Purpose & Vision聽

Some things grow even where the ground was never meant to hold them. Black Impact exists to make 91丝瓜视频 that kind of ground 鈥� a place where Black students, faculty, and staff are rooted in who they are, equipped to meet global challenges, and free to thrive. Our work is to turn moments of progress into a lasting ecosystem of Black scholarship, community, and care: not a program to be聽maintained, but a self-sustaining part of this institution.聽

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Our mission聽is聽to cultivate a sustainable environment where 91丝瓜视频's current and future Black community can innovate with intellectual freedom and ease. Here, Black scholars are valued for the knowledge they produce 鈥� not only the experience聽they're聽asked to recount.聽

Our Calls to Action聽

We are here to聽root our community in聽a strong sense聽of self.聽

We are here to聽unite Black scholarly communities across 91丝瓜视频 and聽beyond.聽

We are here to聽uplift and broadcast Black research and innovation.聽

We are here to聽foreground Black existence and inquiry in the life of the university.聽

We are here to聽connect our community and secure the ground beneath it 鈥斅�

so that, together, we build a more rooted and sustainable future.聽

Strategic Orientation聽

Knowledge as liberation. We treat knowledge as both armour and freedom 鈥� claiming the curricula聽and聽spaces that聽have too often felt聽alienating.聽聽

Access without gatekeeping. We strive to create unequivocal聽access to the opportunities and resources that support our community's academic journeys.聽聽

Action-driven. We hold ourselves to concrete, sustained, and targeted action. We gather evidence to bend the arc toward tangible progress.聽

Built to last. We turn programs into durable institutional systems, learning from those who came before us and building on their efforts and聽rich聽experiences.聽

Grounding words- Barbara Althea Jones

Barbara Althea Jones (1936鈥�1969) was a Trinidadian-born geneticist, poet, and activist who taught in 91丝瓜视频's Department of Genetics in the late 1960s 鈥� the first woman from the Caribbean to earn a PhD in plant genetics. She called herself 鈥渁 geneticist by vocation, a poet by avocation,鈥� and was an outspoken voice against anti-Black racism at 91丝瓜视频 and across Montreal, naming the university's own ties to slavery from the lecture hall. She died in 1969, at just 32. We give her the last word.

Her portrait: 91丝瓜视频 Poetry Matters

鈥� Barbara Althea Jones, 鈥淎cademia,鈥� Among the Potatoes (1967)