FEAS Discovery Series: Journey to Mars

Bomani Khemet is an assistant professor of building science in the  Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto, and is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario. He earned his Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at Howard University, as well as a Master of Building Science and a Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering at Ryerson University.

Professionally, Bomani has over a decade of engineering experience as a designer or manager on a variety of fascinating construction and transportation projects. These projects include the design of emission reduction technologies in heavy vehicles, as well as Reduction of Hazardous Substances initiatives for industrial products. Most notably, he has had the opportunity to work on Toronto’s Union Station Revitalisation project under a comprehensive transit re-signalling construction contract. Bomani's research is focused on facilitating the design of comfortable, ultra-low energy, affordable homes, and buildings.

Huse Madhavji is a versatile actor in film and television. After roles on ABC's "Combat Hospital" and a 4-season run on HBO Canada's comedy "Call Me Fitz”, Huse took on the challenging part of Dr. Shahir Hamza, a brilliant neurosurgeon with Asperger's syndrome on CTV's hit drama, "Saving Hope” for 5 seasons. He is also an award-winning writer and producer. His short film, "The Time Traveler" that he created with director RT Thorne, garnered attention and won best short film at the Canadian Film Fest and received a best foreign film nomination at the San Francisco Black Film Festival. Recent guest appearances include Schitt's Creek, Lethal Weapon (Fox) and Private Eyes (Global). You can also hear Huse as the voice of Ramu in the Disney animated series, Mira, Royal Detective.

Prior to acting, Huse was a successful broadcaster last seen as a correspondent for Etalk and hosting Star! Canada's Entertainment Channel (now E! Canada) where he hosted their flagship show “Star! Daily, “Canada’s New Year’s Eve Bash, and covered US President Barak Obama’s election in Grant Park Chicago.

Sari Graben’s teaching and research focuses on Indigenous peoples, with a special focus on regulatory institutions, emergent property systems, and risk. She is the co-editor (with Angela Cameron and Val Napoleon) of the upcoming book, Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships (2020), and is published in such journals as the University of Toronto Law Journal, the University of British Columbia Law Review, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Leiden Journal of International Law, and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 

Graben currently holds multiple research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for projects pertaining to Indigenous peoples and development. She has received the President’s Blue and Gold Award for Staff Excellence (2020) for her work as part of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law Start-up Team, as well as the Dean’s Scholarly Research and Creativity Award (2015), and the Best Paper Award from the Canadian Academy of Legal Studies in Business (2018) for her work on Aboriginal Title. Graben has served as an Executive Member of the Aboriginal Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association as well as a Member of the Board of Directors of Interval House (Kingston). She is regularly invited to present to government boards and ministries on risk, regulation, and rights.

Prior to joining the Ryerson Law, Graben was counsel at McMillan LLP, adjunct faculty at Queen’s University Faculty of Law, and associate professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM). She has been a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, UC (Berkeley), a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of Washington (Seattle), visiting professor at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, and visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University.