Mohammed Hashim has worked as a labour organizer and human rights advocate for over a decade. He has dedicated his career to supporting equity, inclusion, and community empowerment. He is currently the Executive Director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Way of Greater Toronto. Mr. Hashim is also a founding advisor of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.

Rev. Dr. Anthony Bailey is the Coordinating Minister of Parkdale United Church in Ottawa’s central-west end, serving his congregation and the wider community in that capacity for the past 22 years. Originally from Barbados, Rev. Dr. Bailey has academic degrees in social work, theology, philosophy of religion and ethics and culture, as well as experience studying and working in countries such as the USA, Kenya and Jamaica. He has also taught at the university level.

Rev. Dr. Bailey is a gifted communicator and a dynamic advocate for social, restorative/collaborative justice, racial reconciliation, interfaith collaboration, affordable housing, food security, and the importance of a vibrant spiritual life. He continues to provided leadership in his congregation’s on-going work of sponsoring and supporting refugees.

As a diversity and racial justice trainer, Rev. Dr. Bailey provides multicultural, anti-systemic racism workshops and training in schools, community agencies, Federal and municipal government departments, police services, service clubs and religious communities. His is a passionate and persistent desire to help curate a more just, gracious and beloved society. Rev. Dr. Bailey is also frequently invited to comment on radio, TV and various print media on significant social and religious issues.

As an active and engaged community advocate, Rev. Dr. Bailey is also a Board member on a number Boards, including the Ottawa Mission and Crime Prevention Ottawa. He has been awarded the Order of Ottawa as well as the DreamKeepers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Life Achievement Award.

Ryan Chan is a social advocate who received his JD from the University of Toronto. Ryan is the project lead on online hate and social media at the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice, where he frequently speaks about issues of race and racism concerning the Asian Canadian community, and works with government and community stakeholders to advocate for social media regulations using an anti-racism lens. Ryan is also on the board of directors of the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers and works as an articling student at Macdonald Sager Manis. He also previously worked as a consultant for the WWF-Canada.

The Honourable Irwin Cotler is the Founder and International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, international human rights lawyer, and counsel to prisoners of conscience. He is a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and longtime Member of Parliament.

Deborah Dobbins, a cultural and special education consultant, is a 3rd generation African American Albertan whose grandparents immigrated to Alberta in the early 1900’s from Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, Texas. She is the President and CEO of Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots (SCMR) a not-for-profit society that is grounded in a mosaic of rich, inclusive African American Canadian heritage dating as far back as pre-1910 whose mandate is to honour, educate, celebrate their community with the communities at large.

Deborah holds a B.Ed. from the U of A, an M.R.A. from the U.S. and has recently retired from a 34 + year teaching and administration career in Edmonton, Alberta.

Deborah Dobbins is a board member of Aspen Foundation for Labour Education (Edmonton) Education Committee she assists with the development of educational resources related to social justice, global education and labour educations. She also sits on Coalition for Creating Equity (Provincial and Edmonton Boards) Human Rights Commission of Alberta (Public Rep) and Shiloh Baptist Church board (the first noted Black Church in Western Canada: 1910 Edmonton). Deborah Dobbins works diligently to ensure that the historical journey of her people is acknowledged and becomes an integral part of educating Canada about systemic anti-black discrimination and the possible means to build on that foundation towards equity for all persons.

Dakshana Bascaramurty is a national news reporter for The Globe and Mail who writes about race and ethnicity. She won a 2013 National Newspaper Award in beat reporting for her coverage of changing demographics in the 905 region. Previously, she was a feature writer for Globe Life.

The Honourable Irwin Cotler is the Founder and International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, international human rights lawyer, and counsel to prisoners of conscience. He is a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and longtime Member of Parliament.