2022-23 GCCA Governing Committee
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science
OCAD University
A sociologist and former environmental campaign director, her research focuses on race and social movements and the shortcomings of equity and diversity efforts in organizations. Her forthcoming book, ‘You’re Calling Me a Racist?’: the emotional landscape of racial encounters, will be published by New York University Press (2023).
Associate Professor
OCAD University
Founding Director of Puckett Research+Design, a design practice focused on creating dynamic links between software, robotics, biological agents, chemical engineering, and material behaviour that generate new potentials for the design of intelligent environments. Nick is currently an Associate Professor in the Digital Futures program.
Managing Director
Bathurst Quay Silos
Jennie Suddick is an artist, educator, and community organizer based in Toronto, Canada. She has exhibited and led projects throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. She is currently Manager, International Projects & Partnerships (OCAD U) and is pursuing her PhD in Education at University of Ottawa.
Chair – Indigenous Visual Culture program
OCAD University
Chair of the Indigenous Visual Culture program and Interim Advisor to the Provost on Indigenous Knowledge, Practices, and Production, Susan Blight is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, photography, film and social practice. Her research includes visual and spatial formations of Anishinaabeg geographies of resistance.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science
OCAD University
Dr. Clarke is an Associate Professor of Biology and Sustainability. He received his PhD in Biochemistry from Queens University and has an AOCAD in Printmaking from OCAD University. He has served as an Interim Dean and Associate Dean at OCAD U. He trained as a Biologist at the Design Table (BaDT) at the Biomimicry Institute in Montana. He is part of the After Oil Collective and works with the Petrocultures Research Group at the University of Alberta. His research interests at OCAD U focus on Urban Ecology and Urban Agriculture with a specific focus on food systems as a cultural adaptation to the climate crisis and is developing new forms of low carbon emission, Non-Toxic, photographic chemistry for artists (green photo chemistry).
Advisor – Strategic Sustainablity
OCAD University
Victoria Ho is OCAD University’s Advisor of Strategic Sustainability within the Office of Diversity, Equity & Sustainability Initiatives (ODESI). Victoria’s role is to work collaboratively across disciplines and departments to embed sustainability into curriculum, building operations, and administration. Victoria researches and provides advice on the nexus of sustainability and equity, campus as a living lab approaches, and constituent engagement models to facilitate sustainability projects, activities, and participation.