2023 Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

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  David Kim

  Warden, Hart House

  David Kim was appointed Warden, Hart House on June 5, 2023. His contributions and involvement at the University of Toronto are extensive, and his history with the House goes back over 25 years. He has been an active participant of the Hart House Board of Stewards for several years, and has had a strong connection to the House from his time as a U of T student to the present day.

  David has been working at U of T since 2007. He began in the area of residence and student life, after having worked in science research and some time abroad in the field of education. Prior to his leadership role at Hart House, he was Dean of Residence & Director of Student Life for Spaces & Experiences. Here, he oversaw the admissions, student services and residence life operations for Chestnut Residence, Graduate House, Chelsea Residence and Knox College. In this capacity, he gained vital experience in facilities management, capital planning, managing ancillary budgets, training and development, student support and working with his teams in the planning and delivery of programming activities and events. An active member of several University committees and governance bodies, including the International Student Experience Advisory Committee and the Positive Space Committee, David is also a lecturer in OISE’s Master of Education program.
  He holds a PhD in Higher Education from OISE.

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  Alexandra Gillespie

  Vice-President & Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga

  Alexandra Gillespie is Vice-President of the University of Toronto and Principal at U of T Mississauga, where she has had the privilege to teach as a professor of global book history for the past twenty years.

  As Vice-President and Principal, Alex champions the university’s priorities and works to build reciprocal relationships across our Mississauga and Peel communities. She’s deeply committed to realizing U of T’s promise: to remain North America’s top public university for the employability of our graduates and to give all our students the lift of a lifetime. And she’s proud to be part of a UTM community where some of the best students, faculty, and staff in the world work to make the world a better place.

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  Rose Patten

  Chancellor, University of Toronto

  Rose Patten is the 34th Chancellor of the University of Toronto, where she is also Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor in executive leadership programs at the Rotman School of Management, a member of Massey College, and a distinguished former Chair of the Governing Council. Currently Special Advisor to the CEO and Senior Executives at BMO Financial Group, she is well known from her 30-year career as a senior leader in the Canadian financial services industry, and has extensive experience as an advisor in the fields of senior leadership development and succession, strategy execution, and governance, in corporate and community settings. Among many other awards and distinctions, she holds an honorary degree from the University of Toronto, and is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, a Member of the Order of Ontario, and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Panelists

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  Panel Moderator

  Angela Henshilwood

  Head, Engineering & Computer Science Library

  Angela Henshilwood is a settler of Scottish/Irish decent, originally from Kitchener, which is on Treaty 4 land. Angela is currently the Head of the Engineering & Computer Science Library, but she has been an engineering librarian at U of T since 2014. Angela lives nearby with her husband and 6-year-old son on land that was part of the Toronto Purchase.

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  Desmond Wong

  Outreach Librarian, OISE Library

  Desmond is a Chinese Canadian settler living in Mississauga of the Credit River Territory (Toronto). As a librarian, he works with the Indigenous students, faculty, and staff at the University of Toronto. He is interested in solidarity and relational accountability between Asian diaspora and other Black, Indigenous, and Communities of Colour. He believes that working towards Land Back and Indigenous Nationhoods is the only way to be in good relations on these Lands and towards collective liberation.

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  Grant Hurley

  Canadiana Librarian, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

  Grant Hurley is a settler librarian and archivist who works at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, the University of Toronto Libraries. He is responsible for curating the library’s extensive collections documenting the diverse experiences, histories, and cultural life on the lands associated with Canada. Grant also serves as a Sessional Instructor for the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. In 2021, he was awarded the Archives Association of Ontario’s Alexander Fraser Award for exceptional service to the archival community and the MISC Outstanding Instructor Award for excellence in teaching.

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  Mikayla Redden

  Information Services & Instruction Librarian, New College Library

  Mikayla Redden is a mixed race woman: Anishinaabe and Anglo settler heritage. She is a granddaughter, daughter, sister, auntie, helper, and learner. She lives and works on the Tkaronto Purchase but was born and raised on Treaty 20. Though she is a member of Curve Lake First Nation, she was not raised in the community. Her great-grandfather is John 'Jack' Jacobs. Jack was married to her great-grandmother, Edith Marsden of Scugog First Nation. Jack enfranchised himself and his children under section 214 of the Indian Act in March of 1935. This means that they relinquished their Indian identities and assimilated into white settler society. Her family began reconnecting in the 1990s. She has the privilege of walking in two worlds; learning from her relations on and off-reserve, both urban and rural, traditional and contemporary, and is able to apply pieces of those knowledges to her work life, as a librarian at New College. She is passionate about storytelling, anti-racist pedagogies, and amplifying the voices of Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour.

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