Binta is a doctoral candidate working with Dr. Marieme Lo, and Chair of the WGSI Graduate Student Union which has done amazing work this past year. Binta is also being […]
UofT awarded 29 Canada Research Chairs – Michelle Murphy, in the department of history in the Faculty of Arts & Science, tier one Canada Research Chair in science and technology […]
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Raha Bahreini
Raha Bahreini’s passion for human rights was born in Iran, nurtured in U of T’s Women and Gender Studies Institute and is now helping improve the lives of Iranians still facing oppression, repression and discrimination. […]
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Mara Raposo
Mara Raposo’s road to success is clearer, thanks to the City of Toronto Women and Gender Studies Scholarship. “My family raised me to love learning and to treat university as the […]
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Eva Mackey
Eva Mackey has come a long way since dropping out of high school in Grade 9 — and she thanks the City of Toronto Women and Gender Studies Scholarship for a large […]
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Dawn Wilkinson
For 25 years, Dawn Wilkinson has been challenging outdated perceptions of what a film director looks like and how stories are brought to life on the screen, thanks in part […]
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Cecilia Morgan
History is richer, truer and more interesting when it includes women. That’s the understanding Cecilia Morgan developed after receiving the City of Toronto Women and Gender Studies Scholarship in its inaugural year. […]
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Amanda Dale
As a student in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto, Amanda Dale took the honour of being named “most likely to contribute to improving the status of […]
For nearly half a century, the Caribbean Studies and African Studies programs have served as intellectual homes for many of the University’s racialized faculty and students. Our community has always […]
Nikoli Attai came to the Women & Gender Studies Institute in the Faculty of Arts & Science from Trinidad and Tobago in hopes of giving queer Caribbean people a stronger voice. “I am […]