EDID Events in the School of Social Work 2024-2025
Thank you to the EDID Committee for their outstanding work this year. This small but mighty team have successfully launched several events this year and made significant contributions to "Building an equitable, diverse, inclusive and decolonized UWindsor School of Social Work".
EDID Committee Launches first Discussion Forum in the School of Social Work!
The School of Social Work's EDID Committee launched their first event on Friday, February 7th, 2025 - a Discussion Forum bringing together SSW students to engage in critical discussions on EDID. Students were encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences, give their suggestions and get support.
The event was very well attended by our students. We want to give our sincere thanks to:
Ms. Marium Tolson-Murtty, Director, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Kaitlyn Ellsworth, Black Student Support Coordinator in the Office of the Vice-President - People, Equity and Inclusion, and Dr. Riham Al-Saadi, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, for your support and assistance with this event. A big thanks to Onyinyechi Akpovwovwo for your hard work on this event. We couldn't have done it without you all.
The event was proudly sponsored by:
The Office of the Vice President, People, Equity, and Inclusion and:
EDID Committee hosts movie day in honour of Black History Month - March 2025
The EDID Committee in the School of Social Work will be hosted a movie day for Black History Month, inviting all Social Work students to attend in rooms. We will be showing the ollowing film: Origin (film) - Wikipedia
Date: Friday, March 7th
Time: 2:30pm-4:45pm
Rooms: 110 & 116, School of Social Work, Windsor Hall
Free admission
Please e-mail socwork@uwindsor. ca to rsvp
Faculty & Staff Retreat welcomes Dr. Uzo Anucha - May 2025
Most recently, at our SSW Faculty and Staff retreat, a workshop/presentation titled Supporting Black and racialized students in social work education: Improving curriculum content was on the agenda for the morning half of the day. We were very pleased to note that invited guest speaker Dr. Uzo Anucha from York University lead this presentation. This portion of the retreat was sponsored by funding from
Dr. Anucha is full Professor in the School of Social Work at York University and the York Research Chair in Youth and Contexts of Inequity.
On January 1st, 2025 Dr. Uzo Anucha was appointed to the role of Associate Vice-President, Faculty Affairs at York. To learn more about Dr. Anucha please visit her faculty profile at Uzo Anucha | Faculty Profile | Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Many thanks to Dr. Anucha for attending our retreat and leading us into rich and powerful discussions around supporting black and racialized students in the School of Social Work. We appreciate your time and commitment to enriching our School.
A special thank you to Onyinyechi Akpovwovwo, EDID Ignite Student who assisted with our events and work with EDID. We greatly appreciate you, Onyi!
