News & Stories: Alumni and Friends

U of T congratulates Brenda Registe, an OISE alum, for receiving a 2021 Excellence Through Innovation Award.

Following an overwhelmingly successful crowdfunding campaign, a scholarship fund has been created in honour of the late Fariah Haque Chowdhury, an OISE alumna who was a trusted community member involved a number of social justice movements. Fariah passed away in 2020.

Valle’s professional and creative initiatives highlight the road Canada must take to make education equitable, Indigenous communities whole, and gender more just.

Master of Teaching graduate Athena Tassis is using technology to enrich her teaching, creating projects like a virtual museum for social issues while fostering a strong commitment to transforming education.

By establishing a bursary for Indigenous (First Nations, Métis and Inuit), Black Indigenous and Taino students, Professor Erica Neeganagwedgin is looking to tell a different story.

Mani is well known for his many contributions within classes, but also for his commitment to student life within the Department of Social Justice Education and OISE.

They each have PhDs from OISE and work in education today, but Valerie Lopes and her daughter Krista Holmes took different paths to the present.

Identity in education: how one SJE grad is changing the conversation about Roma youth in Canada.