The City of Toronto government is seeking new members for the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee. Knowledge Holders, community leaders, professionals, students, youth, elders, business owners, people with disabilities, newcomers, Francaphones, Somalis and other continental Africans, academics, etc are all encouraged to apply by April 11, 2023
The Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee provides advice to City Council and serves as a convening table to advise on inter-government and institutional work on anti-Black racism in sectors such as education, child-welfare, policing and the justice system, housing, and employment. In doing so, the Committee can further build on the objectives of the Toronto Action Plan to Confront Anti-Black Racism by supporting the implementation of the themes of the United Nations’ International Decade for People of African Descent, namely, “Recognition, Justice, Development”.
The mandate of the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee is to provide advice to City Council:
The Advisory Committee is composed of 14 public members and one Member of City Council. The public members will include the following:
The Chair will be a Member of City Council. At its first meeting or as soon as possible after, the Advisory Committee will elect a member of the public as co-chair.
Public members are appointed for a term coincident with the term of City Council. The Advisory Committee will meet until the completion of its mandate or the end of the current City Council term, whichever comes first.
In addition to the general eligibility requirements set out in the Public Appointments Policy, members should be comprised of community and policy leaders with lived experience and/or expertise in issues of Black communities’ and reflecting the diversity of Black communities, including:
The advisory committee will meet up to four times per year at the call of the Chair. Meetings take place during business hours and will be approximately 2-3 hours.
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