Bio

As a scholar, human rights advocate and public servant, my experience has included Acting Chief Commissioner and Vice Chair of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Chair of the Toronto Police Services Commission, Toronto Board of Education Race Relations Advisor, President of the Canadian Association of Police Boards, extensive advocacy and consulting work in equity, community organizing and human rights, course design and teaching at York University in South Asian cultures, languages and, among others, Indigenous Canadian literature and at Metropolitan Toronto University as a “distinguished visiting professor.”   Finally, amidst completing my Ph.D., my critical assignment as a father and a grandfather, I published Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature, a translation of a work on the literature of India’s “untouchable” writers by the Dalit writer Sharankumar Limbale, and This Gift of English a new analysis of the rise of English education and Indian ruling class interests, and co-authored with Tim Harper Excessive Force: Toronto’s Fight to Reform City Policing