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Dr. Janet McLaughlin

Associate Professor, Health Studies | Wilfrid Laurier University

Janet McLaughlin is an interdisciplinary health equity scholar, with areas of expertise in migrant workers (particularly Latin American and Caribbean agricultural workers in Canada) and autism policy in the Ontario context.

Sandy Hudson

Writer, Community Organizer, Black Lives Matter and Black Legal Action Centre | Podcast Host, Sandy & Nora Talk Politics and Law Student, UCLA Law

racism, education, politics, Canada

Tara Milburn

Founder and CEO | Ethical Swag Inc.

Sustainable business, start-ups, changemaker, conscious business, leadership, branded merchandise, ethical products, values

Dr. Alison Wylie

Professor | University of British Columbia

feminism, archaeology, philosophy of science, theories of evidence, feminist philosophy, collaborative research, archaeologists' collaboration with First Nations communities, research ethics

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Dr. Dana Elizabeth Weiner

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Officer, History Department | Wilfrid Laurier University

US Historian, expert on African American history, activism, debates over rights, citizenship in the US to 1880.