Tka C. Pinnock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political economy, political ecology, globalization and critical development studies where she explores the everyday politics of life work. Her dissertation project explores the constructions of indigeneity among African-descended marginalized workers as […]
A native from Bahia, Fabio Silva, aka Fabio Cascadura, is a Brazilian-Canadian MA in History at York University. His MRP is a biographical study of the slave trader and Luso-Brazilian military officer Caetano Mauricio Machado (c.1750–1807) and his business with Bight of Benin.His interests encompass economy, ethnography and culture related to Western Africa from the […]
Collette Murray is a multi-award-winning artist-scholar, dance educator, cultural arts programmer and arts consultant. Murray pursues a Ph.D. in Dance Studies at York University focusing on dance education and anti-racist dance pedagogies. Murray’s publications, advocacy and arts research centre around cultural arts education, decolonization in the arts and education sectors, and in amplifying African diasporic […]
Violet Ferreira Sutherland is a doctoral student at York University. Her research interest is in Policy and Banking in the social-solidarity economy (SSE). Violet holds an MBA in Finance (Western Michigan University, USA), MPhil in Gender and Development Studies (University of the West Indies, Mona), Post Graduate Certification in Project Management (Centennial College, Canada), and […]
Dhouha Triki is a fourth-year doctoral student interested in feminist agency and revolutionary struggles against state feminisms in the Arab region of North Africa. Her research aims to conceptualize the manner women's agency and struggle for liberation in this region transcends, extends, and complicates the political state post-colonial identity and the ghostly residue of colonialism […]
Chidinma Umahi Nwankwo is second-year Master’s candidate in Interdisciplinary studies. Her MA thesis traces sexual violence in conflict as a continuum of violence against women and girls in northern Nigeria. Her research interest includes law and development, international human rights, Immigration and refugee law, international security, and gender and women’s studies. Chidinma graduated from Tulane […]
Catherine Mutune is a second-year master’s student in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her SSHRC-funded research project investigates the lived experiences of recent East African immigrant women who came to Canada under the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWK) and the challenges they encounter socially, economically, and politically. Her research work is inspired by her experiences as an African […]
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 […]
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.