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A Way of Being: The Making of Transnational Kinship Relations in Institutions of Higher Learning
From: Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students
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In the concluding chapter, the authors describe, assess, and evaluate the kind and quality of mentoring that supports the academic well-being of Indigenous, Black/African students, and students of colour in Canadian universities.
Contributors
Benita Bunjun
Benita Bunjun is currently an Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s University in the Department of Social Justice and Community Studies (SJCS). She received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Simon Fraser University with The Centre for Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health. She was a student organizer during her undergraduate and graduate years including with Colour Connected Against Racism, Women of Colour Mentorship Program, and The Centre for Race, Autobiography, Gender and Age (RAGA). She is currently the Faculty Coordinator for the Racialized Students Academic Network (RSAN). Her research examines organizational and institutional power relations with a focus on colonial encounters within academic spaces.
Yvonne Brown
Yvonne Brown is a scholar of critical education, race, and chattel slavery. She has had a distinguished career in education as a public school teacher, university lecturer, policy analyst, manager of international initiatives, and school trustee. Dr. Brown was a postdoctoral fellow at The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. She has been conducting archival research in England and Jamaica for her second book. She is also the author of Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica (Wilfred Laurier). Currently, Dr. Brown is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social Justice and Community Studies (SJCS) at Saint Mary’s University.
