Fukakusa Visiting Scholar

The Belbeck-Fukakusa Family Foundation is contributing $1 million to establish the Chancellor Janice Fukakusa Racial Justice Scholar in Residence program at Faculty of Law.

This gift will allow the Faculty to launch the Racial Justice Initiative by supporting the hiring of one or more directors to lead it in its inception, and fund the first steps in our Knowledge Mobilization plan, including lectures, symposia and seminars, conferences, professional events, and judicial training.

Over the coming years, these subject matter experts will weave racial justice throughout the law curriculum, help to develop a racial justice legal clinic, and a program of funded internships or externships, mentoring opportunities and experiential opportunities for students across each of the three years of Ryerson’s JD Program.

With the guidance of the Dean, the Faculty will attract highly regarded, senior faculty members with expertise in critical race theory to serve as Racial Justice Scholars in Residence, and the naming of this position will help the Faculty to attract leading scholars in critical race theory across North America to serve in this role.