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ABOUT NATASHA HENRY-DIXON
​Natasha Henry-Dixon is an assistant professor of African Canadian History at York University. She also specializes in the development of learning materials that focus on the African Diasporic experience. She  is the author of  Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada  (June 2010), Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Freedom in Canada  (January 2012),  Early Societies: Africa, China, and Europe (2013). Natasha also wrote  The African Diaspora (2014) and African Canadian Firsts  (2014) in the Sankofa Black Heritage Collection by Rubicon Publishing. Firsts received the 2014 Gold Medal Moonbeam Children's Award for Multicultural Non-Fiction.  Natasha has also written several entries for the Canadian Encyclopedia on African Canadian history. She is an award-winning curriculum developer and was the 2017 recipient of the ETFO  Curriculum Development Award. Natasha has developed the educational resources for several exhibits and web-based projects on the Black experience in Canada. Through her various professional, academic, and community roles, Natasha’s work is grounded in her commitment to research, collect, preserve, and disseminate the histories Black Canadians.