DPPH S01E02: Founding

Best, Concordia

This episode features DPPH’s founding members, Hone Mandefro and Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, along with one of the Hub’s current members, Albane Gaudissart, sharing some of the history on the beginnings of the Hub and how it came to be. The discussion is facilitated by Kris Millet from Best, Concordia. Speakers: Jamilah Dei-Sharpe is a second-generation Canadian-Black Jamaican Ghanaian women, who specializes in decolonial pedagogy, Black masculinity, critical race and gender studies. She offers strategies for community mobilization, participatory facilitation and sedimenting critical pedagogies from her experiences co-founding the NBGN and the DPPH, with public speaking engagements and multiple initiatives against anti-Black racism on Concordia campus. Hone Mandefro is an Ethiopian international Ph.D. student that has over a decade of experience lecturing and training students in Social Policy and Social Work. As well as extensive experience in international political advocacy with the Ethiopian polity. Albane Gaudissart is a French gender equality activist that has been working for eight years in Tanzania with the feminist, decolonial Non-For Profit organization 'TATU Project'; using her MA Anthropology degree to research the adoption of mobile technologies in the Tanzanian community Maasais. She has unmatched expertise in managing social-justice organizations and grassroots activism, whilst connecting the DPPPH to her international Tanzanian network. Facilitator: Kris Millet, PhD student in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia. Editor: Connie Phung, PhD student in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia.