Celebrating Black History Month: Alumni Profile on Tina Garnett
President & Principal Consultant, Providence International EDI Consulting

Most recently, Tina’s work resulted in being recognized twice in 2020 as the 2020 Woman Who Rocks Community Activism Award and 2020 John C. Holland Black Business Achievement Award. Read Tina's full profile

Professor Stefan Kipfer penned an in memoriam for Leo Pantich (1945-2020), a distinguished York U professor in political science. Read the full article “Remembering Leo Pantich” on Capitalism Nature Socialism.

PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies, Reena Shadaan has published “EDC's as Industrial Chemicals and Settler Colonial Structures: Towards a Decolonial Feminist Approach" in Catalyst Journal.

PhD Candidate in Geography, Megan Whitney, and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research team for Synergies in Planetary Health Research, launched their “State and Trends in Adaption Report 2020” at the 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS 2021).

Professor Mark Winfield’s “As electricity costs soar, the Ford government needs to scrop the Fair Hydro Plan and review all options before during further nuclear refurbishments” in Policy Options’ January edition.

Professor Roger Keil was published, “The density dilemma: there is always too much and too little of it” in Urban Geography, an international journal publishing research on urban geography.

Professor Tarmo Remmel has been busy developing new content for his Winter courses and for the YU Experience Hub. Check out his recent video celebrating experiential education at York U. In addition, he has been nominated for a President’s Teaching Award and recently published an article “A Spatial Database of Ontario Fire and Harvesting Disturbances” in Ontario Professional Foresters Newsletter.

The Youth Climate Report, a documentary film project led by Mark Terry – explorer, award-winning filmmaker and contract faculty member and course director at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change – has earned an Honourable Mention from the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2020 Action Awards. Read Yfile here. In addition, Terry was the featured cover story in the latest edition of EDEN Magazine.

Gail Fraser provided a keynote “Offshore oil and seabird conservation lessons learned from the Canadian experience” to the Waterbird Society.

Kean Birch wrote “Ottawa’s post-hoc privacy plan still leaves the power with Big Tech” op-ed for the Globe and Mail.

Martha Stiegman’s latest co-directed film with Ange Loft “By These Presents: “Purchasing” Toronto”, was screened as part of the 45^th edition of San Francisco’s American Indian Film Festival.

Raju Das wrote a new article “Four main components of Marxism” for Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Alison Bain’s SSHRC funded project, Queering Canadian Suburbs: LGBTQ2S place making outside of central cities, has two forthcoming articles selected for publication, one titled “Whither ‘queer’ suburbanisms? Beyond suburban heteronormativity and the hegemony of the queer urban” in the Progress in Human Geography and the second titled, “Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms” in Urban Studies.

Roger Keil provided two keynote addresses this past month, Beyond the Virus: Urban Research and Planning in Times of Risk and Uncertainty, UCTEA Chamber of City Planners in Turkey on November 3 and  “After the pandemic is before the pandemic”: Urban research and planning in times of risk and uncertainty to the Hungarian Society for Urban Planning on November 17.

Steven Tufts pens an op-ed for the Toronto Star, “O’Toole is smart to align himself with unions”