Community: In addition, the Diversity Committee and its partners form an important audience segment as well as our collaborator. While they grapple with their own challenges of establishing themselves and dealing with the issues of racism, they also look to the university and the conference to help them make sense of the realities, and imagine new collaborative projects to move antiracism forward in the city. As well, they provide academics with concrete situations and experiences from which to evaluate and position our own research. The Diversity Committee is advisory to City Council; it was founded as the Race and Ethnocultural Relations Committee that became enlarged to focus on additional diversity and equity issues (e.g. gender, sexuality, disability, transgender equity etc.). The current Chair and other members, are seeking ways to rethink its relevance and usefulness in the city. They will provide a scan of the experience of anti/racism in Windsor and the lay of the land from a non-academic and policy perspective. The research team and other scholars will collaborate with the Diversity Committee to create future projects on antiracism and work with others such as Ontario Service Employees Union and other municipal divisions to visibilize their presence and increase their capacity to inform and challenge racism. Hence, the Diversity Committee will also be promoting the conference and recruiting participants from the municipality and unions to attend the conference, providing a space for exchange between academics and these policy makers and practitioners. If the research results are not ready on time, they will present on the issues and challenges of antiracism infrastructure and of representation.

Project Timeline (October 2020 to October 2021)

Oct - Nov 2020	Hiring of students; refining agreements with partner; clarifying roles for the project team members; finalizing participant list; student training;
December 2020 - January 2021	Regular project team meetings and meetings with the larger group of participants and other interested researchers/advisors Voice activities - collecting and sharing information of community/world events on racism; supporting campus activities (ex. organizing black history month); blogs; pitching opinion pieces to Windsor Star, Conversation, Rabble etc. Organizing pre-conference workshop
February 2021	Pre-conference workshop
March – May 2021	Regular project team and group meetings + ongoing voice activities Conference organizing
June 2021	Conference in downtown campus
July 2021	Post -conference writing workshop
October 2021	Submission of edited papers to University of Toronto Press

Tentative Agenda for Workshops and Conference

	Pre-Conference Workshop
9-9:30	Introduction
9:45 -10:45	Panel 1 (Jane Ku)
11:00 – 11:45	Panel 2 (Natalie Delia-Deckard)
12-1	Lunch
1-2 pm	Panel 3 (Camisha Sibblis)
2:15- 3:15 p.m.	Panel 4 (Sujith Xavier)