Marsha Hinds Myrie will be presenting the next One Health seminar on Wednesday, November 13. Marsha is an Educational Developer, Anti-oppressive and Inclusive Pedagogies in the Office of Teaching and Learning at the University of Guelph.

Marsha Hinds Myrie’s life and work are an embodiment of dualities and intersections. She is a Barbadian/Canadian citizen with an ancestral, cultural, and intellectual home in Africa. Her career unfolds, sometimes spectacularly and sometimes confusingly, at the intersections of activism and education. She is a public intellectual steeped in the Caribbean intellectual tradition and critical studies.

Marsha spent 23 years developing an advocacy model to address the issues of underprivileged groups of women in Barbados and the Commonwealth Caribbean. The major focus of the work is to develop and encourage the use of victim-defined services for women and girls affected by various types of gender-based violence while at the same time removing the burden of eradicating violence from women and victims by forcing greater attention to systemic oppression and a stronger lobby in policy spaces.