Handel Kashope Wright is Senior Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence, Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education and Professor of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia. He is also Senior Research Associate, Department of Communications Studies, University of Johannesburg and Distinguished Fellow - Emengini Institute for Comparative Global Studies.  He is co-editor of the book series African and Diasporic Cultural Studies (University of Toronto Press) and Associate Editor of the journal Critical Arts and serves on the editorial board of several cultural studies and education journals and book series including Cultural Studies, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, the Canadian Journal of Education and Postcolonial Studies in Education, the University of East London’s Radical Cultural Studies and Cardiff University’s Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics (both Rowan and Littlefield book series) . Prof. Wright has published extensively on continental and diasporic African cultural studies, cultural studies of education, anti-racism, multiculturalism and qualitative research. His publications include authorship of A Prescience of African Cultural Studies (Peter Lang, 2004) and co-editorship of Africa, Cultural Studies and Difference (Routledge, 2011); Precarious International Multicultural Education (Sense, 2012); Transnationalism and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2012); The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses (Peter Lang, 2012); The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent and Beyond (University of Toronto, 2014) and The Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (University of Toronto Press, 2021). His work in progress includes a co-edited book on Black British Columbia (Fernwood, forthcoming) and An Anthology of African Cultural Studies (Routledge, forthcoming). Wright’s community engagement includes service on the City of Vancouver’s External Advisory on Equity and Diversity and membership on the British Columbia Ministry of Education’s Roundtable on Anti-racism Education.