ABOUT NATASHA HENRY

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Natasha Henry  is the president of the Ontario Black History Society. She  is an educator, historian, and curriculum consultant, specializing 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.  Natasha is currently an occasional elementary teacher.

Natasha is available for school presentations and board-based teacher training. Contact her today for further information: fundi_edu@hotmail.com