About Us

Community-Centered Knowledges: Fostering Black Wellness in Montreal is a SSHRC-funded collaboration bringing together, primarily, Black thinkers, organizers, and individuals with lived experience. This community-university research project focuses on creating sustainable, race-aware, and equitable solutions to address the wellness needs of Montreal’s Black community.

The project aims to achieve four objectives: 

(1) to understand how members of diverse Black communities in Montreal describe themselves; 

(2) to understand and address the impacts of intersectional anti-Black racism on Montreal's Black communities and the ways wellness plays a part; 

(3) to identify and articulate how Black-serving organisations in Montreal respond to the diverse wellness needs of Black communities; and 

(4) to mobilise and disseminate approaches to racial and healing justice and wellness rooted in the knowledges of Montreal's Black communities.