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Date: December 17th, 2020
The Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Office (ARCDO) invites you to join us for our upcoming programming for Black History Month. ARCDO is proud to bring to the University of Toronto community two events in February 2021.
February 8th, 2021 • 10:00am- 12:00pm
Black History Month Symposium- Honoring the Diversity of Black Leaders and Agents of Change
Keynote Speaker: Dahabo Ahmed Omer, Executive Director of the Black North Initiative
Bio: Ms. Ahmed, has accumulated a wealth of experience and accomplishments in the performance measurement, policy development, HR planning analysis and employment equity and diversity sectors. She was recently appointed as the Executive Director of the BlackNorth Initiative. In her previous role, Ms. Ahmed was the Human Resources Specialist within the Public Sector and primarily responsible for the Visible Minority Advisory Steering Committee of the Agency and working in the agency-wide Employment Equity Action Plan and Anti-racism Strategy. Among the many other organizations of which she has been a part of, Ms. Ahmed is a founding member of the Justice for Abdirahman Coalition, which advocates securing justice for the late Abdirahman Abdi and his family. Ms. Ahmed is also the Chair of the Federation of Black Canadians, which is a national non-profit organization that is driven by Black organizations across Canada, which advances the social, economic and cultural interests of Canadians of African descent. Ms. Ahmed has been the recipient of notable awards over the years including the exceptional service within the Federal Public Service, the Canada150 Community Builder Award, The Hope Academy community contribution award, the Ottawa Black History Community Leadership Award and most recently the top 100 under 40 Most Influential Person of African descent in support of United Nations decade.
Followed by a panel discussion with external community members.
Format: Keynote followed by a panel discussion with external community members.
Platform: Virtual – Zoom
Audience: Free of cost to students, staff, faculty, and external community
February 12th, 2021 • 12:00pm- 2:00pm
Film Screening – Ninth Floor
It started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams sit-in. In her first feature-length documentary, director Mina Shum takes a penetrating look at the Sir George Williams University sit in of February 1969, when a protest against institutional racism snowballed into a 14-day student occupation at the Montreal university.
Format: Film screening and Q & A
Platform: Virtual – Zoom
Audience: Free of cost to students, staff, faculty, and external community