The CSLP is launching a new workshop series in 2024, with the Unveiling Equity sessions getting underway on February 7 with the workshop, Tackling Structural Racism. Speakers Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf and Celina Yellowbird (University of Alberta), along with Vivek Venkatesh (CSLP co-director) will unpack the impact of structural racism in Canadian society at the English-language session at 10am, facilitated by Kathryn Urbaniak (Concordia PhD student).
A French-language session will follow at 2pm with speakers Paul Gareau (University of Alberta), Celina Yellowbird, and Vivek Venkatesh, facilitated by Rawda Harb (Concordia PhD student).
Speakers will share strategies for sensitizing the public and building dialogic spaces to counter different forms of structural racism and discuss recommendations to tackle these structural forms of racism for policy makers in education, mental health, social service, public safety and other fields, based on practical experiences.