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*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.*

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Welcome to TMCIS

Dr. Sara Edge

Associate Professor
DepartmentGeography & Environmental Studies; Associate Director Centre for Studies in Food Security
OfficeJOR 626A
Phone416 979 5000 ext. 556173
Areas of ExpertiseEnvironmental justice and health equity; health, inclusion and resilience of immigrant and refugee populations; food security; collaborative governance and decision-making; urban inequalities and sustainability

Dr. Sara Edge is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and Associate Director with the Centre for Studies in Food Security. Her overarching program of research and teaching seeks to advance understandings of how and why urban environmental risks and injustices are inequitably distributed across society and space and related health inequalities. Sara works in partnership with local non-profits and governmental organizations to understand and strengthen community-based efforts and innovations to improve health equity and sustainability. Sara's work also examines how the built environment and socio-cultural factors interrelate to facilitate and/or constrain the health, empowerment, inclusion and/or exclusion of equity seeking populations.

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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.