Melissa McLetchie is a doctoral candidate of Caribbean descent in the Department of Sociology. She grew up in the City of Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario and for over 20 years has been in a relationship with a man who has a history of imprisonment. Melissa uses her experiences of supporting her incarcerated loved one to […]
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 […]
Dr Tamari Kitossa is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brock University. He earned his BA (Hons) and Magisteriate degree at York University and his PhD at OISE/University of Toronto. Research and instructional interests include: Blackness and anti-Blackness; Black masculinities; African Canadian leadership; anti-criminology and counter-colonial criminology; interracial unions; gender, sex and sexuality; race; the sociology […]
Dr Desirée de Jesus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. She holds a PhD from Concordia University and an MA (with Distinction) from Kings College London. Dr de […]
Elaine Coburn is Director of the Centre for Feminist Research and Associate Professor, International Studies at York University's bilingual Glendon College. In addition, through the Faculty of Graduate Studies, she is a member of the Department of Sociology, the Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies and Social and Political Thought at York University. Elaine holds a […]
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 […]
Alvine Boaye Belle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering. Her research interests include: system assurance, assessment of confidence in assurance arguments, assessment of uncertainty in assurance arguments, knowledge representation, cultural awareness, requirement debt, architectural technical debt (ATD), artificial intelligence, and machine learning. She speaks both […]
Vivien is a third-year doctoral student in Human Geography at York University. Her past research focused on biodiversity conservation and wildlife management issues in relation to ecotourism development and has had considerable fieldwork experience in the African nations of Ghana, Ivory Coast and Kenya. Vivien is interested in development that is characterized by sound environmental […]
Margaret is a doctoral student whose research highlights coloniality in contemporary mental health practices and its impacts on Black women in the global North who are diagnosed with schizophrenia in the mental health system. She is also interest in therapeutic community alternatives to carceral mental health practices. Research keywords: Mental health; Black women; schizophrenia
Gertrude Mianda is previous Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University. She is a Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies program at Glendon College and was the Chair of the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University (2011–15). Her research focuses on gender […]