Aakriti Kapoor (she/her) is a first-generation immigrant settler on the traditional territories of the Anishinabewaki, Huron-Wendat, and Haudenosaunee peoples. An educator and researcher, Aakriti's interests lie in issues of anti-colonial education policy, anti-oppression, and solidarity building. Aakriti is an experienced researcher and has published on topics of community-based research, neoliberalism, education policy, anti-colonialism, Black studies, […]
Lydie Koblan Huberson is a doctoral candidate in Industrial Relations at Université Laval. Her research focuses on the structural barriers and opportunities for Black women accessing executive positions in the public sector, comparing France and Quebec. With a background in human resources and organizational development, Lydie combines academic rigor with practical expertise to explore issues […]
Behnaz Mirzai is Professor of Middle Eastern history at Brock University, Canada and Senior Guest Researcher at the Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn. She was Visiting Professor at Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill university in 2024 and Visiting Professor at Unité de recherches Migrations et société URMIS, Université Côte d'Azur […]
Hadje Cresencio Sadje is an experienced human rights activist who has worked with local, regional, national, and international organizations. Aside from being a human rights activist, he is also dedicated to decolonizing Christian philosophical and theological perspectives. He received his MA in Crosscultural Theology from Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands, as well as a […]
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 […]
Kai Butterfield is an artist, Ontario Certified Teacher, and PhD student in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto). Their doctoral research employs hauntology as a methodological approach to assess the ways that antiblackness has shaped restorative justice theory in North America. Hauntology, a methodology […]
Azzeddine Tajjiou is a Moroccan researcher, translator, and doctoral candidate in Comparative Postcolonial African Literatures at Mohammed I University. He specializes in African literary studies, focusing on 20th and 21st-century African literature and its global diasporas. His work critically examines cultural identity, colonial legacies, and societal transformation through a multidisciplinary lens, integrating comparative literature, cultural […]
Michelle is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Université de Montréal. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Law (Université des Antilles – Guadeloupe) and a Master’s in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations, Cooperation, and Development (Université du Québec à Montréal). Her Master’s research focused on departmentalization and independence in […]
Dr. Vanessa S. Oliveira is a specialist in African history and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. She teaches courses on early and modern Africa, European colonialism, research methodology, and women, gender and sexualities. Dr. Oliveira earned a PhD in history from York University and was […]
Juanita De Barros is a Professor in the Department of History at McMaster University and the director of the Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice. She is the former president of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She did her PhD at York University and was a DuBois-Mandela-Rodney fellow at the […]