Today Dr. Pascale Dangoisse joins Radamis. She's a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Communications Department and her research has often focused on women’s rights in Canada, the role of feminism in liberal political discourse and the relationships between the media, state, and citizenry in liberal democracies like Canada.

Dr. Dangoisse has been a research assistant with the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada (LGLC) project since 2018. She’s also a contributor to the academic journaling website The Conversation, where she’s written numerous articles.

Today, Radamis is joined at CHUO 89.1 FM's studio in the sub-basement of uOttawa's Morisset Library to discuss her research. She's a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, specializing in African history, refuge-seeking and human rights history, with a focus on international solidarity and anticolonialism.

She’s an established and prolific author, with her most recent single-authored work being 2013’s Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State-Building in Cameroon. She served as the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Rights from 2016 to 2021 and is currently leading the Visa Barrier research initiative.

Terretta is also involved in the Frontiers of Belonging International Research Training Group, a collaborative training initiative for doctoral researchers in social sciences from the University of Ottawa, the University of Douala - CERDYM, and the University of Ghana, Legon, aiming to center local processes and histories deliberately.

Today, we’re joined by Dr. Monnica Williams, a trailblazer in the field of mental health and equity. She’s a clinical psychologist and Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Innovation and Equity at the University of Ottawa, where she leads groundbreaking work at the intersection of culture, race, and mental health.

Dr. Williams has spent her career breaking down barriers in psychology, from helping redefine how we understand racial trauma, to exploring the role of psychedelic medicines like MDMA, ketamine, psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasca in healing deep emotional wounds. She’s also one of the few researchers working to ensure people of colour are included in psychedelic medicine studies, an area that’s long lacked diversity.