Massey OCAD Fellow

Camille Isaacs is an Associate Professor of English at OCAD University in Toronto, specializing in postcolonial and Black diasporic literature. She is deeply committed to equity work at OCAD, co-chairing the university’s response to the Scarborough Charter. She is currently contracted to write an a Introduction to Black Canadian Literature with Routledge Press.

Massey Toronto Metropolitan University Fellow

Dr. Tavallaei is a Canada Research Chair in Systems and Devices for Cardiovascular Interventions (Tier II) at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering. He is also a visiting Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute, an Associate Professor (status-only) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, and an Affiliate Scientist at the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science. Dr. Tavallaei has been engaged with multiple medical device startups, and he is currently the President and co-founder of Magellan Biomedical Inc.

Massey Western University Massey Fellow

Dr. Claire Houston is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Western University where she teaches and researches in family law and children’s law. She is a past recipient of the Western Law Dean’s Research Fellowship and Western University Marilyn Robinson Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Houston completed her SJD at Harvard Law School, where she was a Julius B. Richmond Fellow at Harvard University’s Centre on the Developing Child. She is a former law clerk to justices of the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Massey Western University Fellow

Alissa Centivany, an Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies at Western University, conducts impact-oriented research on technology policy, law, and ethics, motivated by interdiscplinarity, curiosity, and care. She holds a PhD (Information) and a JD specializing in intellectual property and technology law. Prior to joining Western, Centivany was a Microsoft Research Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC-Berkeley School of Law, a researcher at the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She is a founding co-director of the Starling Centre for Just Technologies & Just Societies, co-founder and executive director of CanRepair, co-chair and core expert in the AI Insights for Policymakers Program, and is an active member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. She participates regularly in Canadian policy consultations on emerging tech issues in the domains of AI, repair, interoperability, and durability. Centivany has provided expert testimony before federal and provincial governments, successfully advocating for reforms to Canada’s Copyright Act and provincial Consumer Protection Acts. Her expertise is recognized internationally with invited presentations to the G20 and United Nations, and participation in U.S. and EU policy consultations.

Massey OCAD University Fellow

Suzanne Morrissette, (she/her) is a Red River Métis artist, curator, and scholar who is currently based out of Toronto. She is currently Associate Professor at OCADU University and Chair of the Indigenous Visual Culture BFA program. As an arts-based researcher Suzanne’s interests include: reciprocal and gift economies, equity and diversity, pedagogies of parenting, as well as culturally informed governance models in the arts. As an artist she works across media to produce artworks that reflect upon metaphors for the knowledge. Her book, But have we arrived? explores the liberalism’s failed promises to Indigenous artists.