Due to high interest, we have recorded the discussion panel to share. The slides that were used in this panel are shown prominently within the discussion. You can also find a copy of the available Powerpoint Presentations below.
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Panelists for Negative numbers
Photo Credit: Philippe Kirsch Institute
Avvy Go - Currently the Clinic Director of Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, Ms. Go specializes in immigration, human rights, and employment law. Her expertise derives from working exclusively in the legal clinic system with low income immigrants and refugees. Elected several times as a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), she also serves on its Access to Justice and Equity and Aboriginal Issues committees. Ms. Go is an adjudicator with the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and a member of the Health Services Appeal and Review Board. She has served on the Board of the Ontario Justice Education Network, the Advisory Council of the Canadian Human Rights Museum, and now the Community Council of the Law Commission of Ontario. After years of involvement in many social justice initiatives, Ms. Go co-founded the Colour of Poverty Campaign in 2007. Ms. Go lectures and publishes on a range of subjects, notably legal and policy issues affecting immigrants and racialized communities and has been highly awarded for her legal and advocacy efforts. Ms. Go received her B.A. in economics and management studies from the University of Waterloo, LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School. (From Philippe Kirsch Institute)
Kimberlyn McGrail - Dr. McGrail is a Professor in the UBC School of Population and Public Health and Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, and Scientific Director of Population Data BC and Health Data Research Network - Canada. Her research interests are quantitative policy evaluation and all aspects of population data science. Kim is Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Population Data Science, the 2009-10 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Associate in Health Care Policy and Practice, 2016 recipient of the Cortlandt JG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2017 recipient of a UBC award for Excellence in Clinical or Applied Research, and in 2019-2020 participated as a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Task Force on AI4Health.
Full Biography: https://chspr.ubc.ca/about/people/core-faculty/kim-mcgrail/
Full Biography: https://chspr.ubc.ca/about/people/core-faculty/kim-mcgrail/
Photo Credit: VCH
Marilyn Slett - Marilyn is a citizen of the Heiltsuk Nation and the elected chief councillor of the Heiltsuk Tribal Council. She is currently serving her third consecutive term as chief councillor, beginning in 2008 and following previous positions as tribal councillor and executive director of the Heiltsuk Tribal Council. She is also currently the president of Coastal First Nations, on the board of directors of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, the co-chair of the Wild Salmon Advisory Council to British Columbia, and she has served as the B.C. women's representative on the Assembly of First Nations Women's Council. (From Vancouver Coastal Health)
Moderator
Dr. Henry Yu - As a founding member of CCHSBC, Henry has been a long-standing and active member of our board and the Chinese Canadian community for the last sixteen years. Over the years, Henry has been the Co-Chair of of the City of Vancouver's "Dialogues Between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities in Vancouver" and the Province of BC's Legacy Initiatives Advisory Council, served on various City of Vancouver committees that advised on historical discrimination against Chinese people, and Vancouver's Historic Chinatown. In addition to all his community engagement work, Henry is an Associate Professor in History and in Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies (ACAM), the Director of the Initiative of Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC) and the Principal of St. John's Graduate College at UBC.
Full Biography: https://history.ubc.ca/profile/henry-yu/
Full Biography: https://history.ubc.ca/profile/henry-yu/
