Alanah is a PhD candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at York University whose work sits at the intersections of race, education, sport and systems of power (with a particular focus on racial and athletic capitalism). On the project, she serves as a research assistant for the Toronto Team. 

Anthony is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Studies at McGill University. His current research interests are in cultural production, racialized surveillance, alternative pedagogical practices, and the relationship between multiculturalism and the formation of race.  On the project, Anthony is a research assistant across the Montreal, Halifax, and Toronto teams

Bryan is a PhD student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education at McGill University. His research interests include jazz and Black Studies. He is a research assistant on the Montreal arm of the project. 

Dr.Cromwell is a strategist and educator whose work integrates critical theory with community-engaged practice. His research focuses on strengthening the social service sector and advancing socially just systems and policies. On the project, he serves as the project coordinator for the Toronto Team.

Emmanuel (PhD) is a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include both Educational Leadership and Black Studies. He is currently examining Black communities’ experiences of and responses to anti-Blackness within and beyond formal education system in Canada. He is a member of the research project team at the Toronto site.

Erica is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her teaching and research interests intersect with motherhood studies, maternal grief, critical race studies, black feminist studies, and feminist-informed peacebuilding interventions. With a focus on women’s mass mobilization to end the Liberian civil war (1989-2003), her research examines the role of gender construction in war, post-conflict recovery, and women’s multi-pronged activism to build a culture of peace and gender equity. Learn More