'Imagining a Police-Free UofT' Speaker Series Session 2 - Policing on Campus: The Loss of Safety and Security

Link to Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-a-police-free-uoft-speaker-series-tickets-246659383857

Black, Indigenous, Mad/Disabled, and 2SLGBTQIA+ folks have been calling attention to police brutality and systemic racism in carceral systems for decades. This speaker series aims to be a set of initial community building events and political education sessions that will bring students, faculty, and community members together to facilitate discussion and critically consider the role of policing on campus, as well as trauma-informed alternatives. In doing so, we hope to create a network of people and groups who are interested in working towards a police-free UofT campus and provide space not only for students to learn from academics and community members, but also engage in critical dialogue with one another.

Desmond Cole is a journalist, activist, and author. He has spent the last ten years reporting and commentating on politics and social justice. He is especially interested in the struggle for Black liberation within Canada. Desmond's work includes ten years of local and national news coverage, five years of radio broadcasting at Newstalk 1010, a disruptive opinion column with the Toronto Star, and an award-winning magazine feature. He is the author of the number one national bestseller The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power.

Mimuna Mohamed is a certified life skills coach, facilitator, keynote speaker, award winning community organizer, project manager, human rights advocate, a student of psychology and Islamic spirituality, mindfulness meditation guide, founder of 'Justice for Mimuna Mohamed' and 'Justice for Madina Dini', founder of the upcoming Madina Dini Institute, online self-development courses and coaching platform. Survivor of police violence and systematic injustices.