*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.*
Dr. Dawn Onishenko
Dr. Dawn Onishenko is an ecofeminist who has been a social justice activist in the areas of gender, women in conflict with the law, anti-poverty, housing and homelessness, HIV/AIDS and queer rights. Her doctoral thesis entitled, Equality Rights/Equal Marriage: Site of Counter-Hegemonic Organizing or Agency of Domestication and Assimilation: Breaking the Binaries provides a critical examination of the link between judicial discourse/activism and strategies of resistance. Onishenko’s academic interests include social movements and social change, citizenship and civic engagement, equality rights, systemic discrimination, oppression and marginalization, the inherent dignity of the human person and the role of jurisgenerative politics/praxis in bringing about social change.
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.