Highlights from the 2020 School of Cities Urban Leadership Fellowship and Academy Virtual Research Festival! 

Convener: Prof. Marieme Lo, Associate Director, Education, education.sofc@utoronto.ca

PAST SESSIONS

SESSION 3 Friday, September 25, 2020 11:00am – 12:30pm
Session Details	Presenter	Presentation Title
	Mischa Young	The True Cost of Sharing: a Detour Penalty Analysis Between UberPool and UberX Trips in Toronto
	Judy Perpose	Rebuilding Toronto's Gig Economy: Reimagining Social Policy for Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work
	Lubna Alli, Thomas Elias Siddall, Victoria McCutcheon, Brittany Livingston, Ali Sajid Cities of Inequality, Urban Solidarities, and Community Activism

SESSION 6 Friday, October 16, 2020 2:30pm – 4:00pm Special guest: Professor Shauna Brail, Associate Professor Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto
Session Details	Presenter	Presentation Title
	Michael Cameron McCulloch	Beyond Bike Lanes: Cycling Exclusive Infrastructure for Safer, More Sustainable Cities
	Martha Cabaero, Arina Dmitrenko, Rahemeen Ahmed, Aurora Bolianatz and Elisabetta Campagnola Infrastructure and Design / Design, Technology and Urbanism
	Ze Xi (Jessica) Ye	Sim George: Toronto From Home
	Christine Balt  Creative Cities: Cultural Growth in Complex Adaptive Cities	The Alternative Maps Project: How Artists Can Help Us Imagine Livelier and Greener Toronto After COVID-19

WORLD CITIES DAY

Friday, October 30, 2020
1:30pm – 2:10pm

Join us to mark and reflect on World Cities Day! 

Join our students and virtual community in a collective visioning exercise, “My City- My Story: One City, One Word” event. The aim of this naming and visioning exercise is to bring together diverse communities,  reflect on the symbolism of the day, share stories, and identify  a critical urban challenge, concern or excitement about one city that you are passionate about. Free and open to all and all languages.
 

With performances from special guest artists!

Marieme Diop  – Los Angeles based singer and songwriter

Marieme is a dynamic, innovative, buzzed about singer/songwriter with a presence at once as glamorous as she is brutally honest in her music. With music focused on themes of Self Love, Revolution, and Empowerment, this Senegalese-American songstress is making a name for herself with her signature sound featured on film and television and most recently as the voice of LinkedIn’s international campaign.

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Denardo Hepburn - Storyteller and spoken word artist original spoken words performance

Denardo Hepburn is a curious storyteller who explores the cross-sections of culture, humanity, expression, and art. He writes and performs poetry and prose celebrating blackness and Caribbean life; edits everything from books to essays to press releases; acts in stage plays with television and film aspirations; enjoys public speaking; produces; and is presently creating his debut podcast, which underscores the Bahamian diaspora in Canada and their successes, tribulations, and reasons for emigration. As a diasporic Bahamian in Toronto, Hepburn preserves The Bahamas’ culture through storytelling. His poetry mainly explores the juxtapositions of existence, blackness, Caribbean-ness, and modern-day life. In his quest to find his calling, he has served as a Foreign Service Officer, a Priority Manager, an Editor-in-Chief, and a Research Assistant, all while amassing provocative stories.