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Margaret Ofori Asubonteng

rebsl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:58:59 +0000

Margaret Ofori Asubonteng is a Black African Human Resource Management with interests in Black studies, labour, equity, law, student engagement, and community development. Her academic and leadership interests explore the intersection of Black lived experiences, institutional systems, social justice, and belonging within educational and professional spaces.

She currently serves as a Student Engagement Assistant in Liberal Arts & Professional studies �첥��Ƶ, where she supports student outreach, programming, and peer connection initiatives. Margaret has also contributed to student transition and leadership programming through York’s Student Leadership and Community Development team and has served as an Outreach Lead for a university case competition.

Her commitment to student engagement and service has been recognized through several honours, including a Certificate of Distinction for Excellence from the Student Community & Leadership Development, the Best College Crew Volunteer Award (2024–2025) from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and recognition for her commitment to the Human Resources Student Association community. She also recently presented at �첥��Ƶ’s International Student Conference, where she spoke about navigating life as an international student.

Margaret is passionate about advocacy, and community-centered engagement, and she hopes to continue contributing to conversations that affirm the richness, complexity, and diversity of African and diasporic experiences.

Keywords: Black Studies, African Diaspora, Labour, Equity, Social Justice, Student Engagement, Community Development, Law, Belonging, Youth Leadership, International Students

Uyiosa Eweka

rebsl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:57:57 +0000

Uyiosa Eweka - a second year criminology major at �첥��Ƶ with a deep passion for understanding the complexities of the world. Her legal inspiration stems from the need to address An avid reader and music lover, Uyiosa finds joy in singing and engaging in thoughtful debates. With a strong commitment to supporting others, Uyiosa channels her interest in law, politics, faith and the environment into meaningful insights that help make sense of today's challenges. Through her studies and personal pursuits, Uyiosa strives to blend knowledge with compassion, making a positive impact on those around her.

Keywords: Law, Policy, Impact of slavery, Crime displacement, Policing, Settler Colonialism, Africa

Kaosisochukwu Ejiaso

rebsl — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:31:52 +0000

Kaosisochukwu Ejiaso is a Ph.D. student at �첥��Ƶ, Toronto, Canada in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies. She holds an MA in Languages, Literatures and Linguistics from �첥��Ƶ and a BA in English Language and Literature from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra, Nigeria. She is interested in linguistics of suicide notes, sexual assault, rape, and gender-based violence in Nigeria, particularly, and generally in Africa.

Keywords: Language, Gender, Gender-based Violence, law, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, African Studies, Afro feminism, black Feminism, afro-diasporic feminism, Women's studies, Girl's studies

Juanita De Barros

rebsl — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:31:38 +0000

Juanita De Barros is a Professor in the Department of History at McMaster University and the director of the Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice. She is the former president of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She did her PhD at �첥��Ƶ and was a DuBois-Mandela-Rodney fellow at the Department of Afro-American and African studies at the University of Michigan. She is the co-editor of two book series: “Histories of Slavery and its Global Legacies” (Cambridge University Press) and “Confronting Atrocity: Human Rights and Restorative Justice” (McGill-Queens University Press). Her research concentrates on the history of health, gender, and reproductive rights in the Caribbean within the context of imperialism and post-slavery societies. She has written two books, numerous articles and book chapters and has co-edited four essay collections. has co-edited three essay collections and two journal special issues. Her most recent publications are Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery and the essay collection, Public Health and the Imperial Project. Her current research project explores the intersection of health and the law in the context of child incarceration in state institutions in the early 20th century Caribbean.

James Simeon

rebsl — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 22:45:24 +0000

Dr James C. Simeon is the Head of McLaughlin College and Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, and a former Director of the SPPA, and a former Acting Director and Deputy Director at the Centre for Refugee Studies at �첥��Ƶ. Prior to joining the faculty at �첥��Ƶ, James served as the first Executive Director of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ), now the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ). He is currently an Associate Member of the IARMJ and serves as the Coordinator of its Inter-Conference Working Party Process. He is also one of the founding members of the IARMJ America Chapter. He is the immediate past President of the Canadian Association for Refugees and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), a member of the International Association for the �첥��Ƶ of Forced Migration (IASFM) and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC).

Annie Bunting

rebsl — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:53:19 +0000

Dr. Annie Bunting is a Professor of Law & Society at �첥��Ƶ and York Research Chair in International Gender Justice & Peacebuilding. Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods, feminist international law, and culture, religion and law. Since 2010, she has directed an international research collaboration (SSHRC-funded Partnership) called Conjugal Slavery in War: Partnership for the study of enslavement, marriage and masculinities with historians of slavery, community-based researchers and women’s human rights scholars. This project includes partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Canada and England.

She is the co-editor of Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa (Ohio University Press 2016) with Benjamin Lawrance and Richard Roberts; Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice (University of British Columbia Press 2017, Cornell University Press 2018) with Joel Quirk; and Research as More than Extraction? Knowledge Production and Sexual Violence in Post Conflict African Societies (openDemocracy/ Beyond Trafficking and Slavery, eBook 2020) with Allen Kiconco and Joel Quirk.

Keywords: International gender justice; contemporary slavery; conflict-related SGBV