Numbers and Racial Data Collection

As anti-Asian racism and the Black Lives Matter movement have dominated conversations about race across Canada, it is timely to examine how the use of data collection can help to better understand hate crimes and racial injustice. Historically, there are a myriad of ways that data and racial categories have legally, politically, and economically served to exclude and discriminate. At the same time, while racialized communities across the nation are left to proactively gather their own hate-crime data as evidence of targeted discrimination and violence, it is important to consider appropriate and adequate ways to resource and collect that information while preventing its improper use now and in the future.

Join us for a two-part series of panel discussions with researchers and community organizers hosted in collaboration with the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, Langara College Centre for Intercultural Engagement, and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden.

part 1

part 2

Date: July 9, 2020
Time: 5:00PM (PDT)
Location: Online

Date: July 23, 2020
Time: 5:00PM (PDT)
Location: Online

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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/

Panelists for missing numbers

Photo Credit: Hogan's Alley Society

June Francis - Dr. Francis is an Associate Professor of Marketing and is the Co-Founder of The Co-Laboratorio project that works to strengthen cross-sector collaboration, learning and innovation — for more inclusive resilient solutions in governance, policies and industry practice. She is also Director of the Institute for Diaspora Research and Engagement at SFU. She is an advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion for racialized groups as well as the advancement of non-traditional intellectual property law related to community well-being and cultural and human rights through her research, consulting, the media and as a volunteer. (From Hogan's Alley Society)

Amy Go - Ms. Go is the President of Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice. Chinese Canadian National Council educates, engages and advocates for social justice and equity for all in Canada www.ccncsj.ca.

Amy is a social worker by training and has dedicated her professional career to serving immigrants and seniors. For over three decades, Amy has advocated for social justice and rights of women and racialized communities through her leadership role in national, provincial and local service and advocacy organizations. Amy was one of the leaders of the campaign that successfully obtained redress for head tax and Chinese Exclusive Act. Amy is the recipient of Canada’s Birthday Achievement Award, the Woman of Distinction Award from YWCA Toronto and Immigrant Success Individual Award from Toronto Regional Immigrant Employment Council. Amy is currently providing consulting services to facilitate organizational strategic development, program planning, development and review as well as development of culturally appropriate geriatric care

Representative of Project 1907 - Project 1907 a community-led, grassroots data project is trying to fill that gap by collecting data on racist experiences that Asians in Canada can experience everyday. (https://www.project1907.org/)

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/