Session Time description
Breakfast and networking 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM  Enjoy coffee and breakfast with symposium participants

Opening Ceremony

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

 

   

Opening Remarks – Gillian Nycum, University Registrar and Executive Director.

    Yolande E. Chan, Dean, Faculty of Management.
    Ann Deer, Associate Director of Indigenous Initiatives.
    String Quartet featuring Justin Almazan with an introduction from Thomassina Phillips.
Plenary Session 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM  
    Helping in A Good Way: Building effective and equitable relationships with under-represented learners 
Lunch and Networking  12:00 PM - 1:10 PM Join us for lunch and networking in the ballroom
Workshop: 1

1:10 PM – 2:15 PM

 

   

Making knowledge accessible and research relevant to youth

    EDI at McGill: Getting our house in order before inviting others in
    Kitchen Table Conversations on Indigenous Outreach
Workshop: 2 2:20 PM – 3:20 PM  
    Improving Black Access to University  
    EDI in Student-led Outreach groups
    Sociocultural sensitivity working with newcomer and refugees
Closing ceremony 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM   
    Introduction to Keynote Speaker – Veronica Amberg
    Keynote Speech – Dr. Sarah Pash 
    Closing Remarks – Seeta Ramdass 

 


McGill University is on land that long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst
Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge
and thank the diverse Indigenous people whose footsteps have marked this territory on which
peoples of the world now gather.
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