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Title: Interview with Alexandra Flynn
Description: Professor Alexandra Flynn speaks on her personal experience growing up in Indigenous communities and learning to become an Indigenous ally. She also notes the importance of actively integrating Indigenous knowledge into education while also touching upon the ways in which she tries to promote Indigenous knowledge in her City Studies courses.
Subject: Activism, Administration, Community, Education, Indigeneity, Media

Title: Interview with Carolyn Ferns
Description: Carolyn Ferns talks about her position as the policy and government relations coordinator at the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care. She expands on the liberatory view of education involved in the realm of early childhood education and how it can be improved through politics and public policy. Carolyn discusses collaboration with other childcare organizations when working on initiatives surrounding the provincial budget and Childcare Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. In doing do, Carolyn also touches upon the ways in which these childcare organizations interact with and are impacted by the federal and provincial government.
Subject: Activism, Parenthood, Education, Poverty

Title: Interview with Kathy Grant
Description: Public historian and founder of the Legacy Voices Institute, Kathy Grant briefly discusses her academic history, military career and her inspiration to become a Historian: her father, Owen Rowe. Kathy describes her father's life, education, military career, and activism. She speaks about her father's involvement in the West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955–1967) and his collection of historical materials that document the black community. Kathy also describes the Domestic Scheme in detail and comments on the work of other activists, including Donald Moore.
Subject: Activism, Black peoples, Immigration, Racism

Title: Interview with Nesha Haniff
Description: Nesha Haniff speaks about her book "Blaze a Fire" and how it weaves together class, gender, race, and multiple other aspects to portray the stories of 28 Caribbean women. Nesha briefly touches upon the process of creating "Blaze of Fire", primarily in regards to her connection with her publisher, Sister Vision Press. She talks about her ambition for "Blaze of Fire" to serve as a high school teaching tool that allowed students to reconsider their view of women. Nesha remarks that "Blaze of Fire", which was published in the late 1980s, was ahead of its time in terms of the integration of gender studies into the classroom.
Subject: Activism, Women, Race and ethnicity

Title: Interview with Fatah Awil
Description: Fatah Awil speaks about the non-profit organization Urban Alliance On Race Relations in regards to their work on race relations and creation of training sessions across Ontario. Fatah describes his position as a program coordinator of the Diversity Youth Fellowship, which encourages and supports youth from Muslim, Black, Tamil and Filipino groups to become politically involved by providing them with internship opportunities in City Hall. As a previous fellow of this program, Fatah discusses the impact of the Diversity Fellowship both on the fellows that are involved in this program and for their communities as these fellows bridge the gap between their communities and city counsellors and the Mayor. He talks about the support that the Alliance has been providing and the advocation work it has done during COVID-19 for minorities working in high-risk jobs such as nurses, as well as how it has impacted their social activism.
Subject: Activism, Diversity, Race and ethnicity, Anti-racism

Title: Interview with Craig Heron
Description: Craig Heron, as a former professor of working-class history at York University, highlights the link between activism and history. Craig discusses how the New Left has contributed to his political involvement in protests for the democratization of the university as a UofT student and later involvements in strikes as a faculty member at York University. Lastly, Craig touches upon his initiatives as the President of Toronto Worker’ History Project, especially in regards to the production of community plays that he wrote surrounding different historical themes such as the Russian Revolution and the Winnipeg General Strike.
Subject: Activism, Student experience, Diversity, Faculty experience

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