*In April 2022, the university announced our new name of Toronto Metropolitan University, which will be implemented in a phased approach. Learn more about our next chapter.*
Prof. Karline Wilson-Mitchell
Karline Wilson-Mitchell, DNP, MSN, CNM, RM, RN has been practicing midwifery since 1992 and has been on the Midwifery Education Program Faculty at Ryerson University since 2008. She continues to support and mentor in the Chang School’s International Midwifery Preregistration Program (a bridging program for internationally educated midwives preparing for work in Canada). Karline has worked as a midwife, educator, global leadership trainer and curriculum developer in the US, Canada, Jamaica, South Sudan, Tanzania and Burundi. Her research partners include the University of West Indies, Jamaica; Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement; Rights for Children and Youth Partnership: Strengthening Collaboration in the Americas. Her current research project, the Canadian Midwives of Colour History Project, interrogates the hidden histories of racialized immigrant and refugee midwives working in Canada in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.