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Dr. Hilary Inwood is a teacher educator, researcher, and artist who coordinates the Sustainability and Climate Action Network at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ, University of Toronto, and the national ACCE-TE Project in Climate Change Education. She leads an innovative collaboration between OISE and the Toronto District School Board focused on enhancing teachers’ professional learning in Climate Change Education. Her research focuses on developing teachers’ knowledge, capacity and creativity in Environmental and Sustainability Education.

Dr. Fikile Nxumalo, Associate Professor at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ, University of Toronto, explores how educational spaces might attend to the entanglements of place, race, and environmental precarity, emphasizing relational and land-connected ways of knowing and being.

Dr. Michael Classens is an Assistant Professor – Teaching Stream and Undergraduate Associate Director in the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. He is broadly interested in areas of social and environmental justice, with an emphasis on these dynamics within food systems. As a teacher, researcher, learner, and activist, he is committed to connecting theory with practice, and scholarship with socio-ecological change. 

Note: While we regret that Dr. Meagan Hamilton could not join us this year, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Michael Classens to the program. We are incredibly grateful to Dr. Classens for stepping in to share his expertise on such short notice. Please see the updated session title and description on this page.

Dr. Kevin Edmonds, Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning and Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto, brings insights from Caribbean political economy, grassroots organizing, and radical political traditions to examine community-based alternatives, histories of development, and collective resistance to structural inequities.