Tameka Samuels-Jones, an assistant professor in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, alongside four of her colleagues, has been named one of this year’s recipients of the Robbins-Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity, a prestigious $100,000 grant from the Government of Canada and its Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat.
The grant aims to increase equity levels in the Canada Research Chairs program and the country’s research ecosystem more broadly. Recipients are nominated by their institutions to lead “bold and potentially game-changing initiatives that will challenge the status quo, spark change and take action to address persistent systemic barriers” within higher education.
The York University initiative is a team effort and it establishes the Black, Indigenous and Latinx Research Laboratory (BILX-Lab) at the Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC), of which Samuels-Jones is co-director.
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