Speak Truth to Power: First of the Firsts, Black Women Leaders in Public Service
Mar 24, 2021
F or our first Speak Truth to Power Forum for 2021, we are pleased to have FIVE esteemed Black women leaders: The Honourable Dr. Mayann Francis, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, Yvonne Atwell, Dr. Lynn Jones, and Marelene Clyke.
This special episode of our series is being held in honour of Black History month (February) and Women’s History month (March). Through their inspiring stories, each of these leaders will share with the audience insights into the challenges they have faced and provide courage and wisdom to inform the way forward. At the same time, it gives Dalhousie an opportunity to recognize and pay tribute to those who have broken barriers and paved the way for so many others.
The event is both overdue and timely as just this month for the first time we have four highly qualified Black women appointed within the provincial public service in senior influential roles: Dr. Kesa Munroe-Anderson, Deputy Minister of Communities Culture and Heritage; Andrea Anderson, Public Service Commissioner; and Nicole Johnson-Morrison, Associate Deputy Minister of Labour and Advanced Education who join Deputy Minister Candace Thomas of the Justice Department who was appointed last year.
We expect that the Black women leaders on our panel will provide an unapologetic rigor of our racial and gendered history and an assessment of the institutional and cultural structures that have shaped the way we operate in today’s world.
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