Christopher Stuart Taylor completed his PhD at Western University (Canada) in History and Migration & Ethnic Relations (MER). He currently teaches at the University of Waterloo in the Department of History and the Arts First program. He is also a facilitator with the City of Toronto’s Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit.

His book, Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians, is available from Fernwood Publishing.

He also worked in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) and began his career as a Policy Coordinator Intern in the Deputy Minister's Office at the Ministry of Labour. He was the Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator in the Ministry of the Attorney General's Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility Office; a Senior Policy Advisor at Ontario's Anti-Racism Directorate; and Manager of Social Justice & Change Cluster at the Ontario Correctional Services College

Twitter: @DrCSTaylor

Mike grew up in Minneapolis, where, before finishing high school, he had his first teaching experience in ESL for post-Vietnamese war Hmong refugees to the US. Mike has been blessed to have been teaching and learning and serving in various formal and informal contexts ever since, calling Minnesota, New York, Nebraska, and most recently Ontario Canada #home along the way. Mike studied English at the University of Minnesota and Rhetoric and Composition at SUNY Albany. When he is not working in the Educational Technology domain or coaching young hockey players, Mike spends his time with and for #family — with a very expansive definition of family.