Professor Tya Collins’ endeavors as an educator span over a 20-year period in a range of settings that includes teaching and administration in preschool, primary, secondary, ESL, FSL, special education, vocational training, and university. She holds a PhD in Education from L'Université de Montréal and is a past SSHRC postdoctoral fellow of McGill University. Her research and pedagogy emphasize an interdisciplinary approach drawing from the fields of education, sociology, critical youth studies, Black studies, and disability studies. She conducts research in English and French and mobilizes Black affirming theories and methodologies to uncover systemic barriers in student educational pathways, to challenge social, political, and cultural norms, to position youth as knowledge generators, as well as to foster creative imaginings of racially just schooling and society. Some of her recent work focuses on the intersections of blackness, disability, language, systemic trauma, youth resistance to structural barriers and inequalities, and postsecondary outcomes. Professor Collins is also a community advocate, consultant, researcher, and partner with several organizations such as the Quebec Black Communities Observatory, the Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network, Avenues (an organization that supports minoritized youth making life-transitions), as well as the Ontario representative of la Fondation Desjardins Research Advisory Board.
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