Robyn Maynard is the author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (Fernwood 2017). The book is a CBC national bestseller, currently in its third printing, designated as one of the “best 100 books of 2017” by the Hill Times, listed in The Walrus’s “best books of 2018,″ shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction, and the winner of the 2017 Annual Errol Morris Book Prize, later published in French with Mémoire d’encrier, titled NoirEs sous surveillance. Esclavage, répression et violence d’Étatau Canada. Her writing on race, gender, and discrimination is taught widely in universities across Canada and the United States and she has spoken before Parliamentary subcommittees, the Human Rights Committee of the Senate, and the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.
Maynard has a long history of involvement in community activism and advocacy. She been a part of grassroots movements against racial profiling, police violence, detention and deportation for over a decade. She is currently a PhD student and Vanier scholar at the University of Toronto in the Women and Gender Studies Institute.
For anyone not able to attend in person this event will be live-streamed OR you can stop by Room 123 where the presentation is being watched as a group.
