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Melissa P. McLetchie

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"Challenging and Eliminating Anti-Black Racism in Graduate Education"

Organizers: Prof. Lorna Erwin, Prof. Sylvia Bawa, Melissa McLetchie, Beatrice Anane-Bediakoh, Bahareh Banaei

Facilitated by:  Dr. Notisha Massaquoi

Place: York University, Toronto, Ontario

Date: February 18, 2022


The objective of this half-day workshop was to expand faculty and student understanding of anti-Black racism, deepen understandings of the historic and current realities of anti-Black racism within research and learn from personal perspectives and experiences. Participants were asked to consider the commitment, courage, and creativity that will be required to dismantle anti-Black racism and implement equity practices within the institution. 


"The Rose That Grew From Concrete"

"BIPOC Graduate Student Experiences at York"

"BIPOC Graduate Student Experiences at York"

Organizers: Dr. Adam Ellis and Melissa McLetchie

Place: Centennial College, Toronto, Ontario

Date: March 19, 2021


This full-day workshop addressed the importance of critiquing colonial terminologies and academic practices that stigmatize racialized people and their communities. We discussed using a trauma-based approach when interacting with racialized "clients" within colonial apparatuses like child "protection" services, law enforcement and criminal punishment systems, and social services. We also discussed the collateral consequence of State violence and intervention. 

"BIPOC Graduate Student Experiences at York"

"BIPOC Graduate Student Experiences at York"

"BIPOC Graduate Student Experiences at York"

  

Organizers: Melissa McLetchie, Bahar Banaei, Fati Gharibi, Grace Lao and Jade Da Costa 

Place: York University, Toronto, Ontario

Date: May 10, 2021


The objective of this three-hour workshop was to provide a safe environment for BIPOC graduate students to learn about the history and legacy of systemic racism in Canada and the role of academia and its institutions in perpetuating anti-blackness and other forms of racism within these colonial spaces. 

A second objective was to discuss barriers along with various strategies and potential ways of addressing issues that may range from the informal to the formal and to develop recommendations. 

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