Youth, School, and Community Book Launch, Critical Research Conversation, and Celebration!
4:00 - Critical Research Conversation
Camisha Sibblis, University of Windsor
Camisha Sibblis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor. An inter-disciplinary researcher, Sibblis also draws on her experience working with youth deemed 鈥榓t risk鈥� as a school social worker, child protection worker, and as a clinician assessing the effects of anti-Black racism on the lives and mental health of convicts for courts to consider upon sentencing.
Andy Dang, Griffin Centre
Andy Dang is a social worker very much committed to the craft. He works at the Griffin Centre - a mental health organization in Toronto, ON.
Alison Fisher, York University
Alison Fisher defended her doctoral degree from York University鈥檚 Faculty of Education in February, 2020. She is also a Toronto District School Board teacher, social justice activist and cat guardian.
Naomi Nichols, 涩里番
Naomi Nichols is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at 涩里番. Much of her work focuses on better understanding the policy and institutional relations that shape status quo patterns of inequality. In 2019 (August), the University of Toronto Press released Nichols鈥� second sole-authored book: Youth, School and Community: Participatory Institutional Ethnographies.
Facilitator: Jayne Malenfant
Jayne Malenfant is from Kapuskasing, Ontario. She is a PhD Candidate at 涩里番鈥檚 Faculty of Education. Her research focuses on issues of institutional access for precariously housed and homeless youth, with a focus on schools, and draws on her own experiences of housing instability has a teen.
5:30 - Celebration
Food, books, drinks, cake!
