Inclusive Faculty Service
This year, Dr. Dongning Yu completed the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) module offered by American Accounting Association (AAA).
Dr. Atefeh Mashatan was advisor to the Mastercard Emerging Leaders in Cyber Initiative (ELCI) program which supports the development of female-identifying executive leaders in the cybersecurity industry.
Dr. Bouchaib Bahli represented the department of Information Technology Management as an EDIA representative in TMU workshops and hiring committees, where he made sure that EDIA principles and policies were taken into consideration in the hiring process.
Faculty regularly volunteer their time on equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives and take part in training.
Dr. Patricia Hania, is a current active member of the Ontario Bar Association as Chair of Aboriginal Law Executive (2023/24 term), in addition to participating in the National Support Committee Resettling Afghan Women Judges in Canada committee and the University Placement Team on the Canadian Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges. She is also the Law & Business Department's Lead on Indigenizing the Curriculum Project.
Dr. Deborah Fels is a member of the ACVREP Audio Description Subject Matter Expert Committee (external link) . Fels is also the Co-Chair of the Body of Knowledge Group, consulting with the American Council of the Blind in creating an audio description certification process (since April 2019) and for the Graphic Interface Conference (since 2020). She has also been a member on the Program Advisory Committee for VR/AR program at Humber College (since 2018) and on the Steering Committee for Understanding User Responses to Live Closed Captioning in Canada (since 2016) and is a Scientific advisor for the Play-by-play captioning research project lead by Canadian Association of the Deaf (since 2019) and SeeLogics Inc. (since 2019). She also continued to sit on the Steering Committee for Understanding User Responses to Live Closed Captioning in Canada (since 2016).
