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Date: February 27, 2020
Venue: Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D214
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Speaker: El Jones, Mount St. Vincent University
“El Jones is the Black liberation visionary of our time”
– Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
El Jones, Mount St. Vincent University
The former Poet Laureate of Halifax, El Jones is also a journalist, activist, and academic. She holds the Nancy Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount St Vincent University in Halifax. A well-known researcher in the fields of prison justice and anti racism, she has addressed audiences all over Canada