Announcing the 2022-2023 William Southam Journalism Fellows
Congratulations to the six incoming William Southam Journalism Fellows. The Fellows were announced at the annual Canadian Journalism Foundation Awards Gala on June 7th in Toronto. CJFE / Massey College Fellow, Zuhal Ahad (Afghanistan) Zuhal Ahad is a journalist from Afghanistan who has worked as a multimedia Women’s Affairs journalist with the BBC in Afghanistan. […]
Dr. Hadiya Roderique
Dr. Hadiya Roderique is an award-winning writer, consultant, advisor, researcher, and lawyer. Dr. Roderique was a Junior Fellow at Massey College from 2014 to 2019 and is a current Associate at McKinsey & Company. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Science from McGill University and is a two-time alumna of the University of Toronto with […]
In conversation with Dr. Chizoba Imoka
Dr. Chizoba Imoka is an award-winning advocate, educator, researcher, and an equity, diversity and inclusion consultant. She was a Junior Massey Fellow from 2013 to 2015 and 2017 to 2018, and is the Founder and Director of Unveiling Africa. Dr. Imoka is a two-time alumna of the University of Toronto and holds a doctorate in […]
Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
Dr. Wendell Ni Laryea Adjetey is a historian, humanitarian, and social entrepreneur. Dr. Adjetey was a Senior Resident Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Massey College from 2016 to 2017 and is currently an Assistant Professor of post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history at McGill University. Dr. Adjetey holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in History […]
Olugbenga Olubanjo, MA.Sc.
Entrepreneur, innovator, and CEO Olugbenga Olubanjo was an active Massey College Junior Fellow and committee member from 2017-2019. Mr. Olugbenga Olubanjo holds a Master of Applied Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with First Class Honours from the University of Ibadan. Mr. Olubanjo was […]
THE 2021 CBC MASSEY LECTURES | OUT OF THE SUN: ON RACE AND STORYTELLING
What happens when we begin to consider stories, and lives, at the margins of society? How does that complicate what we think we know about who we are — as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through visual art, literature and film, as well as her own personal experience, award-winning novelist Esi Edugyan’s 2021 CBC […]
Announcing the 2021-2022 Jack McClelland Writer in Residence
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and PEN/America Open Book Award, out now with McClelland & Stewart (Canada), Little, Brown (U.S.), and Bloomsbury […]
Announcing the 2021-2022 William Southam Journalism Fellows at Massey College
We are pleased to welcome the incoming William Southam Journalism Fellows to Massey College. Winners were announced at the virtual CJF Gala on June 9, 2021. MICHAEL BARCLAY is the author of the acclaimed 2018 national bestseller The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip, and co-author of Have Not Been […]
In Memory of Aaron Berhane (1969-2021)
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of former Southam Journalism Fellow, Aaron Berhane. Shockingly, Aaron died after a sudden illness in an Intensive Care Unit in Toronto on Saturday, May 1st. Aaron was awarded the 2003/04 Donner Canadian Journalists for Free Expression Fellowship at Massey after only having arrived in […]
Massey College Governing Board Elects New Chair and Vice-Chair
Governing Board of Massey College has elected a Chair and a Vice-Chair as well as Chairs for three standing Committees of the Governing Board. A call for nominations was sent out to the Board at the beginning of March and nominations were received by the Governance and Nominating Committee (GNC), which then considered the nominees […]
