Asha Edwin is an interdisciplinary researcher and doctoral candidate at Brock University. A Black feminist scholar who approaches theory as praxis, her research and creative practice span embodiment, leisure, sport, culture, aesthetics, and visual media, including photography and video. Grounded in a commitment to collective liberation and embodied experience, her work explores Black women’s wellness […]
Dr. Solomon Boakye-Yiadom is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University and Director of the Process–Structure–Properties–Performance of Materials Research Group. He holds a BEng in Aerospace Engineering and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. His interdisciplinary research focuses on advanced materials design, artificial intelligence and machine […]
Dr. Kevin J. Hales is an internationally respected educator, public scholar, author, filmmaker, consultant, and podcaster. With an extensive academic background in communication studies and Africology, Dr. Hales offers a unique perspective on the lives of everyday African-descended people worldwide. Hales studies ethnicity (“race”), Africanity, social justice, rurality, intercultural communication, and nonverbal communication. Professor Hales […]
Filipe Robles is a first-year PhD student in the Social Political Thought program. His research concerns how antiblackness both challenges and authorizes political solidarity across social movements. Keywords: antiblackness, solidarity, social movements
Adia Giddings (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of History at York University. She received her Master's in History at Concordia University. Her MA research focused on the labour and immigration activism of the Household Workers' Association of Montreal. She specifically focused on the labour organizing of Caribbean household workers and the support […]
Dr. Karine Coen-Sanchez is an independent sociologist and Founder and Executive Director of the Coen-Sanchez Research & Policy Institute (CSRPI), a federally incorporated Canadian not-for-profit research institute advancing interdisciplinary research, public policy, governance, and institutional equity. Her research examines institutional governance, race, migration, identity, and public policy. She is the developer of Human Systems Mediation™, […]
Dr. Oladotun Larry Anifowose is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Entrepreneurship, School of Logistics and Innovation Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Nigeria, and an Associate Fellow of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diaspora at York University, Canada. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University […]
Dr. Shaurya Prakash is an Assistant Professor in the Programme of Social Work, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Assam down town University, Guwahati, Assam, where he has been serving since January 2026. He is a scholar and practitioner with expertise in occupational stress, burnout, women's welfare, community health, mental health, and social work […]
Sara Gallagher is a scholar of Black American literature and history, specializing in Black life in the Midwest and Western United States. She is the author of Black Wests, a study of Black settlement, cultural production, and regional identity in the American West. Her current research project, Unsettling the Heartland, examines Black migration, homesteading, and […]
I am an undergraduate student in Political Science at York University with research interests in international law, corporate governance, and global political economy. My work examines how legal and economic systems shape global inequalities, with a particular focus on the structural conditions that contribute to the underdevelopment of the Global South.