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(asos), she has directed, produced and co-written a spoken word play and poetry anthology on asos employment entitled Because She Cares: A Critical Poetic Retelling. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the FactorInwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Jennifer Clarke is a social worker, educator, researcher, consultant and clinical anti-racist trainer. Her practice, teaching and research are grounded in anti-oppression, anti-racism and anti-Black racism perspectives through which she explores and deconstructs the colonial, racial and gender power relations in social work education and practice. She has spent the last two decades studying race, racism and anti-Black racism in the child welfare and public education systems and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on Black families and child welfare, gun violence loss and trauma, violence against women and girls with a focus on intimate partner violence and cyber sexual violence, newcomer youth, and social work education and practice. She is also the recipient of several research grants and awards and a co-editor of Today’s Youth and Mental Health: Hope, Power and Resilience. Wesley Crichlow is professor, associate dean of equity, chair of the President’s Equity Taskforce and director for engagement and recruitment for Black youth and youth in care in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, in the youth and criminology specialization, at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Deone Curling is a mental health therapist at Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre in Toronto, which has been providing primary health care to racialized women in Toronto since 1998. She holds a doctorate degree in counselling psychology from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Dr. Curling’s therapeutic model identifies racialized women’s distinct and unique ways of experiencing, coping and healing. Her research suggests that healing from trauma is a relational phenomenon involving self, family and community. She has over twenty years of experience as a mental health therapist. She assisted in the development of Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre’s Counselling Program, which addresses the mental health of Black women and women of colour. She is currently in private practice. Vivian Dixon is an active community social worker and member of the Nova Scotia Association of Black Social Workers Executive team.
