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Brittany Luby

Associate Professor | University of Guelph

Indigenous Treaty Rights; Indigenous food sovereignty; Indigenous activism; Writing for reconciliation; Experiential learning; Indigenizing the academy

Dr. Josephine Etowa

Full Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa; OHTN Chair in Black Women’s HIV Prevention and Care | Lead Investigator, Collaborative Critical Research for Equity & Transformation in Health (CO-CREATH) Lab; Affiliate Professor, School of International Development and Global Studies; Affiliate Professor, Institute for Science, Society and Policy

health and healthcare, inequities in health and healthcare, diversity in nursing, women's health, midwife, healthcare for Black Canadians, health of Black women and HIV, COVID and healthcare inequities, systemic racism in healthcare, capacity building to respond to Black Canadians' health needs during COVID, impact of COVID-19 on Black communities

Andréa Coutu, she/her/hers

Consultant | Consultant Journal

Entrepreneurship, marketing, business, communications, COVID-19 and remote/virtual work, women in business, parent of children with special needs, special needs policy, advocacy

Prof. Jena McGill

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law - Common Law Section | University of Ottawa

Focused on research related to human rights and equality

Niha Shahzad Chandrarajan

Senior Director of Strategic Planning | Canadian Centre for Women's Empowerment

government policy, gender-based violence, financial abuse, economic abuse, BIPOC, innovation