Chef Bashir Munye is a Somali-born, Italian-raised culinary educator, food advocate, and co-founder of the African Food Study Centre. With over 25 years of experience, he is committed to decolonizing culinary practices and promoting food sovereignty. Bashir has served as a culinary professor at George Brown College, where he designed inclusive curricula and mentored future […]
Clifton Grant is a Graduate Student in the Department of Social Legal Studies at York University and an Executive Member of the Harriet Tubman Institute. His research interests explore the intersectionality of race, education and criminality primarily by exploring the "school to prison pipeline" that disproportionately impacts marginalized and racialized communities. The Canadian mosaic has […]
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Lovejoy is Founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University, and has held the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-2015). He was a member of the UNESCO “Slave […]
Molade Osibodu is an assistant professor of education at York University. Her research interests include understanding how to make mathematics humanizing for Sub-Saharan African youth; harnessing mathematics education to redress injustices related to race (particularly anti-Blackness), equity, and power; and exploring African immigrant and refugee math experiences; and African indigenous mathematics practices. Dr. Osibodu situates […]
Dr Sylvia Bawa is a global sociologist and tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at York University in Canada with expertise in human rights, development, gender and globalization. With immense experience working with international and local organizations and groups on development, social justice and human rights issues, her expertise in these areas have been recognized through […]
Amrita Daftary is Assistant Professor at the School of Global Health, York University. She applies social sciencemethods and frameworks to study TB stigma and treatment adherence, particularly in the contexts of TB-HIV comorbidity and drug resistant TB. She contributes to the design and evaluation of complex interventions to informequity and person oriented approaches to programming […]
Beauty is an interdisciplinary scholar in sociolinguistics and health policy and equity passionate about mobility and social justice. Her sociolinguistic work has allowed her conduct research on language, migration, and social change. Her work focuses on Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town, drawing on their everyday lived experiences as immigrants to examine their social positioning as […]
Dr Jessica Braimoh is a critical sociologist whose teaching and research interests include the interrelation between race, class, gender and criminalization; socio-legal processes and organizing institutions (e.g., social welfare, education); and the experiences of “at-risk” populations. Guided by principles of social justice, Jessica's research uses a social justice lens to investigate the institutional processes by […]