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Diverse Economy Conversations for Youth

This unique podcast will highlight academics and leaders in the field of feminist political economies. This season’s interview series will be hosted by Serena Bahadur, and is funded by the CRC in Africana development and feminist political economy.

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Season 3

Returning Host Serena Bahadur

@SerenaBahadur

Featured
Esther Enyolu
Esther Enyolu

Episode 4.

Esther is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre, or WMRCC, of Durham.

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Mabinty Bangura
Mabinty Bangura

Episode 3.

Mabinty is a Toronto-based, passionate member of the Banker Ladies Council and a life-long advocate of susus or ROSCAs.

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Juliet 'Kego
Juliet 'Kego

Episode 2.

Juliet’s life-long and cross-cultural experience with ROSCAs, or money pooling systems, have allowed her to craft a unique take on how its users can unite regardless of their racial or cultural affiliation. Along with our host, Serena Bahadur, they explore the role of multicultural integration in the social innovation of our money pooling systems.

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Season 2

  • The DISE Collective and The Diverse Economy Conversations for Youth Podcast would like to welcome our new host for Season 2, Serena Bahadur!
    Serena is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the department of International Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Toronto. Her ambition and zeal have driven her to the Research Assistant and podcast host position for the DiSE Collective with Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein. Serena hopes to inspire her own and the next generation of youth to engage with and tackle the systemic and racialized barriers of labor, education, and law. Her areas of research interests are Global North/Global South relations, immigration patterns, and project management. Serena’s next step is to obtain her master’s degree. Her biggest goal in life is to learn how to help mold the world into a place that helps us instead of harms us.

    @SerenaBahadur

DEFY-S2
Dr. Atyeh Ashtari
Dr. Atyeh Ashtari

Episode 7.

Dr. Atyeh Ashtari is an Iranian professor of City and Regional Planning. She recently completed her doctoral degree in Urban Planning at the University of Illinois.

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Dr. Beverley Mullings
Dr. Beverley Mullings

Episode 6

Dr. Mullings is a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. Her work as an economic geographer has always highlighted the importance of voice, and has garnered her the Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award. She is currently co-chairing the Association of American Geographers Mental Health and Academy Affinity Group. 

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Dr. Caroline Hossein
Dr. Caroline Hossein

Episode 5

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Dr. Suzanne Bergeron
Dr. Suzanne Bergeron

Episode 4

Economics is usually taught as if we all interact with the economy in the same way, even though we know it is not “one size fits all”.

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Season 1

Season 1 with Host Arishi Dahiya
Dr. S. Charusheela
Dr. S. Charusheela

Episode 8

Dr. S. Charusheela holds a PhD in Economics and is a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science at the University of Washington, Bothell.

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Dr. Abhilasha Srivastava
Dr. Abhilasha Srivastava

Episode 7

Dr. Srivastava is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the California State University in Fresno. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the American University in Washington DC. And her areas of interest include political economy, the economics of caste/race, class and gender, feminist theory, as well as development economics.

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Dr Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Dr Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Episode 6

Dr Jessica Gordon Nembhard is Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College, of the City University of New York (CUNY). Dr Gordon Nembhard specializes in community economics, Black Political Economy, and popular economic literacy.

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Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina
Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina

Episode 5

Insights from Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina, who serves as the Executive Director for the Worker Institute, School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, where she oversees the management of the Institute’s vision and mission to advance collective bargaining, working rights, economic and racial justice.

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Dr. Talia Esnard
Dr. Talia Esnard

Episode 4.

Dr. Esnard is a senior lecturer and Head of the Department of the of Behavioural Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Dr. Christabell PJ
Dr. Christabell PJ

Episode 3.

Dr. Christabell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Kerala, India.

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Dr. Sharon D. Wright Austin
Dr. Sharon D. Wright Austin

Episode 2.

Dr. Wright Austin is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, and a member of the DISE Collective. Her research centres on the areas of African American politics, gender and politics, Southern politics, and urban politics.

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Dr. Michelle Stack
Dr. Michelle Stack

Episode 1

Dr. Stack is an associate professor at The University of British Columbia, in the department of Educational Studies, and a member of the DISE Collective.

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Student Voices

What Does It Mean to Study International Development?

A discussion amongst undergraduate students at the University of Toronto (Scarborough) - Friday, September 30th, 2022.
This virtual forum was hosted by the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences, and curated by University of Toronto -Scarborough undergraduate Arushi Dahiya. Participants were Amrith David, Amber McNeil, Kate Forrest, Kibati Femi-Johnson and Afshana Miah.

This event was a collaboration between the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences, the University of Toronto Scarborough, and the SSHRC and CRC in Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy.