Members
Equity Advisor
Sara Pierre
Sara Pierre is the Employment Equity Advisor. She supports the recruitment, hiring, retention and promotion of underrepresented administrative and support staff.
Professor
Adelle Blackett
Ad. E., Professor at the Faculty of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development. Her interests are in transnational labour law, slavery and the law, the regulation of domestic work, law of international organizations, and Critical Race Theory.
Founding Convener
(Summer/ Fall 2020)
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Advisory Committee Member
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Associate
Claudine Bordenave
Associate of the Career Development Office at the Faculty of Law. She specializes in communications and events management, working closely with students associations and legal employers.
Winter 2021 Convener
Diversity Officer
Pascale Caidor
Diversity Officer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. She oversees the development and implementation of diversity initiatives in the Social Accountability and Community Engagement Office. She is co-chair of the Racialized and Ethnic Persons group (Joint Board Senate Committee on Equity).
Equity Program Administrator
Charlene Lewis-Sutherland
Equity Education Program Administrator at Teaching and Learning Services. Her areas of focus are the creation and support of equity centered living and learning environments
Associate Professor at the School of Social Work. She researches refugee and immigrant issues, particularly refugee resettlement, sponsorship and reunification, as well as Indigenous social work education and Indigenous social and educational policies.
Course Lecturer
Sabrina N. Jafralie
Course Lecturer in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Her teaching and research interests include Teacher Education, Religious Literacy, and Anti-Racism Education. She is a social justice activist and the co-founder of the Centre for Civic Religious Literacy (CCRL).
Associate Professor
Nicole Ives
Assistant Professor
Dr. Anita Brown-Johnson
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Associate Member of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University, Interim Chief of the MUHC Department of Family Medicine and Director of the Secondary Care Division. She specializes in optimizing care transitions and continuing complex care for elderly and other vulnerable patients.
Advisory Committee Member
Associate Professor
Loydie Jerome-Majewska
Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and co-Director of the Centre for Research in Reproduction and Development (CRRD). Her research is focused on identifying the molecular and genetic causes of abnormal placental development and craniofacial malformations in newborn infants.
Winter 2021 Convener
Professor
Fackson Mwale
Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Surgery. He is also a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute and past President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society. His research focuses on the repair of degenerated intervertebral disc and osteoarthritis.
Associate Professor
Khalid Mustafa Medani
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for Islamic Studies, and Chair of the African Studies Program. His research and teaching interests include African politics, Islam and politics, informal economies, Middle East politics, civil conflict and social movements in the Horn of Africa.
Equity Advisor
Shanice Yarde
Equity Education Advisor in the Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic). Her portfolio focuses on anti-oppression and anti-racism education and she is primarily available for workshop facilitation and advising support for faculty and staff.
Senior Development Officer
Joy Bennett
In her role as Senior Development Officer, she is charged with strengthening alumni relations with the University, while ensuring the financial sustainability of programming at the Desautels Faculty of Management through philanthropic donations for student awards, bursaries, scholarships and infrastructure.