Gracia Dyer-Jalea

Founding Executive Director, Toronto Ward Museum Inc.

Creative leadership, non-profit leadership, participatory action research, community organiser, fundraiser, community-led work, migration stories, citizenship, migration and belonging

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Exploring Toronto's The Ward

From the mid-1800s to the 1950s, thousands of newcomers migrated to a Toronto neighbourhood called The Ward. But the government considered it a slum, and following the Second World War it was bulldozed. Gracia Dyer Jalea, co-founder of the Toronto Ward Museum, talks to Nam Kiwanuka about why stories of The Ward's former residents continue to resonate.

Exhibit tells the story of Toronto's Ward neighbourhood — where ‘everyone seemed to get along’

Toronto StarOnline

URL: https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/10/10/exhibit-tells-the-story-of-torontos-ward-neighbourhood-where-everyone-seemed-to-get-along.html

Exploring Toronto's Diversity Through Food

Huffington PostOnline

URL: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/andrea-chrysanthou/toronto-diversity-food-museum_b_10740832.html

This Art Exhibit Showcases The History of The Ward

TorontoistOnline

URL: https://torontoist.com/2016/12/this-art-exhibit-showcases-the-history-of-the-ward/

Biography

Gracia Dyer Jalea is a community organizer, fundraiser, and the award-winning, Founding Executive Director of the Toronto Ward Museum. While working at Concordia University, she co-authored Mapping Memories: Participatory Media, Place-Based Stories and Refugee Youth. In 2017, Dyer-Jalea received the June Callwood Award from Ontario's Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, and in 2018, was awarded the Ontario Museum Association's Promising Leadership Award. She has also been nominated for an Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants' Award of Excellence for her work on the Toronto Ward Museum.

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