Teresa Macías is associate professor at the York University School of Social Work. She has a PhD from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE-University of Toronto. Her work deals with international human rights discourses, disappearances, torture, truth commissions, and compensation policies. Her research and teaching interests also include professional and research ethics, nation- and subject-making, and decolonial theories. She is the editor of Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences (Fernwood) and with Sobia Shaikh and Brenda François of Critical Social Work Praxis (Fernwood). She came to Canada as a political refugee and now lives in Ontario with her family.
Dr. Sobia Shaheen Shaikh is a faculty member at the School of Social Work at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a social work educator, antiracist-feminist activist, researcher, mother and writer. As a community-engaged researcher, Sobia’s work focuses on supporting anti-racist and social justice praxes. Her scholarship spans across many different social concerns, including racism and racialization, violence against women, girls and non-binary folks, resettlement and relocation policy in coastal Newfoundland and Labrador, transnational and global social and climate justice, disability-education policy and practice, and anti-racist and social justice praxes in advocacy and non-profit organizations