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A Transformative Framework to Achieve and Sustain Employment Equity at the end of the first UN International Decade for People of African Descent

Date
September 26, 2024
Time
12:00 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
Location
Oakham House, 63 Gould Street (Oakham Lounge - 2nd Floor)
Open To
TMU Community
Register for A Transformative Framework to Achieve and Sustain Employment Equity at the end of the first UN International Decade for People of African Descent (external link) 
Lincoln Alexander Law Speaker Series featuring Dr. Adelle Blackett.

We invite you to join us for the first installment of this year's Lincoln Alexander Law Speaker Series featuring a conversation with Dr. Adelle Blackett.

In July 2021, Dr. Blackett was appointed by the federal Minister of Labour to chair Canada’s Employment Equity Act Review Task Force, which was tasked with undertaking a comprehensive review of the Employment Equity Act and its supporting programs.

We are thrilled to invite Dr. Blackett back to our campus to share key insights from the Task Force Report: A Transformative Framework to Achieve and Sustain Employment Equity (external link) .** As the first UN International Decade for People of African Descent concludes, we will explore how the report recommendations can unlock the potential for a deeply diverse and flourishing Canadian society.

**An executive summary (external link)  of the report is also available.

Speaker

Adelle Blackett

Dr. Adelle Blackett is the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and the William Hughes Mulligan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fordham Law School. She is also the inaugural Chancellor Janice Fukakusa Racial Justice Scholar in Residence at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. Dr. Blackett is widely published in the field of transnational labour law, with a focus on decolonial approaches. Her book Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law, (Cornell University Press, 2019) garnered the Canadian Council on International Law’s 2020 Scholarly Book Award. Dr. Blackett has also assumed significant leadership on racial justice in Canadian higher education, including as the principal drafter of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education, which has been described as a “visionary blueprint for building a new Black narrative in Canada."