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About BHM

Dr. Roberta Timothy is an Assistant professor in the Teaching Stream at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She has over 30 years experience working in community health. She brings an intersectional, critical race framework to her research. Dr. Timothy is intrinsically linked to Black transnational (global) communities as she prioritizes a critical pan-African feminist health framework in all her research, teaching, and community endeavours.  Resistance education, a creative methodology developed and practiced by Dr. Timothy, ensures that all her research is led by and for Black communities from an empowerment-centred, emancipatory framework. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Timothy recently co-organized the first Canada-wide forum discussing COVID-19 impact on African/Black communities in Canada. Her insights in relation to the need for COVID-19 research and programs with African/Black communities in Canada and globally has been broadcasted across Canada on TV and in newspapers. Check out robertatimothy.com for more information on her work.

Dr. Evelyn Kissi completed her doctorate degree in Critical Disability Studies (CDS) at York University (2020) with focus on understanding disability through the conceptualization of ‘Indigenous African Personhood’. Her future research will focus on African Indigenous spirituality, disability, and education.

Mercedes has over 20 years of experience facilitating personal, community, and organizational development and healing processes locally and transnationally as an educator, therapist, researcher, and consultant. Mercedes areas of interest include Anti-Oppression Psychotherapy, community mental health, health psychology, trauma, post-traumatic growth, bereavement, HIV, and intersectional research methodologies and knowledge translation. Mercedes holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Psychology, and is currently a Doctoral student in the Counselling Psychology program at the University of Toronto. Mercedes is Co-Director of Continuing Healing Consultants. She is of Indigenous and African ancestry.