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Karen Murray
Toronto District School Board
Canada
Karen Murray is currently a Centrally Assigned Principal for Equity, Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression in the Toronto District School Board. She engages in working with educators, administrators and Superintendents on deepening their understanding in these areas. Karen leads the TDSB initiative Black Students Success & Excellence from K-12.
Nicole West-Burns
Toronto District School Board
Canada
Nicole West-Burns, PhD is a professional development consultant on equity issues. For over a decade, Nicole has worked with school boards across the province of Ontario. Nicole is currently a co-facilitator, research partner and critical friend with Toronto District School Board in multiple initiatives related to Black student achievement.
Stephanie De Jesus
Toronto District School Board
Canada
Stefanie De Jesus received her doctorate from Western University and is currently a Research Coordinator with the Toronto District School Board. Her work involves researching and evaluating policies, programs, and services in areas such as equity and anti-racism, early years, professional learning and support models, staff well-being and student discipline.
Sarah Armson
Toronto District School Board
Canada
David H. Cameron
Toronto District School Board
Canada
David Cameron is a Senior Research Manager at the Toronto District School Board. He is an educator and education policy sociologist with research interests in school change and the interrelationship between educational policy intentions or design and peoples’ experiences within policy frameworks.
Aakriti Kapoor
Toronto District School Board
Canada
Aakriti Kapoor is a researcher and educator with interests in anti-racist education policy and knowledge mobilization of equity literacy. She currently works as a Research and Information Analyst at the Toronto District School Board and is also a Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholar at Queen’s University’s Faculty of Education.
Carl James
York University
Canada
Carl E. James holds the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora in the Faculty of Education at York University, with research interests in examination of how race, ethnicity, gender, class and citizenship/immigrant status intersect and mediate accessible and equitable opportunities and outcomes in education and employment for racialized youth – Black youth in particular.
Beatrice Anane-Bediakoh
York University
Canada
Beatrice Anane-Bediakoh is a fourth-year Ph.D. Sociology candidate at York University. Her academic work is motivated by her unwavering commitment to the collective struggle for Black freedoms and life forms. Specifically, her dissertation focuses on racialized spatial practices of concealment and boundary-making that obscures Black personhood(s) in Toronto and the Region of Peel.