Public Service and Social Involvement

Black and Chinese Community Collaboration, Montreal 1990
Montreal’s Declaration Against Racial Discrimination 1989
50th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition of EXPO ’67,  McCord Museum, Montreal 2017
James Robinson Johnston Portrait Unveiling at Nova Scotia Law Courts 2008
With Health Canada’s Atlantic Regional Manager, Beverley Johnson February 2000 
With renowned  Costa Rican writer Quince Duncan,  the Presidential Commissioner for Peoples of African Descent, San José, 2016.
Department of Education Consultative Meeting on Anti- Racism Strategies 
San Jose, Costa Rica 2016
With President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda during Women’s International Observer Mission to Constituent Assembly Elections 1994

LOCAL COMMUNITIES

QUEBEC – Montreal  Community

  • Congress of Black Writers, McGill University 1968
  • Quebec Board of Black Educators  1972-1985
  • Committee for the Welfare and Development of Black Children 1974 
  • Congress of Black Women of Canada 1974
    • Quebec Regional representative 1976-1980
    • National Secretary 1976-1980
    • Founding Member of national Congress 1980
    • National President 1989-1991
  • La Maisonnée 1979
  • Congress of Black Lawyers and Jurists of Quebec currently known as L’Association des Avocats et Notaires Noirs du Quebec (L’AANNQ) – Founding Member 1985.

QUEBEC – Montreal Institutions 

  • Conseil supérieur de l’Education du Ministère de l’Education du Québec 1978-1991
    • Comité interconfessionnel et interculturel 1979-1981
    • Committee on School and Cultural Communities  1981-1983
    • Resource person for Quebec  Ministry of Education  Project, “Some Missing  Pages”  
  • Centraide  Comité du Budget 1981-1983
  • Conseil du statut de la femme du Québec 1981-1984
  • Conseil général du Barreau du Québec, Membre  1981-1984
    • Member called to Barreau du Québec since 1987
    • Comité sur les Communautés culturelles
    • Let’s Meet the Lawyers! Outreach Project  1994-1996
  • Déclaration de Montréal contre la discrimination raciale  1989
  • Institutionalizing February Black History Month in the Quebec public space 1989/1990
  • McCord Museum of Montreal, 
    • EXPO ’67, 50th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition 2017 

NATIONAL- PROVINCIAL

NOVA SCOTIA – Halifax 

  • Member called to the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society since 1998
    • Race Relations Committee 1996-1998
    • ‘Race’ and Law Essay Competition Selection Jury  2008-2016
    • Law Foundation of NS Board of Governors 2000-2003
  • Nova Scotia Human RIghts Commission
    • Court Expert providing expertise on ‘Race’ and Racism for human rights case of racial discrimination  
    • Panel of Board of Inquiry Chairs 1999-2003
  • Nova Scotia Psychiatric Facilities Review Board Member 2005-2008
  • Dalhousie University
    • First James Robinson Johnston Endowed Chair in Black Canadian Studies 1996-2002
    • Member of Senate
    • Senate Executive Committee Member 2006-2010

NATIONAL – FEDERAL

  • Canadian Bar Association
    • Advisory Steering Committee for Racism in the Legal Profession research Project 1994
    • “Roads to Equality” National Conference Panel 1994
  • Member National Film Board of Canada Board of Trustees 2004-2007
  • Kidney Foundation of Canada (Nova Scotia Branch) 2009-2011

INTERNATIONAL – GLOBAL 

  • National Council for  Black Studies 1980, 2007,  USA
  • Black Women’s International Cross Cultural Studies Institute 1982, 1985, 1998, 1999, USA
  • International Resource Network for Women of African Descent Founding Member  1982-1985,  Canada / USA
  • International Defence  and Aid Fund for Southern Africa 1988,  Canada
  • Third International Feminist Book Fair 1988, Canada
  • National Conference of Black Lawyers  1985-1989; 2007,  USA
    • Coordinated Quebec delegation to International Conference 1986,  Toronto 
    • Member of Conference  Organizing Committee 1987,  Washington DC, USA 
    • Conference Participant 2007,  Philadelphia, USA 
  • National Human Genome Project 2000-2006,   Howard University, Washington DC, USA
  • Global Afrikan Congress Founding Member 2001, Barbados  
  • Journal of Black Studies Editorial Board 2008, USA