Featured Alumni
Get to know our OISE alumni and see how they stand out in professions across the globe. Would you like to be featured? Email us at alumni.oise@utoronto.ca and we will help tell your story.
For more than three decades, OISE alumnus Dr. Glen Jones has quietly helped shape how universities understand themselves. From his early days as a student leader to his tenure as Dean of OISE, here's how he rose to one of Canada’s most influential voices in higher education policy and governance.
OISE alum Dr. Jillian Roberts is on a mission to help kids live in our changing world. An expert contributor to Globe and Mail, Today's Parent, and more, Roberts asks her readers: how can we set our children on a path to becoming problem solvers who care?
Prior to his executive roles at Change.org, OISE alum Benjamin Joffe-Walt spent eight years as an award-winning war reporter and human rights journalist in Africa and the Middle East.
Marcus Singleton, a hip hop artist who wrapped up a master's degree in education from OISE in 2020, wants to continue a tradition of artists who devote themselves to education in the classroom and beyond.
Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, OISE alum Ceta Ramkhalawansingh is a human rights advocate, community activist, feminist and former city councillor. Ceta worked at Toronto City Hall from 1981 to retirement in 2010, and was appointed as a City Councillor in 2014. Read more about the trailblazer in this U of T profile from 2017.
A bilingual dictionary sparked alum Yecid Ortega’s journey from violence-stricken Bogotá to educator, inspiring his work in multilingual learning and justice.
Dr. Afua Cooper is leading a national research and education project dedicated to making Black history accessible to the public. Here's why she says understanding Black history in Canada has never been more urgent.
OISE friend Joanne Sallay left the banking industry to realize she had the same entrepreneurial spirit as her mother, who credits much of their family's tutoring business expansion to Joanne. That – and a willingness to make early bets on technology.
Almost 15 years ago, Jennifer Sylvester was a single mother working in social services when she was accepted into U of T’s Transitional Year Programme – a bridge to university for students who left school early. Now, the MEd graduate, who is of Anishinaabe descent, has returned to pursue her PhD in social justice education and teach university students who remind her of her younger self.
'Combating hate and celebrating queer joy as resistance': OISE alumna Dr. JJ Wright has been named one of Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40. Dr. Wright, a scholar, advocate and graduate of the Department of Social Justice Education, is currently a professor at MacEwan University, teaching and researching in the areas of sociology and gender studies.
Dr. Tanitiã Munroe, who completed her PhD in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education (LHAE), focuses on Black youth in education.
Sarah Jones and Rebecca Schmor, longtime collaborators, have been appointed co-editors of J-BILD – a semi-annual open access, collaborative peer-review journal.
