Tamanisha J. John

Tamanisha J. John is an Assistant Professor at York University. She is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), Caribbean Solidarity Network (CSN), and the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC).

Shane Martínez

Shane Martínez is a Toronto-based criminal defence and human rights lawyer, and one of the directors of the Canadian branch of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP).

Ibtihal Aboussad

Ibtihal is a community organizer with the “No Azure for Apartheid” campaign, demanding that Microsoft end all contracts with the Israeli military and government.

Layal Shuman

Dr. Layal Shuman (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Design Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the Co-Director of The Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought (SMACT), the Editor-in-Chief of RUBIX, the Co-President of the ARTS SIG in the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies.

Cassandra Blondin Burt

Cassandra Blondin Burt is a Dene two-spirit Journalist, Artist and Earth Medicine Maker. Their work is grounded in the exploration of healing through co-creation with earth and story.

Ameth LO

Ameth LO is a Senegalese-born Pan-africanist militant, residing in Toronto (Canada). He joined GRILA (Group for Research and Initiatives for the Liberation of Africa) in 1993 and became a founding member of the Toronto Chapter, where he regularly hosted its weekly radio show “Amandla!”.

Dr. Chris Harris (Wasun)

Wasun is a revolutionary Hip Hop artist who has released four independent albums in Toronto. Wasun holds a PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education and created the radical adult education institute, Freedom Justice Academy.

Ricky Atkinson

Rick Atkinson was a youth gang leader in the Alexandra Park Projects in the early 1970s. At the age of 17 years, Rick, a victim of COINTELPRO, went to the penitentiary in Kingston. Two years later, Rick founded the Black Inmates and Friends Association (BIFA), Canada’s first Black Inmate support organization.

Norman (Otis) Richmond

Norman (Otis) Richmond, aka Jalali, was born in Arcadia, Louisiana, and grew up in Los Angeles. He left Los Angeles after refusing to fight in Vietnam. He was a founder of the Afro-American Progressive Association (AAPA). Jalali is producer/host for the Diasporic Music show on https://blackpower96.org every Sunday at 2pm ET.

Alessandro Delfanti

Alessandro Delfanti teaches at the University of Toronto, where he researches digital labour and countercultures. He is the author of The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon and, with the Capacitor Collective, of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry.

Eve Saint

Eve is a Wet’suwet’en land defender and mother of two, and a leading organizer in the movement urging RBC to divest from Coastal GasLink and the fossil fuel industry. Eve is the Co-founder and lead co-ordinator of 8th Fire Rising.

Shahinaz Geneid

Shahinaz Geneid (she/they) is an Egyptian-American international human rights lawyer, social science PhD student, and organizer/activist. She is the International Campus Coordinator for the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI),

Nisrin Elamin

Nisrin (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto. She is currently writing a book on land grabs and community resistance to land dispossession in central Sudan.

Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut (USA). He is a specialist in decolonial thought, having published extensively on decolonial ethics, political philosophy, the theory of religion, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of the human sciences.