undergraduate student and the Collaborative Research Group (internal grant) student to engage in antiracism initiatives and developing their “voice”. The internal grant student will be liaising with this project to provide effective overlaps and meet specific objectives of the other project. However, she will also have access to the training structure being created here. The MA/UG student team keeps the group apprised of ongoing developments, community events and developing their informed and reasoned perspectives/positions. The doctoral student will plan and coordinate the conference. She will also help finalize the book manuscript. She will support the team in bringing together a collection of recommended antiracist readings. These activities will help students get familiar with the scholarship generally so as to develop their curiosity in future training and scholarship development. These students are also active in the ongoing activities and meetings of the network so that their involvement is over the long term and range of activities, thus building a long-term association with critical race scholarship.

Capacity to provide training:

Ku will coordinate and plan the overall project with the assistance of students and the research team.

She will be training the doctoral students in collecting, consulting and sharing information on antiracism, and to support their scholarly paper development. Ku’s background in working across different communities in Windsor and other cities (Moncton, Peterborough, Toronto), and in bridging Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, organizing Women’s and Gender Studies events and community forums will be utilized to support the training structure and organization of this project. Moreover, her collaborative research projects with academics in different disciplines (e.g. Social Work, Anthropology, Sociology, Communication Studies) all contribute to her ability to work across differences and mentoring junior scholars in the teams. Her scholarship bridges feminism, antiracism and intersectionality while also teaching and supervising undergraduate and graduate students in sociology as well as in Women’s and Gender Studies. Besides research grants, she has also created opportunities for student training through work-study grants and community-based grants.

Sibblis will directly supervise the undergraduate students; she is already a sponsoring faculty member of the student-initiated annual event Making It Awkward: Conversations about Race. Her background in antiracism training can be specifically applied to helping students develop their antiracist voice and capacity. She also supervises graduate and undergraduate social worker placement students.

This mentoring will overlap with her student training role here.

Delia Deckard brings with her an American perspective on antiracism that she will use to enrich our Canadian critical race scholarship. Her experience working with various equity and antiracism committees in academic societies and her editorial work on The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity provides a good understanding of academic structures, mentoring and scholarly process. She will bring this to her organizing of the pre-conference workshop and help the training of the undergraduate students in event planning.

Xavier will coordinate the post-conference workshop. His previous experience and knowledge in organizing an international conference through a SSHRC Connection grant will be an invaluable resource throughout this project for students and other scholars. His student assistant will be on loan to the project. Along with Ku, Xavier will be supporting this project in the funding application process, in the implementation of the process, in getting a contract with a book publisher and in the editing process.

The scaffolding of the writing process is useful not just for junior scholars but for all involved through peer engagement and critique.