U of T Anti-Racism & Cultural Diversity Office
215 Huron Street, Room 603 M5S 1A2 Toronto, ON, Canada

Announcing our 2018 IDERD Recognition Award Winners Congratulations Marie Laing! Marie is a queer Mohawk scholar of mixed Haudenosaunee and Irish/Scottish/South African settler ancestry. Her family comes from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, and she belongs to the turtle clan. Marie grew up in Kingston, Ontario before moving to Toronto to pursue her bachelor's degree here at UofT. She is currently completing her M.A. in Social Justice Education at OISE.... As an organizer on campus, Marie has taken leadership roles in the planning of many on-campus events that challenge white supremacy through collaborative, inclusive, and accessible education on anti-Indigenous racism, including the Standing Rock Syllabus Reading Group and the State Violence and Indigenous Resistance film screening series. As a member of OISE’s Indigenous Education Network, Marie works collaboratively with Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members to increase the presence and vitality of Indigenous education at OISE, and is working on the creation of an archive commemorating the organization’s 30-year history and impact on the University. As a scholar, Marie’s thesis research centres on the experiences of young trans, two-spirit and queer Indigenous people and the ways in which they use and understand the term two-spirit. Nominated by: Eve Tuck, Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities; Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies OISE, U of T

Announcing our 2018 IDERD Recognition Award Winners Congratulations Dr. Janelle Joseph! Dr. Janelle Joseph is an educator, researcher, published author, and academic administrator committed to anti-racist academic discourse and activism at the University of Toronto. In her scholarly work and teaching, Janelle examines the joys and complexities of Afro-diaspora cultures, multiculturalism, and experiences of discrimination in recreational, educational, and criminal justice sett...ings. Her newest book Sport in the Black Atlantic, highlights the transnational experiences of Caribbean Canadians and gathered stories that had previously received very little academic exposure or theoretical understanding. Her support of many University of Toronto multi-partner anti-racism initiatives, including the Health Sciences Summer Mentorship Program and Hurdle to Success, started in 2013. She has explored the experiences of racialized and Indigenous athletes, coaches and students and created a critical document on which the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education based its current Task Force on Race and Indigeneity. She played a vocal role as presenter and facilitator in many symposia leading up to this Task Force on the St. George and UTSC campuses, and discussed the issues with colleagues across Canada in a CIUT Radio Broadcast of Hart House Conversations. Through her previous roles as a Learning Strategist and now as the Director of Academic Success and Assistant Director at the Transitional Year Programme, Dr. Joseph demonstrates a commitment not only to supporting Black and Indigenous students to access postsecondary education by exposing the hidden curriculum, but also to shifting dominant cultures to that students can exist on campuses where they are supported by greater numbers of Indigenous and racialized faculty and staff. Nominated by: Michelle Brownrigg, Senior Director Co-Curricular Education Hart House #uoftiderd2018

Congratulations to The Black Medical Students Association! Leo Eromonsele Akioyamen, Azza Eisa, Nathan Tai Griffiths, Chika Stacy Oriuwa, Cheyanne Reed, Rahel Tefera Zewude The Black Medical Students' Association (BMSA) is a Medical Society affiliated club run by pre-clerkship students at University of Toronto, established in 2000. Our mission is support and encourage students from communities that are under-represented in medicine, primarily students from African and Caribbe...an backgrounds. We aim to assist these students to become successful medical school applicants through student outreach events, resource dissemination, mentorship and community building. The BMSA have been involved in Running independent outreach events and high school visits to inspire future Black physician and raising national awareness around underrepresentation of Black students in medicine. Collaborating with the Faculty of Medicine in a. Outreach work with the Summer Mentorship Program b. Equitable Admissions Procedures- as members of the Black Canadian Admissions Subcommittee c. Student support to ensure a more inclusive experience Nominated by: Ike Okafor, Senior Officer, Service Learning and Diversity Outreach, Office of Health Professions Student Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, UofT

Happening in 2 hours! Come out for fruitful discussion and snacks!! :) We will engage in a dialogue about how Islamophobia impacts brown bodies, both Muslim and non-Muslim, in different yet similar ways. We will discuss the often violent and divisive consequences of this racialized bigotry, and ways of building solidarity among brown folks of different faith communities.

Increasingly, students, faculty and staff are challenging the persistence of racism in post-secondary institutions. What further measures must be taken to accelerate and embed institutional antiracism change? The 2018 IDERD Conference provides an engaging space for critical dialogue, keynotes, panels and roundtable discussions, as it takes up the theme of antiracism change in post secondary institutions Register... www.2018uoftiderd.eventbrite.ca Registration Closes March 16th! See more