News & Stories: Alumni and Friends

Meet our 2022 OISE graduate, Dr. Bishop Owis, who reflects on their doctoral journey with an emphasis on care

Mona El Samaty was named the 2022 winner of the OISE Leithwood Award for Outstanding Thesis of the Year for her dissertation.

They are public speakers, volunteers and advocates. For four of them, they call OISE their primary community.

Dr. OmiSoore Dryden championed the research institute’s creation as a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary centre of excellence for Black scholars.

During the pandemic, OISE alum Dr. Dean Barnes created a hockey card collection, featuring about 100 Black hockey players.

Vince's story from OISE to the world of enterprise education and back again – this time as a mentor to grad students.

OISE alum Dr. Douglas Gosse has been appointed to the Council of the Ontario College of Teachers as Vice-Chair of the Selection and Nomination Committee.

The theme of this year's International Women's Day - #BreakTheBias - encouraged people to imagine a world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination.

OISE alum Melissa Sariffodeen is the CEO and co-founder of Canada Learning Code, helping inspire young girls to overcome the "dream gap."

Dr. Tabi was recently appointed assistant professor at McGill in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education.

A young girl has a heartwarming reaction to seeing herself being represented in a new book series that celebrates Black identity.

Rich Baxter, Principal of Innovation in Education, and his team have won bronze at the Reimagine Education Awards for his program The Bootstrapping Checklist.