Tanya de mello biography

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As the Vice President of Equity and Community Inclusion at Toronto Metropolitan University, I provide strategic leadership and direction for the achievement.

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Tanya (Toni) De Mello

Tanya (Toni) De MelloTanya (Toni) De Mello

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Anti-Racism

De Mello provides an extremely valuable interactive session on racism and how it is linked to current systems and institutions. Focusing on recent events, De Mello discusses anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity, islamophobia, anti-Semitism and anti-Chinese racism.

Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome is a widespread phenomenon that causes people to doubt their accomplishments and generates a persistent fear that one doesn’t belong or will be exposed as a fraud. Feelings of inadequacy and insecurity often persist in spite of success, which can have harmful psychological impacts and influence one’s self-perception and mental health and well-being. This session will provide an overview of the imposter syndrome and its psychological and sociol

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I am an intuitive, sacred visual artist and Reiki practitioner working on the South Coast.

My work brings together nature as a messenger and mandala as a container. To capture the liminal space that intersect when nature, spirit and self are deeply connected.

My practice is devotion, meditation, ceremony, intuition and prayer. I create layered and detailed works of which every mark is both metaphor and missive using watercolour, ink, pencil and acrylic paints working primarily on paper.

I was born on the vibrant coast of South India a landscape marked at every corner with temples, shrines, deities and alters these deeply embedded into my consciousness. However, moving to Australia as a child and awed by its landscape resonant with rugged beauty and mystery has brought an embodied and deeply felt experience of the divine.

My work is weaving together of these two powerful cultural and spiritual influences as I act as an emissary between realms so that the viewer is affirmed by the divine Life force that flows through everything and everyone.

I studied at the College of Fine

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Dr. Tanya (Toni) De Mello

Dr. Tanya (Toni) De Mello is a human rights lawyer with a unique background in economics, finance and operational management. With experience working in private, government and nonprofit sectors, she has co-founded two NGOs and worked internationally on three continents for the United Nations in humanitarian aid. In her role as vice-president, equity and community inclusion, she brings 25 years of experience in equity, diversity and inclusion and over 15 years working in administration of post-secondary education to help facilitate a human-rights centered campus, and build an equitable and inclusive community-focused decolonized university.

Dr. De Mello has been a valued member of the the TMU community since her arrival as director of human rights services in 2017 where she worked closely with campus administration, faculties, associations, unions and student groups to engage in programming, service delivery and curriculum development in order to operationalize diversity, equity and inclusion on campus.