Stephanie Simpson is Director of the Queen's University Human Rights Office. Born in Toronto to Jamaican parents and raised in Mississauga,Stephanie began her human rights career at Queen's in 1996 in the portfolios of Anti-racism Advisor and Education Coordinator. She holds an M.Ed degree and has researched effects of racism and processes of racialization as they affect black youth in smaller urban centres such as Kingston. Stephanie is past Coordinator of Black History Month Kingston! and is a longstanding member of the Black Inmates and Friends Assembly. She currently represents Queen's on the Kingston Immigration Partnership Operations Committee and is past Chair of the Board of Directors of Kingston Employment and Youth Services. She continues to be inspired by the stylish and savvy ways in which black youth everywhere challenge their invisibility and claim their right to belong.
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