Shellene Drakes-Tull

Shellene is a writer, communications consultant, educator, and a strategist at Evenings & Weekends Consulting. She is a contributing columnist at the Toronto Star and a freelance journalist who has shared the stories of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Globe and Mail, Toronto District School Board, Deloitte, and others. She is also a sessional lecturer and the creator and instructor of the Modern-Day Griot Project at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus, teaching about the stories of Black Canadians to change the narrative of Blackness in Canada.