Black Students Talk With Black Profs!
The “Black Students Talk with Black Profs!” series is an opportunity for African Black Caribbean UTSG students to meet each other and relatable African Black Caribbean professors and staff, and discuss how to thrive as a Black student at a predominantly white institution.
Event Details
Presenting African Black Caribbean Clubs:
Afro Dance & Culture Club U of T;
Black Future Lawyers UTSG;
Black Students’ Association;
Black Students in Design;
Caribbean Studies Students Union;
Connections: A Group for Black Women.
Faculty and Staff Panel:
Dr. Janelle Joseph is an award-winning Assistant Professor in Critical Studies of Race in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto. She is Founder and Director of the Indigeneity, Diaspora, Equity, and Anti-racism in Sport (IDEAS) Research Lab and author / co-editor of three books related to race, sport, education, and Black communities in Canada.
Dr. Andrea S. Allen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies. Her research has addressed matters of race, sexuality, gender, violence, and religion in Brazil and the African Diaspora. Through a focus on LGBTQ Brazilians, especially Afro-Brazilian lesbians, her work explores the effects of marginalization from an embodied perspective.
Dr. Maydianne Andrade is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is also the President and co-Founder of the Canadian Black Scientists Network (CBSN). Maydianne has 20 years of experience in science research, teaching, and outreach. As Founder and Co-Chair of the Toronto Initiative for Diversity & Equity (TIDE), she has been leading inclusive conversations and workshops regarding equity and bias for the past 10 years.
Dr. Nisrin Elamin, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, received her PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University. Her doctoral research was an ethnographic examination of the ways Saudi and Emirati corporate investments in land reconfigured everyday social relations between landless and landholding stakeholders in central Sudan. Nisrin has published scholarly articles and op-eds. Before pursuing her PhD, Nisrin spent over a decade working in youth development, organizing, and resource rights in the US and in Tanzania.
Sophie Harding currently works in Undergraduate Medical Education Enrolment Services (UME ES) as the Associate Registrar, Admissions. She has over 20 years of experience in student recruitment, admissions, and community engagement at the University of Toronto and York University. In addition to Sophie’s passion for recruitment and student success, Sophie is committed to advancing EDI within / outside of the University and integrates EDI into all aspects of her professional work. Sophie has published two books on the health and wellness of Black, Indigenous and Women of Colour.
Dr. Pablo D. Herrera Veitia has his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St. Andrews and is a recipient of the Nasir Jones Fellowship. His research focuses on what it means to be Afro-Cuban in post-socialist Havana and follows divinatory figures in the Odù Ifá literary corpus. He is also a Afro-Cuban rap music producer and has collaborated on several major academic research projects on rap and reggaeton music in Havana.
Modele Kuforiji is the new Student Life Coordinator, Black Student Engagement, with Mentorship & Peer Programs in the Division of Student Life. His role focusses on facilitating and creating pathways in which Black students can engage in student life on campus in a way that feels accessible. Modele did his undergrad at U of T and completed a Masters at the University of Amsterdam, where he continued to use his Afro Latino identity lens to explore ideas of “Space and Place” and what that means for those who are creating it.
Dr. Tamorah Lewis is a physician-scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is the Division Head of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology and leads a translational research program in neonatal precision therapeutics.
Guinsly Mondésir is a Virtual Reference Librarian at Scholars Portal, Robarts Library. He loves libraries! His dream is to have enough funds at the age of retirement to have a library building under his name in a Canadian University. If he can make it, he is working to give as much encouragement to anyone he encounters in his life to take on their vision upon him / herself.
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