Emmanuel Taiwo is a chartered environmental professional and a doctoral researcher at the IMPACT Lab, University of Toronto, Scarborough. A Vanier Scholar (SSHRC) and a Connaught Public Impact Fellow, Emmanuel’s research focuses on investigating and tackling equity and justice barriers hindering Canadian communities, especially across the Greater Toronto Area, from accessing innovations in climate and energy transitions. His research centers a whole-of-society and co-production approach, partnering with community-based organizations, grassroot partners and various stakeholders in his research design and execution. Emmanuel previously advised the UK Government, Global Affairs Canada, and several others on multimillion dollar climate, energy and environmental projects, and has led sustainability initiatives in the UK and across Africa over the last decade. He completed an MSc in sustainable environmental management with distinction from Greenwich as a Commonwealth Scholar and a Master of Public Policy from the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford as an Africa Initiative for Governance Scholar. Emmanuel has held fellowships with Massey College, the Earth System Governance Project Network, the Canada Excellence Research Chair Network for Equity in Sustainability Transitions, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and loves spending time motivating future sustainability leaders of the next generation.
Anushay Irfan Khan serves as the Experiential Learning (EL) Operations Lead, supporting the Associate Dean of Experiential & Global Learning, Professor Lynn Tucker, in driving decanal EL initiatives. She collaborates with stakeholders to develop administrative processes for the Experiential & Global Learning (EGL) unit, leads EGL committees and strategic initiatives, and supervises staff. Anushay manages the Experiential Learning Fund (ELF), aligns workflows, supports EGL assessment, and coordinates communication efforts. Committed to fostering EGL opportunities, she engages in global experiential learning initiatives while pursuing a Ph.D. in Social Justice Education at OISE/UT.
Nino Bariola is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Culinaria Research Centre. He received his PhD in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His interests include food culture and race, sustainability, and gender and racial inequalities in organizations. Bariola's dissertation and book project examines the case of Peruvian cuisine to shed light on how—and with what social and environmental implications—racialized foods accrue legitimacy in the transnational culinary field. Bariola’s research appears in American Behavioral Scientist, Conservation Biology, Regional Studies, and other academic journals and books.
Prof. N. Thavarajah, a distinguished scholar, holds a Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of Toronto. With extensive teaching experience at prestigious institutions, she has pioneered innovative teaching methods in chemistry education. Her research focuses on sustainable agricultural practices and green extraction techniques for antioxidants. She actively contributes to curriculum development and diversity initiatives, including the establishment of the Women in STEM Leadership Program. Prof. Thavarajah's dedication to teaching excellence has earned her numerous awards and recognition in the academic community.
Robert Schertzer is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science at the University of Toronto and UTSC. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of three areas: federalism, judicial politics, and ethno-national diversity, with a tendency to look at Canada from a broadly comparative perspective. He is the author of The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation: Lessons from the Supreme Court of Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and The New Nationalism in American and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2022, with Eric Taylor Woods). His work has been published in Nations and Nationalism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Publius, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He is also the founding co-editor of The State of Nationalism, an open-access portal for review articles on the study of nationalism.
Dr. Roger Antabe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Society at University of Toronto Scarborough, with a graduate appointment in the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto. He is a health geographer whose research interests span both the Global South and North (specifically, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Canada), where his work contributes to health promotion and health equity. In SSA, his research examines environmental exposures, population health inequalities, health care access, and utilization of health services especially among marginalized and structurally exposed populations. His research focus in Canada is on the poor health outcomes of racialized populations and immigrants at the nexus of behavioral and structural risk factors. His current research examines HIV vulnerability and resilience of Black and other racialized populations in Ontario and Canada. He is passionate about community engagement and mobilization and is involved in some ongoing community projects that seek to promote health equity for vulnerable groups in Canada.