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The Research Advisory Committee (RAC) is designed to provide the infrastructure that is necessary for ongoing communication, relationship building and collaboration with community partners. The RAC will provide ongoing guidance and leadership to identify and work towards the project’s research, community engagement, and advocacy goals to better understand how immigration and child welfare policies and practices impact immigrant families and how migrant communities respond to intersecting systemic inequities through collective action.
Interested in getting involved with our Research Advisory? Please send us an email at borderingpractices@utoronto.ca
Please find our Terms of Reference here.
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Atulya Sharman: South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario
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Brantella Williams: S4 Collective
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Carlie DeBuck : Society for Children and Youth of BC
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Cheyenne Ratnam: Ontario Children's Advancement Coalition
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Destin Bujang: Black Creek Youth Initiative
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Jasmine Johnson: Collective of Child Welfare Survivors
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Jshandeep Jassal: Solid State
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Keishia Facey & Vania Patrick-Drake: One Vision One Voice – OACAS
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Liz Okai & Danielle Ungara: Child Welfare Immigration Centre of Excellence
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Mary Birdsell: Justice for Children & Youth
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Meena Dhillon: Meena Dhillon Law Corporation
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Omar Chu: Community Member at Large
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Sarah Pole: Childhood Arrivals Support and Advocacy Centre of Canada
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Sharnelle Jenkins-Thompson: West Coast LEAF
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Shalini Konanur: South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario
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Vania Patrick-Drakes: One Vision One Voice – OACAS
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Zoha Salam: Anti-Racism Directorate, Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism
