Annette Boodram

Annette Boodram holds the positions of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Program Manager at York University where she has the responsibility for achieving equity in all aspects of the employment life cycle so that no individual – applicant and/or employee shall be denied employment opportunities or benefits for reasons unrelated to performance. Annette received her Bachelor of Arts, from York University in Sociology, a post-graduate certificate in Human Resources Management from Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology and an Osgoode certificate in Human Rights Theory and Practice. Annette has experience educating and leading various senior teams in the process of employment equity and talent acquisition and retention. Annette is passionate about equity and diversity and strives to ensure inclusion is at the forefront of strategic decisions in the workplace.

Abigail Vogus

Abigail Vogus, SIRI Specialist, supports major awards and nominations within the Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives unit in the Office of Research Services at York University. She has over a decade of research and grant management experience. Prior to joining York, she served as the first Research Facilitator for the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and as a project manager and analyst at Abt Associates on USAID-funded global health systems strengthening programs, managing programs in India, Ukraine and the Eastern Caribbean among others. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Washington and is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ukraine 2004-2006).

Carl James

Carl E. James holds the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora in the Faculty of Education, York University, Toronto, where he is also the Senior Advisor in Equity and Representation in the Office of the VP Equity, People and Culture. His research interests include examination of the schooling and educational experiences, performance, and trajectories of racialized youth. And in his work on equity and inclusivity, he explores the ways in which race and its intersection with gender, class, citizenship and other identify constructs – mediated by accessible and equitable opportunities – account for the lived experiences and attainments of racialized Canadians, particularly Black youth. His most recent book is: Colour Matters: Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth.

Denielle A Elliott

Denielle A. Elliott is a socio-cultural anthropologist cross appointed to Anthropology and Social Science and the Graduate Program Director of the Science and Technology Studies at York. She is currently working on two projects: an ethnography of traumatic brain injuries and a second project that explores Canadian scientists in transnational microbiology research. She is co-editor of A Different Kind of Ethnography (UTP, 2017) and the author of Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya: Stories from an African Scientist (Routledge, 2018).

Evan Light

Evan Light is an associate professor in the Communications Program at Glendon College, York University. He does research to democratize public policy in the realms of surveillance, privacy, and communications technology.

Ethel Tungohan

Ethel Tungohan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts, and Activism. Her research examines immigration policy and migrant social movements, particularly as it pertains to migrant workers. She is a strong proponent of socially-engaged research methodologies, including Participatory Action Research (PAR).

Jane Heffernan

Jane Heffernan is a Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, and an inaugural York Research Chair Tier II. Her research focus is in Mathematical Biology and Infectious Disease Modelling. She has recently served on the Boards of Directors of the Society for Mathematical Biology, and the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society. She is currently a co-Director of the Canadian Centre for Disease Modelling.

Maleknaz Nayebi

Maleknaz (she/her) is an assistant professor at Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research is on the intersection of Data science and software engineering. Maleknaz has been working on software open innovation with a focus on the platform mediated software products.

Raymond A. Mar

Dr. Mar received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and his lab investigates how imagined experiences might affect how we think, feel, and behave in the real-world, with a particular focus on how stories engage our imagination (e.g., novels, Netflix). He also has an interest in how to best teach research methods and statistics, having authored the 3rd Canadian Edition of “Methods in Behavioral Research” and created a set of tutorials to teach R to students (remindery.info.yorku.ca).

Susan Dion

Dr. Susan Dion is a Two-Spirit Potawatomi-Lenape scholar with mixed Irish-French Ancestry who has been working in the field of Indigenous education for over thirty years. Dion’s research interests include the social and political contexts of education; disrupting memories of Indigenous-Canadian Relations; and urban Indigenous education.