Community Engaged Learning Coordinator
Kevin Edmonds, PhD
Kevin Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning and Caribbean Studies (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Toronto, specializing in Caribbean political economy, community histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and the region’s radical political tradition. His publications include “Beyond Racial Capitalism: Cooperatives in the African Diaspora” (co-authored with Caroline Shenaz Hosein and Sharon Austin), “Guns, Gangs and Garrison Communities in the Politics of Jamaica at the Turn of the Century”, and “Beyond Good Intentions: The Structural Limitations of NGOs in Haiti“. He also has extensive experience organizing with several grassroots organizations within the Caribbean as well as with Toronto’s Caribbean community.
Contact Information:
kevin.edmonds@utoronto.ca
nc.engagedlearning@utoronto.ca
Previous Community Engaged Learning Faculty
Chris Ramsaroop is working to complete his PhD at OISE/University of Toronto. His area of research examines the role of resistance by migrant farm workers in Canada. Chris is also an organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers. He is also an instructor in the Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Toronto and a clinic instructor at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law.
Justicia for Migrant Workers is a grassroots activist collective that has been organizing with migrant workers for nearly 20 years. Justicia’s work is based on building long term trust and relationships with migrant workers and includes: engaging in direct actions, working with workers to resist at work, launching precedent setting legal cases, and organizing numerous collective actions.