Breaking News Experts
Portland protests
The following is a list of University of Toronto experts who can comment on a variety of issues related to Portland protests.
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cannabis
- Crime
- Criminal justice
- Defunding police
- Drug policy
- Drugs
- Policing
- Protests and marches on both sides of the border
- Race and crime
- Race and racism
- Racialized law enforcement
- Racism and criminal justice
- Rayshard Brooks
Office: 416-978-7124 ext.240
Website
Email: a.o.bempah@utoronto.ca
Dexter R. Voisin
Dean and Professor, Sandra Rotman Chair in Social Work
Areas of Expertise
- Gangs
- Gun control
- Historical and present day connections to police brutality towards the black community
- Mass shootings
- Mental health
- Psychology of racism in America and structural violence
- Racial inequality
- Racialized populations
- STI/HIV prevention
- Structural and neighbourhood violence
Office: 416-978-0100
Website
Email: media.relations@utoronto.ca
Jeffrey Reitz
Professor of Sociology, Public Policy and Governance
Director of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Employment (especially of immigrants)
- Human rights
- Immigration
- Immigration policy
- Management of diversity issues
- Multiculturalism in western countries
- Race and ethnic relations: human rights
- U.S. race relations
- Workplace issues
Office: 416-946-8993
Home: 416-465-5596
Email: jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca
Jooyoung Lee
Associate Professor of Sociology
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Crime victims
- Gangs
- Gun Violence
- Guns
- Hip Hop
- Mixed martial arts
- Murder
- Police reform
- Racism
- RCMP’s treatment of Indigenous people
- Serial killers
Office: n/a
Mobile: 416-402-5191
Website
Email: jooy.lee@utoronto.ca