Associate Professor, DISE, McGill University Mindy R. Carter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Canada. Her research focuses on teacher identity, and on using the arts to foster culturally responsible pedagogies. Carter’s “CREATE: Creativity Research in Education using Artful inquiry for societal Transformation and intercultural Exchange” research program has received Fonds de recherche du Quebec (2015-2018) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funding (2017-2020). She is currently the Vice-President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education’s Curriculum Studies special interest group and the Chair of the Artful Inquiry Research Group (AIRG) at McGill (2020).

Assistant Professor, McGill University. Dr. Emmanuel Tabi is an assistant professor of Black/African Studies in Education.  He received his doctorate from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His work examines how race, gender and class dynamics intersect within Toronto’s urban arts centres and how they are performed through various forms of cultural production such as spoken word poetry and rapping.

Claudia Mitchell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University and an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. At McGill she is the director of the Institute for Human Development and Well-being and the founder and director of the Participatory Cultures Lab.  Her research cuts across youth studies, girlhood studies, teacher education, visual methodologies and social change. Much of her current research working with Indigenous youth in Canada and South Africa focuses on  participatory youth-led ‘from the ground up’ policy dialogue to address gender inequalities.  She is the Editor-in-Chief of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 

P. Lantz Artist in Residence in the Faculty of Education, McGill University. Dayna McLeod is the 2021-2022 P. Lantz Artist in Residence in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. She is also a Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture research-creation postdoctoral fellow. Dayna earned a PhD from the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University. She is part-time faculty at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University, and at Concordia University in various Humanities and Fine Arts departments. www.daynarama.com  

Sabi Kamilah Hinkson was born, and raised, in Montreal, Canada, to her Trinidadian parents, who migrated to Canada over 45 years ago. Hinkson is currently a middle school Science & Technology teacher at Lower Canada College (LCC) in Montreal. Hinkson holds a Bachelor of Science from Concordia University (double-majored in Biochemistry and Theology with a minor in Multidisciplinary Studies in Science: Scientific Research) and recently completed her Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning Science & Technology at McGill University. Hinkson’s research focuses on the underrepresentation of Blacks in STEM and the foundation of her research is a critical analysis of her very own journey through the STEM pipeline: through this analysis, she began to understand how racism, more specifically different forms of microaggressions, negatively influence Blacks in STEM. For Hinkson, with a greater awareness and understanding of systemic racism within the STEM terrain came the urge to raise awareness of these injustices and challenge these very systems that continuously work against Blacks in STEM. 

Jen Hinkkala PhD candidate and sessional lecturer at McGill University. Jen holds a BA, a B.Ed. and a Masters of Music Education from Western University. Jen’s dissertation research focuses on understanding self-employed arts teachers work and well-being. Additional research projects include the role of belonging in educational settings, employment after postsecondary education, and the impact of emotional abuse and familial neglect on thriving an educational attainment. Jen runs an international support group for estranged adults and is engaged in advocacy for victims of family violence and adult estrangement.

Marta Cotrim is a Ph.D. student at the DISE – Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. She holds MA in Dance Anthropology from the University of Surrey and diplomas in Theatre Studies from Paris 8, and Performance from the School of New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Her doctoral research focuses on Critical Posthuman and New Materialism Theory and Drama/Theatre Pedagogies in its application in Teacher Education in relation to Equity Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) ethics. After being trained as a theatre actress and contemporary dancer and having worked internationally for many years, Marta has taught 15 years to Drama/Theatre in primary and secondary schools and has lived in 9 different countries. She has three children and is original from São Paulo, Brazil.