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Allison SmithAlison is a PhD Student in Social Justice Education at OISE University of Toronto. Her research interests include Black disabled childhoods, Black girlhood and antiracist early childhood education.
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Dr. Nnenna OdimDr. Odim is a graduate of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Early Childhood Education department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her experience as an early childhood teacher guides her exploration into the ways young children negotiate and resist inequity in their environment. Her research focuses on socio-cultural influences, Indigenous knowledges, and inquiry-driven interactions in early childhood spaces.
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Dr. Pablo MontesDr. Montes is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies at Texas Christian University and received their Ph.D. in Cultural Studies in Education from the University of Texas at Austin (Native American and Indigenous Studies and Mexican American and Latine Studies). Their main research interests are at the intersection of queer settler colonialism, indigeneity, and Land education. Their current project emphasizes the transformational learning spaces that Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans Indigenous educators create alongside their Indigenous community, with Land, and other Queer Indigenous people.
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Magdalin LivingstonCurrently located in the North-West region of the Greater Toronto Area, Magdalin Livingston is a visual artist, passionate educator, and above all else, a constant crafter. She holds a Masters of Teaching degree from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, specializing in the primary/ junior division with additional qualifications in Visual Arts. Livingston has dedicated several years to working with a children’s theatre non-profit, Right Path World Arts, and hopes to continue creative work in the community prioritizing empowerment of BIPOC youth.
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Preeti NayakPreeti is a doctoral student in Curriculum & Pedagogy, at OISE, University of Toronto. Her research looks at the ways in which BIPoC educators can collaboratively navigate pedagogical inquiries on racism when engaging in climate change education. Broadly, she is interested in research on climate justice pedagogies, critiques of racial capitalism and considerations of epistemic justice in curriculum development work.
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Correnda Downey
Correnda is a graduate of the Child Study and Education MA program at the Univesity of Toronto’s Ontario Institute of Studies in Education and the 2022 OISE Leaders and Legends: Emerging Leader Award Recipient. She is an educator specializing in instructional design and culturally relevant pedagogies. Her research interests are within racial literacy and mental health and wellness practices with an emphasis on racialized populations. She founded racialliteracy.ca in 2019 as an intervention in teacher education, it has now grown to a digital community of approximately 3000 committed individuals, groups, and organizations.
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Nicole FranklinNicole is a PhD Student in Social Justice Education at OISE University of Toronto. Her research interests include Black feminist theories of care through critical arts-based research methodologies.
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Past Lab Members |
Rotem RazRotem Raz (RAZ) is a PhD student at OISE, the University of Toronto, program for Language and Literacies Education. Raz’s doctorate research is supporting community based initiatives for Lunaapeew and Anishinaabe languages revitalization, and addressing the place of settler/ non-Indigenous-allies in Indigenous languages revitalization through conversations with community members, and reflections on Raz’s own heritage of Israeli-Hebrew language reclamation.
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JP KingJP King is an artist-educator with a special interest in discard culture, creative systems, and visual communication. He currently teaches within the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, in addition to the Integrated Design program at the Haliburton School of Art + Design. In 2016, the Canada Council for the Arts nominated King for a Governor General's Innovation Award based on his research about how waste shapes the world.
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