About the Guest Editors

Abstract

Leigh Brownhill is a scholar, editor, and a tutor in Sociology, Communications, and Environmental Studies at Athabasca University. Her research and activism focus on contemporary and historical liberation and decolonizing movements, peasant and industrial-world agro-ecology, ecological and energy sovereignty, and the eco-feminist politics of eco-socialism. She is Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism; author of Land Food Freedom: Struggles for the Gendered Commons in Kenya, 1870-2010 (African World Press, 2009); and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on Ecosocialism (2022).
Angela Miles is a founding member of Toronto Women for a Just and Healthy Planet, Antigonish Women’s Association, Feminist Network for a Gift Economy and a member of the editorial board of Canadian Woman Studies. She is Professor Emerita at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto where she co-founded the International Women’s Human Rights Education Institute. Her publications include Integrative Feminisms: Building Global Visions and the edited collection Women in a Globalizing World: Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace.
Dr. Kimberly L. Todd is a former elementary teacher. She has taught in South Korea, The United Arab Emirates and in a First Nations Community in Saskatchewan. She has completed her PhD in the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE. Her research areas include the intersections of teacher praxis, dreaming and decolonization. She is currently a Faculty Fellow at Niagara University.
Njoki Wane, PhD, is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and an
accomplished educator, author, researcher, and educational leader. She was the Chair of Social Justice Education. An award-winning teacher, Professor Wane was the recipient of many awards, the most recent ones, in 2025 Afro-Shushaa Award; in 2024 were: Renaissance Award Afroglobal Television; Academic Excellence Award, Edo Language Day Worldwide and in 2023: Legend Award, University of Toronto Alumni; Black History Champion & leadership Excellence Award. She is well published (23 books, co-edited and single-authored), with her most recent edited book being Education, Colonial Sickness: Anti-Colonial African Indigenous Project.