Everyone is welcome to join the University of Waterloo’s Ujima Black History Month research and learning event focused on Black experience in Canada.
Hosted by Akua Asare-Anim, international recruitment, Registrars’ Office, with talks by Nancy Eleanor Reeves, associate director, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-racism on equity and social work, Dr. Clive Forrester, Department of English Language and Literature, on Caribbean language and culture in Canada, and Aaron Francis, PhD candidate in Global Governance on Vintage Black Canada.
No sign-in or registration required.
About the speakers
Akua Asare-Anim is a Waterloo graduate who completed her undergraduate degree in International Development. She is currently an International Recruitment Specialist in the Registrars Office and is focussed on increasing representation of individuals who identify as Black among our undergraduate student population.
Clive Forrester is a continuing lecturer in English who specializes in forensic linguistics, which combines aspects of the law with linguistic theory. His research includes courtroom discourse analysis, Creole linguistics, the relationship between language, gender and sex, and language advocacy/policy.
Aaron Francis is completing his doctorate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs specializing in global political economy. As a founder and curator, Aaron has exhibited works from his Vintage Black Canada initiative at the BAND Gallery Toronto, the Gladstone Hotel, and the Contact Photography Festival, and more.
Nancy Eleanor Reeves is a native of Liberia who arrived in Canada as a war refugee in 2000. She has wealth of experience as a college professor, social worker, clinical therapist, and human rights advocate. She is completing a PhD in Social Work Education focused on the trauma of war and its implication for social work education and practice.
