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Adwoa Afful

Junior Fellow

Adwoa Afful was born and raised in Toronto. She earned her BA from McGill University and recently completed the MSc Pl program in urban planning at the Department of Urban Planning and Geography at the University of Toronto. She is especially interested in examining the growing role that technology is playing in urban planning and community building and its implications for Black communities, women, and gender non-binary people across the GTA. She is looking forward to exploring these subjects and others through a health equity lens as a Junior Fellow at the Wellesley Institute.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.