The UTM Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office in partnership with UTM’s Connections and Conversation brings you Non-Black IPOC Allyship: Unpacking Anti-Black Sentiments in Communities of Colour. Event Description: Often times when we engage in conversations around racism, it’s viewed from a binary lens – Whites racist towards Blacks; however, anti-Blackness is very pervasive in communities of colour, it shows up…
At Learning Forward Ontario’s Virtual Ignite Session on Sept 30th 2020 jeewan was invited to present.
This webinar happened with Dr. Vidya Shah and Dr. Herveen Singh on June 19th – it was a discussion about how Brown Complicity, Brown Fragility and Brown Privilege often works (at times without people realizing it) to uphold White Supremacy.
Panellists jeewan chanicka (Superintendent Equity, Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression, Toronto District School Board), Natasha Henry (President, Ontario Black History Society), Jhonel Morvan (Education Officer, Ontario Ministry of Education) and Nicholas Ng-A-Fook (Director of Indigenous Education, University of Ottawa), presented a number of unique perspectives about how to deconstruct the historical contexts that have perpetuated barriers for marginalized student groups. view the…
The Behavioural Approaches to diversity (BAD) Conference was an innovative project led by the institute of gender and the economy (GATE) and Behavioural Economics in Action (BEAR), held on September 28, 2018 at Rotman School of Management.