The Royal Society of Canada names two new members

By RON FANFAIR
Dr. Caroline Hossein has been elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
“I am thrilled to share that my work has been formally recognized,” she said.
An associate professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto campus, Hossein founded Diverse Solidarity Economies (DiSE) Collective that comprises 25 anti-racist feminists writing on and/or working on economic development with a focus on cooperatives and informal collectives.
She is the recipient of the 2020 Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) African Diaspora Special Group’s Emerging Scholar Award that recognizes the value of cooperative and collective institutions led by Black people who reside in the Global South and the Americas.
Graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (Honors) from the University of Kent at Canterbury, Hossein acquired a scholarship to pursue a Master of Public Administration degree at Cornell University’s School of Public Administration & Public Policy in Ithaca, New York.
After completing her graduate degree, she worked for 16 years in global non-profits, including managing a West African village bank in Niger and serving as a senior microfinance consultant with the Waterloo-based Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) before using her University of Toronto PhD completed in 2012 to embark on an academic career.
Joining Hossein as an RSC member is Dr. Bukola Salami who is a professor in the University of Calgary’s Department of Health Science.
She is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in Black peoples’ and immigrant health whose work has contributed to the first mental health clinic for Black Canadians in Western Canada and the first fully interdisciplinary university-based mentorship program for Black youths in Canada.
Salami is a product of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine Summer Mentorship Program (SMP) designed to offer a focus for students with both an interest and aptitude for the sciences, particularly for those who otherwise would not have available mentorship opportunities.