Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon is an assistant professor of African Canadian History at York University. She also specializes in the development of learning materials that focus on the African Diasporic experience. Henry-Dixon is the author of Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada (June 2010), Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada (January 2012), Early Societies: Africa, China, and Europe (2013). She also wrote The African Diaspora (2014) and African Canadian Firsts (2014) in the Sankofa Black Heritage Collection by Rubicon Publishing. Firsts received the 2014 Gold Medal Moonbeam Children's Award for Multicultural Non-Fiction. Dr. Henry-Dixon Natasha has also written several entries for the Canadian Encyclopedia and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography on African Canadian history. She is an award-winning curriculum developer and was the 2017 recipient of the ETFO Curriculum Development Award. Henry-Dixon has developed the educational resources for several exhibits and web-based projects on the Black experience in Canada. Through her various professional, academic, and community roles, Dr. Henry-Dixon’s work is grounded in her commitment to research, collect, preserve, and disseminate the histories of Black Canadians.