June 1, 2026, TORONTO 鈥� Birthed from a 1969 uprising as a response to police violence at a New 91亚色 City dive bar called the Stonewall Inn, Pride has grown into a global movement, with Toronto-area celebrations among the largest in the world. Drawing on years of community-engaged research and large-scale data sets, 91亚色 researchers are available to talk to media about historical struggles and current issues facing those in 2SLGBTQIA+ communities today.

Antony Chum

  (he/him, they/them) is the Canada Research Chair in Population Health Data Science and an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology & Health Science, Faculty of Health. His research focuses on LGBTQ+ health disparities and the structural determinants of health among marginalized populations, such as low-income, racialized, and gender-diverse groups. By applying quasi-experimental approaches to large-scale population datasets drawn from Census, linked health administrative, and international sources, Chum generates population-level evidence on how structural barriers and public policies shape health and related social and economic outcomes.

颁丑耻尘鈥檚 , "Beyond the Gender Binary: Wage Inequality and Occupational Segregation among Transgender and Nonbinary Workers," utilizes data from the 2021 Canadian Census, the first national census in the world to collect and identify data on transgender and nonbinary individuals. The study found significant employment and wage gaps, with transgender and nonbinary individuals being eight to 14 per cent less likely to be employed than cisgender men and earn 20 to 30 per cent lower hourly wages on average. Even after adjusting for demographic, occupational, and industrial factors, a substantial earnings gap remains, hitting nonbinary individuals assigned female at birth the hardest.

Chum is available to discuss other studies including:

• Upcoming research that demonstrates that progressive political environments act as crucial protective factors, actively mitigating the minority stress that drives elevated rates of suicidality and substance use in sexual minority populations
• Gender minorities facing drastically higher risks for physical, cognitive, and mental activity limitations
• Transgender and non-binary individuals facing significantly higher rates of housing instability than cisgender individuals
• Severe disparities in severe substance-related events, pinpointing bisexual women as facing the highest risk (more than double that of heterosexual women)

Jin Haritaworn

is an expert of gay imperialism, homonationalism and pinkwashing. They have studied the gentrification and securitization of the Church-Wellesley Village and look critically at the incorporation of Pride into the neoliberal city. They also explore queer of colour maps and counter-archives. Haritaworn is Associate Professor of Gender, Race and Environment in the Faculty of Environment and Urban Change. They locate their work in the tradition of activist scholarship, which attempts to be in the service of communities. Their research deals with landscapes that are shaped by racial and colonial capitalism, where celebration and incorporation exist alongside pathologization and criminalization. Their first two books, and , explore how certain mixed-race and LGBT subjects became desirable in a context of war on terror, neoliberal multiculturalism and the global city in London and Berlin.

Haritaworn is available to discuss:

• Gentrification and criminalization in the Village
• Queer of colour archives and activism
• Homonationalism and gay imperialism

Tom Hooper

(he/him) is a historian of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in Canada and a professor with the department of equity studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). His research includes exploring the 1981 bathhouse raids in Toronto where more than three hundred gay men were arrested and criminally charged for their sexuality, with a focus on the community resistance to these raids both on the streets and in the courts. Hooper critically examined the construction of dominant queer historical narratives, including the myth that legal changes in 1969 represented the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada. Hooper also investigated the use and misuse of heritage grants provided to 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations.

Hooper is available to comment on:

• 2SLGBTQIA+ protest movements
• Policing and pride
• 2SLGBTQIA+ history

Nick Mul茅

(he/him) is a professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies and the School of Social Work, LA&PS. He teaches sexual activism, and social justice. His research areas include advocacy, and the social inclusion 鈥� and exclusion 鈥� of gender and and sexually diverse populations (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, two-spirit, genderqueer, intersex, queer, questioning 鈥� 2SLGBTQIA+) in social policy and service provision and the degree of recognition of these populations as distinct communities in cultural, systemic and structural contexts. Mul茅 also engages in critical analysis of the 2SLGBTQIA+ movement and the development of queer liberation theory. Mul茅 is currently leading a national research project on poverty in 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, the first national study of its kind.

Mul茅 is available to comment on:

• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, Two-Spirit, intersex and queer issues
• Queer liberation theory
• 2SLGBTQIA+ health and social service concerns, public and social policy regarding 2SLGBTQIA+ people and communities
• History and politics of the 2SLGBTQIA+ movement
• Diversity in society and 2SLGBTQIA+ human rights

For information on Pride celebrations at 91亚色, please see here.

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91亚色 is a modern, multi-campus, urban university located in Toronto, Ontario. Backed by a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners, we bring a uniquely global perspective to help solve societal challenges, drive positive change, and prepare our students for meaningful life and career paths. 91亚色's Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. 91亚色鈥檚 campus in Costa Rica offers students exceptional transnational learning opportunities and innovative programs. Together, we can make things right for our communities, our planet, and our future.

Media Contact: Emina Gamulin, 91亚色 Media Relations, 437-217-6362, egamulin@yorku.ca

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Following the fatal Air Canada collision at LaGuardia Airport, questions are emerging about aviation safety protocols, emergency response coordination, aircraft systems and potential economic and regulatory implications for the airline industry. As investigators work to determine the cause, 91亚色 experts are available to provide context and analysis across these areas.

is a labour geographer and associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. He is a past spokesperson for the Toronto Airport Workers鈥� Council, an organization representing Pearson International Airport鈥檚 50,000 workers and its largest unions. He frequently provides media commentary on labour issues related to aviation, hospitality and service industries.

His research focuses on labour markets, employment relations and the geography of work, with a particular emphasis on trade unions and workforce dynamics in service industries. His work examines how working conditions, labour organization and economic restructuring shape industry performance, including in the transportation and hospitality sectors.

He is available to comment on:

• Labour dynamics in the airline industry, including working conditions, scheduling and workforce pressures
• The relationship between labour practices and operational performance in aviation
• Economic and industry impacts of major aviation incidents, including recovery, regulation and workforce implications

is an associate professor of Disaster & Emergency Management. His research examines disaster response operations, hazard mitigation and non-routine emergencies, such as transportation disasters and mass casualty incidents.

Rozdilsky frequently provides media analysis on public safety, emergency preparedness and crisis response, including the Delta Flight 4819 crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport last year.

He is available to comment on:

• Public safety and emergency response coordination following an aviation disaster
• Disaster management protocols, inter-agency collaboration and lessons learned from response efforts
• Risk management in high-reliability organization settings like airports

is a professor of Disaster & Emergency Management, executive director of 91亚色鈥檚 Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Simulation (ADERSIM) lab and director of CIFAL 91亚色, part of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) network.

An expert in disaster, emergency and business continuity management, Asgary鈥檚 work focuses on modelling, simulation and decision-support systems for crisis management. His research examines how complex emergencies, including aviation incidents, can be better managed through data-driven and AI-enabled planning tools.

He is available to comment on:

• Disaster simulation and emergency management systems
• Decision-support technologies and AI solutions for airport emergency response and recovery coordination
• Risk reduction, response coordination and recovery planning in complex emergencies

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July. 26, 2024, TORONTO 鈥� While the Olympics are a show of international friendship and athletic excellence, they are also about politics and diplomacy, tourism, social change and spectacle, and sometimes even espionage.

鈥淭he Olympics has the potential to be such a positive force for good in the world,鈥� says 91亚色 Faculty of Health Associate Professor , a three-time Olympic coach who teaches a course on the history of the Olympic Games and will be in Paris July 26 onward cheering on his daughter, . 鈥淓very Olympics strives to meet its ideals, and every Olympics falls short 鈥� but I am an optimist, I believe each Olympics gets better and better.鈥�

贬耻尘补帽补 and other 91亚色 experts are available to give comment to media on everything from nationalism in sport and why the economic pressures on athletes are getting even worse, to branding and tourism opportunities, the evolution of women鈥檚 basketball in Canada and how large sporting events intersect with sex tourism and displacement of low-income people, and more.  

Hern谩n 贬耻尘补帽补

贬耻尘补帽补, who helped Canada secure a bronze in the Atlanta 鈥�96 games, teaches in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science at 91亚色. He was an early coach for his daughter, who along with her Canadian beach-volleyball partner and fellow 91亚色 alumna Brandie Wilkerson, is currently ranked fourth in the world and is in Paris competing for a medal. 贬耻尘补帽补 played for the Chilean national volleyball team and came to Canada as a political refugee during the Pinochet years, a journey which he documented in his book Playing Under The Gun: An Athlete's Tale of Survival in 1970s Chile. He is available from Paris to comment on the history of the Olympics and how political and social events intersect and affect the modern games from their inception in the late 1800s to now. 贬耻尘补帽补 can also offer interviews in Spanish.

Topics he can speak to include: 

• History of the Olympics
• Sport and nationalism
• Gender issues in sport 
• Compensation and treatment of athletes

Parissa Safai 

The Canada Soccer drone-spying controversy is, in part, a great example of how much more aggressive Canada has become on the international sport scene in pursuit of wins, says , professor in the Faculty of Health and Chair of the School of Kinesiology and Health Science.

鈥淚n many ways, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics marked a pronounced shift in Canada鈥檚 attitudes towards success on the Olympic stage and our high-performance sport system became even that much more intentional about 鈥榦wning the podium鈥�,鈥� says Safai. 鈥淔or an athlete, gold medal-winning performances demand not just an unconditional commitment to physical training and skill development, but presuppose disposable money and disposable time, as the financial support from governments is just not enough.鈥�

Many athletes are highly reliant on their parents for financial support, and the costs of producing a gold-medal winning performance has gone up, adds Safai, putting more pressure on high-performance athletes, and making their finances even more precarious. Safai is an expert in the sociology of sport, health and social inequality. She is available for phone and video conference interviews and can speak to:

• Sports medicine and sports related pain and injury 
• Sport risk-taking
• Sport and social inequality and gender equity in sport 
• Barriers to physical activity in communities
• Sport policy and governance
  
  

Danielle Howard

In 2018, a U.S. conservative news commentator said that LeBron James should just 鈥渟hut up and dribble,鈥� after the NBA star gave his views about then-President Donald Trump in an ESPN podcast. 

Those comments inspired a documentary by the same name that explored the social and political influence of NBA players through the history of the league, which in turn was an inspiration for AMPD Assistant Professor 鈥檚 latest research at the intersection of race, sport and performance. 

鈥淭he documentary got me thinking, does dribbling have more to say about politics, about Black life, then we have initially given it credit for?鈥� 

Howard is working on a book called Making Moves: Race, Basketball, and Embodied Resistance that spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries of basketball history. She examines America鈥檚 history of white supremacy and how comments like 鈥渟hut up and dribble鈥� reflect a continued dismissal of Black lives and experiences, images of the Black body on display through history from slave auctions to NBA drafts and how audience and media surveillance impacts movement. 鈥淭he majority of bodies in the NBA are Black. So from a media standpoint, the majority of the media consumption we have of basketball is represented by Black bodies.鈥�

She also looks at how Black athletes speak with their bodies, and how politics, history and social movements are embodied in athleticism, from the New 91亚色 Renaissance basketball team to present times.

鈥淏lack performance in sport is not merely aesthetic, it has potential and purpose to be disruptive to the political and to ultimately incite change and liberation.鈥� 

Howard is available to comment on: 

• Race, politics and sport
• Sport as performance, particularly basketball
• Theatre and spectacle in the opening and closing Games
• Aesthetics and virtuosity in Olympic sports such as gymnastics, diving, synchronized swimming and breaking 
  

Vijay Setlur

 鈥淔rance is already the most visited country in the world, but hosting the Olympics would diversify the destination and its visitor economy,鈥� says , a marketing instructor at 91亚色鈥檚 Schulich School of Business specializing in sports marketing and tourism marketing. 鈥淧eople visit the country for its museums, galleries, architecture and culinary offerings, but Paris will now be able to attract more international sporting events to capitalize on the growing sport tourism segment and elevate its status as a sports city.鈥�

Setlur attended and gave commentary at FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and is also a consultant for Concacaf (Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football). Setlur is available to comment on:

• Canadian soccer drone scandal and how it might affect the perception of Canada Soccer and sponsorship activity
• Sponsorships and the Paris Olympic Games
• How the NFL and ICC are hoping to leverage flag football and cricket, making its debut at the LA28 Games, to engage younger consumers
• TV ratings and viewership of the Games
• Use of technology at the Olympics
  

Sarah Bay-Cheng 

鈥淔or me, sports is another kind of performance: It's aesthetic, it's time-based, there's an audience,鈥� saysProfessor , dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at 91亚色 and a former NCAA basketball player. 鈥淎s the playwright Sarah Kane once said, the difference between theatre and a football (soccer) match is that you don't know how the football match is going to end.鈥�

Bay-Cheng鈥檚 research focuses on the intersection of performance and media, including how digital technologies create performance conditions in museums and other cultural heritage sites. In this capacity, she is co-curating a gallery exhibition for the Museum of Toronto on the history of basketball in Toronto that will open in the spring of 2025.

鈥淚n Toronto basketball didn鈥檛 follow a linear development. Different versions of the game emerged at different times and in different places. Part of the work of preparing the exhibition has been to dig into the history of basketball in Canada and what has made Toronto such an exceptional place for the sport. As a former player, I鈥檝e been very interested in learning more about the history of women's basketball in Canada as relation to, but also very distinctive from the history of the sport in the United States.鈥�

Bay-Cheng is available to comment on the history of basketball in Canada, particularly the women鈥檚 game:

• The American and Canadian roots of the game
• How women鈥檚 basketball started among primarily white, upper-class women in the U.S., Ontario and eastern Canada, and why they were no match for a team from Western Canada that adopted a more aggressive style of play
• How Title IX in the U.S. was a game-changer for women鈥檚 basketball
• How both the men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 games have become more international, with training concentrated in NCAA schools
• Sports as mediated performance

Amanda De Lisio

During the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, Faculty of Health Assistant Professor  partnered with researchers in Rio de Janeiro to examine what happened with sex workers during the games.

鈥淥ne of the narratives that follows the sport mega event is related to the involvement of human trafficking,鈥� says De Lisio in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science. 鈥淲e work with people who are often the target of these anti-trafficking strategies to find out what is actually happening on the ground, are they being trafficked or exploited in their labour? And how their patterns of labour and migration in the city may change as a result of the mega event.鈥�

De Lisio is working with groups in Los Angeles, which will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the 2027 Super Bowl, and the 2028 Olympic Games to examine what is happening on the ground there ahead of the games. Her , published earlier this month, looks at the security apparatus of the Rio Olympics, and argues that 鈥渄espite the enormous investment and facade of newly militarized host communities, insecurities remained, and 鈥榮ecurity鈥� as a practice failed to be guaranteed.鈥� De Lisio is also available for interviews in Portuguese.                            

  She can comment on:

• Understanding sex work as labour in a vulnerable sector and how displacement brought on by mega-events affects sex workers and other communities
• Sport mega-event construction and the financialization of housing
• Local groups in Paris decrying Olympics-related displacement of low-income people
  

J-Rebel

A half century after the birth of Hip-Hop among mostly Black and Latino, working-class youth in the South Bronx, breaking makes its debut as an Olympic sport. For longtime breaker (Joseph Hersco) from the Supernaturalz Crew, who helped develop and co-taught a course on the art of breaking at 91亚色 with AMPD dance professor Mary Fogarty, he鈥檒l be watching the competition on Aug. 9 and 10 with a mix of emotions and criticisms. 

鈥淭here is a political side of Hip-Hop 鈥� it comes out of particular socio-economic conditions, right? I think a lot of that can easily get washed out, when the focus is around just who's winning in the competition,鈥� says J-Rebel, who lives and works in the Jane and Finch community in Toronto. 鈥淏ut those things are intertwined in breaking 鈥� the politics, the cultural aspects, race, class and gender.鈥� 

J-Rebel, who teaches kids breaking and has travelled the world by competing in international breaking competitions comparable to the caliber we will see at the Olympics, picked up the practice himself decades ago with peers and in community centres in Jane and Finch, Lawrence Heights and Malvern where he grew up and lived. He says that while breaking is more accessible to the youth in his community 鈥� predominantly low-income and working-class 鈥� than a sport like hockey or football, there are still barriers to who might be able to compete at the highest level due to social inequalities that are still present in many communities in Toronto. 

鈥淚t's not necessarily a predetermined thing because youth from these particular places have become resilient out of necessity, but your proximity to privilege and having resources is going to give you a better chance at developing your competencies.鈥�  

J-Rebel is available to comment on: 

• Origins and connections of breaking to hip-hop; roots in New 91亚色 and Black diasporic cultural expression 
• Why the Olympics need breaking and not the other way around
• Technical, cultural and social aspects of breaking 
• Ensuring access to breaking and sport in low-income and racialized communities. 
• History of breaking in Toronto 

Martin Breaugh

France was on shaky grounds ahead of the Olympics, politically speaking, but the ruling parties dodged a bullet in the snap election by blocking the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party from taking power, says Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies and an expert in French politics.  

鈥淭he presence of RN ministers at the Olympics would have been an impossible situation to manage with the potential of athletes boycotting such ministers, as well as local officials and maybe even delegations from elsewhere, especially the former French colonies, doing the same,鈥� he says. 

Breaugh is available for email, phone and teleconferencing videos and is currently on Central European Time six hours ahead of Toronto. He is also available for interviews in French and can speak on: 

• The political situation in France in the leadup to the Olympics
• How the handling of the Olympics will impact public perception of the government
• History of politics in France
  

Satinder K. Brar 

Despite France spending more than $1.5 billion in cleanup efforts to get it in good shape before the start of the Olympics, the Seine continues to experience problems with water pollution, with the men鈥檚 triathlon posted this week due to unacceptably high levels. Lassonde School of Engineering Professor is an expert in environmental biotechnology and decontamination, with particular expertise in water. Brar is also available for interviews in French, Hindi and Punjabi, and can comment on: 

• Cleanup efforts of the Seine
• Waste water contamination and potential risks to athletes
• Other pollutants sometimes found in urban bodies of water

Lyndsay Hayhurst 

For 15 years, Faculty of Health Associate Professor聽has been聽collaborating聽with聽self-identified women and youth聽in聽Canada,聽Uganda and聽Nicaragua聽to聽investigate the role of sport for social justice and 鈥榙evelopment鈥�. This includes examining cycling as a possible catalyst for achieving mobility justice and gender equity; investigating how community sport for development programs may create novel possibilities for feminist climate-justice activism; and addressing physical inactivity among marginalized youth and women (cis and trans) through the use of trauma-and violence-informed approaches.

鈥淲e're arguing that these , and that certainly flies in the face of some of the approaches to coaching and sport that we sometimes see are taken up at the Olympics,鈥� says Hayhurst, also the 91亚色 Research Chair in Sport, Gender and Development & Digital Participatory Research. 

Hayhurst and collaborators just launched a short documentary film - - and she is available to comment on:

• Sport and gender equity
• Gender-diverse youth and sport
• Trauma-and-violence-informed approaches to sport, recreation and leisure

• Sexual and gender-based violence prevention聽in/through sport for development
• Climate change initiatives聽and 鈥榞reenwashing鈥櫬燼t the Paris Olympics
• Sport for development and peace initiatives and NGO activisms
• Community sport and recreation initiatives, especially cycling and soccer
  
  

Please check your inbox or online for updates to this roster. 

For a list of some of the 91亚色-affiliated athletes and medical team members participating in the Games, .

About 91亚色

91亚色 is a modern, multi-campus, urban university located in Toronto, Ontario. Backed by a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners, we bring a uniquely global perspective to help solve societal challenges, drive positive change, and prepare our students for success. 91亚色鈥檚 fully bilingual Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario鈥檚 Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. 91亚色鈥檚 campuses in Costa Rica and India offer students exceptional transnational learning opportunities and innovative programs. Together, we can make things right for our communities, our planet, and our future.

Media Contacts: Emina Gamulin, 91亚色 Media Relations and External Communications, 437-217-6362, egamulin@yorku.ca

About 91亚色

91亚色 is a modern, multi-campus, urban university located in Toronto, Ontario. Backed by a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners, we bring a uniquely global perspective to help solve societal challenges, drive positive change, and prepare our students for success. 91亚色鈥檚 fully bilingual Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario鈥檚 Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. 91亚色鈥檚 campuses in Costa Rica and India offer students exceptional transnational learning opportunities and innovative programs. Together, we can make things right for our communities, our planet, and our future.

Media Contacts: Emina Gamulin, 91亚色 Media Relations and External Communications, 437-217-6362, egamulin@yorku.ca

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National pan-university program backed by $1.2 million from RBC Foundation as part of RBC Future Launch

TORONTO, Oct. 5, 2021 鈥撀�91亚色 is launching聽a three-year initiative聽to enhance the representation of Black youth at universities across Canada by supporting upper-year high school students as they plan for their future such as pursuing post-secondary education or work 鈥� and aiding in the transition and retention of those who pursue university. The initiative is led by Professor Carl James, 91亚色鈥檚 Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora in the Faculty of Education. James has focused on addressing systemic barriers and racial inequities for over a decade and a recent聽聽from the RBC Foundation, as part of聽, is allowing this work to go national.

鈥淲e鈥檙e starting to see some attention to streaming 鈥� the process of placing students into academic or non-academic oriented classes based on their assumed intellectual abilities. The Ontario government鈥檚 announcement about ending academic streaming starting with the Grade 9 math curriculum this September as well as a ban on suspending young students is an okay start. However, we have a long way to go. Black students across Canada continue to report racial inequities and experience barriers in the education system,鈥� says聽, whose 2017 groundbreaking research revealed Black students are being disproportionately streamed away from academic programs and suspended at significantly higher rates than white or other racialized students.聽The report,聽, used data to show poor outcomes for Black students and that current students were experiencing worse outcomes than their parents and grandparents.

James is bringing together Kevin Hewitt, Physics Professor from Dalhousie University; Juliet Daniel, Associate Dean of Research from McMaster University; Jennifer Adams, Canada Research Chair in Creativity & STEM and Associate Professor from University of Calgary; and Annette Henry, Professor, Language and Literacy Education from University of British Columbia, who share a commitment to addressing the educational issues of Black youth to further the systemic anti-Black racism work of individual institutions, including interventions and research. The research component will build on existing Canadian census data with a longitudinal study of grade 11 and 12 students over a three-year period, informing the development of new community-based and student-support programs, and will for the first time facilitate the sharing of documentation and data across Canadian universities 鈥� allowing for geographical and contextual comparisons to be made. For example, James is particularly interested in the experience of second-and-third generation Black students and how the impact of generational status compares between Toronto and Halifax.

In 2020,聽RBC聽聽to address the inequity and systemic bias that have disadvantaged Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) individuals and youth. As part of this commitment, RBC committed to providing $50 million in focused funding through RBC Future Launch to create meaningful and transformative pathways to prosperity for 25,000 BIPOC youth by 2025.

鈥淓nsuring聽that Black students have equitable access to opportunity is critical to building strong, inclusive communities,鈥� says Mark Beckles, Vice-President, Social Impact & Innovation, RBC. 鈥淲e are working closely with our partners, including many BIPOC-serving organizations, to enable access. RBC鈥檚 support of the now national work of the Jean Augustine Chair will help to ensure that present and future generations of Black talent can reach their fullest potential.鈥�

The initiative will kick off on Oct. 6 with a national conversation hosted by 91亚色 and the RBC Student Success Initiative and Data Hub.

奥贬础罢:听Securing Black Futures: A National Partnership to Advance Youth Academic & Career Success

奥贬贰搁贰:听This event will be livestreamed via YouTube聽. Questions can be submitted in advance to聽yuevent@yorku.ca.

奥贬贰狈:听Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, at 7 p.m.

About 91亚色

91亚色 is a modern, multi-campus, urban university located in Toronto, Ontario. Backed by a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners, we bring a uniquely global perspective to help solve societal challenges, drive positive change and prepare our students for success. 91亚色's fully bilingual Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. 91亚色鈥檚 campuses in Costa Rica and India offer students exceptional transnational learning opportunities and innovative programs. Together, we can make things right for our communities, our planet, and our future.聽

Media contact:聽Kayla Lewis, 91亚色 Media Relations, cell 416-455-4710,聽lewiskay@yorku.ca

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91亚色 U marketing expert available for interviews

TORONTO, November 22, 2017- The biggest holiday shopping weekend of the year is just days away and between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many brands are looking to cash in on consumers hungry for bargains. But with online shopping trends continuing to grow, are shoppers still buying-in?

Markus Giesler, chair and professor in the Marketing Department of the Schulich School of Business

Markus Giesler, chair and professor in the Marketing Department of the Schulich School of Business at 91亚色, can speak about the decline of Black Friday and the resistance around the biggest shopping day. His research focuses on market creation, customer experience design, and cultural innovation and he was also recently named 鈥�. He is available for interviews on the following topics related to Black Friday and holiday shopping:

• Deal culture and rituals
• The history of Black Friday
• Overconsumption, materialism
• The customer experience

聽is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91亚色 students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91亚色 U is an internationally recognized research university 鈥� our 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni. 91亚色 U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contact:聽

Anjum Nayyar, 91亚色 Media Relations, 416 736 2100 ext. 44543聽anayyar@yorku.ca

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TORONTO, Nov. 22,聽2017 鈹� 91亚色 Professor , Director of the , will be available to comment to media following the federal government announcement of a long-awaited national housing strategy.

An expert on homelessness and housing issues, Gaetz can comment on the causes of homelessness, including poverty, and the need for a national approach that addresses聽 not only emergency housing needs, but prevention.

聽is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91亚色 students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91亚色 U is an internationally recognized research university 鈥� our 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni. 91亚色 U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contact:
Janice Walls, Media Relations, 91亚色, 416-455-4710, wallsj@yorku.ca
N.B. Professor Gaetz will be attending the federal government announcement and will be available onsite.

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TORONTO, September 22, 2017 鈥� 91亚色, one of the host venues of Invictus Games 2017 that get underway this weekend at the 91亚色 Lions Stadium, has a number of Faculty of Health experts who are available to speak about sports-related topics including injuries and their physical, social and psychological impacts.

, Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Lifespan Health and聽Performance Laboratory at 91亚色. He is available to comment on cognition in sport and sports psychology. His research examines the acquisition and maintenance of skill performance聽across the lifespan, particularly how models of athletic performance can help understand the limits of human potential. He has worked extensively with both able-bodied athletes and athletes with a聽disability and is a world-leading authority on athlete development.

, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, is available to comment on the socio-cultural study of risk and risk-taking in sport. Her research focuses on cultures of risk, pain and injury, as well as the social determinants of athletes鈥� health, and the social organization of sport medicine in Canada. She can provide insight on the lived experiences of high performance athletes around pain and injury and how the material conditions of high performance athletes鈥� lives impact their health and well-being.

, Professor in the Department of Psychology, Glendon Campus, 91亚色, has done research and published widely in the area of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and psychological injury. He is president of the Association for Scientific Advancement in Psychological Injury and Law (www.asapil.net), dedicated to promoting scientific understanding of psychological injury, particularly as it relates to legal issues. He is also editor-in-chief of the association鈥檚 journal Psychological Injury and Law.

, Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, is available to speak to the impact of concussions in athletes and recovery time. She can speak about brain control of eye-hand/foot coordination and how this may vary in female and male athletes.

Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, is available to comment on musculoskeletal injury, the psychology of the injured athlete, the psychological aspects of performance, sports trauma and medicine. She conducts research in the area of psychology of injury and has presented at seminars and conferences around the world.聽She has expertise in sports medicine and sport psychology, in developing integrated rehabilitation programs for injured athletes.

is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91亚色 students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91亚色 U is an internationally recognized research university 鈥搊ur 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni. 91亚色 U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contacts: Anjum Nayyar, 91亚色 Media Relations, 416 736 2100 ext. 44543 anayyar@yorku.ca

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TORONTO, September 19, 2017 鈥� Today鈥檚 kids are highly technology savvy, but they are often inclined to use technology just for entertainment, such as playing video games. Education can also be made entertaining and fun for this generation of children by integrating technology into learning, says Professor Jennifer Jenson in the Faculty of Education. She is available for sharing her expertise with media on the below topics:

• Technology integration and implementation in K-12 schooling
• Use of technologies to support and enhance learning
• Video games and learning, including gender biases
• Teacher training and technology
• Education and new media
• Technological change and education

is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91亚色 students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91亚色 U is an internationally recognized research university 鈥� our 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni. 91亚色 U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contacts:
Gloria Suhasini, Media Relations, 91亚色, 416 736 2100 ext. 22094, suhasini@yorku.ca

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TORONTO, Tuesday September 12, 2017 鈥� With school classes in their second week, many parents will be enrolling or have already enrolled their children into a variety of extracurricular activities or sports for the new school year.聽 Between which activities and how many, parents and children aren鈥檛 making the decision alone.

The following 91亚色 Faculty of Health experts are available for interviews regarding sports and physical activities for children and teens:
is an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at 91亚色.聽 Her research interests focus on the critical study of sport at the intersection of risk, health and healthcare.聽 This includes research on sports鈥� 鈥渃ulture of risk鈥�, the development and social organization of sport and exercise medicine, as well as the social determinants of athletes鈥� health.聽 Her research and teaching interests also centre on sport and social inequality with focused attention paid to the impact of gender, socio-economic, and ethnocultural inequities on accessible physical activity for all.聽 Her work has been published in such journals as the Sociology of Sport Journal, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sport History Review and the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien鈥� d'histoire de la m茅decine.

 
is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at 91亚色.聽 Her research focuses on understanding health promotion and the development of optimally effective health promotion messages targeting psychosocial predictors of behavior and is particularly interested in health promotion among special populations (e.g., people with SCI, MS), as well as children and youth.

 
is an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at 91亚色. Her research focuses on children's involvement in organized sport; specifically, parents and coaches' roles in children's sport and development trajectories, dropout from sport, and positive development through sport.聽聽 Currently she is working on projects exploring preschoolers' introductions to organized sport, and characteristics of programs that may facilitate development within special populations and communities.聽 She is a member of the LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research and the PYD SportNET research group.聽 She recently co-edited Health and Elite Sport: Is High Performance Sport a Healthy Pursuit? (2015). She is a recipient of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology Young Scientist Award and the Province of Ontario Volunteer Service Award.

聽is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91亚色 students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91亚色 U is an internationally recognized research university 鈥� our 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni.聽91亚色 U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contact:

Anjum Nayyar, Media Relations, 416-736-2100 ext. 44543, anayyar@yorku.ca

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As parents and students alike get ready for their first day and week back to school, many moms and dads will be getting out their phones and cameras to capture the moments and feelings of this new school year. Scrolling through friends鈥� and family members鈥� social media feeds may also make parents feel聽 pressure to share pictures of their children on social media on the first day of school.

The following 91亚色 U Faculty of Health expert is available to speak to this issue:

, is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at 91亚色.聽 She is an active clinician and researcher. Her research has focused on the role of emotional dependence and self-criticism in the occurrence of major depression.聽 Professor Mongrain鈥檚 research has been widely disseminated in empirical journals and media outlets. She is also an active member of the Association for Psychological Science, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the College of Psychologists of Ontario.

• What is the craze to share first day photos online?
• Can sharing photos and viewing them add to anxiety related to first week of school?
• Can there be a pressure to share first day photos on social media? What is the impact on parents鈥� emotional well-being?
• How parents鈥� and kids鈥� experience of the back-to-school craze can be different

is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91亚色 students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91亚色 U is an internationally recognized research university 鈥� our 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni. 91亚色 U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contacts: Anjum Nayyar, 91亚色 Media Relations, 416 736 2100 ext. 44543. anayyar@yorku.ca

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