Renata Hall

I am a second-generation cis-gendered Black, and queer, Toronto Born settler with Ghanian and Indigenous Guyanese (Amerindian-Akawaio) ancestry. I have lived most of my life in the Greater Toronto Area, the unceded land and territory of the Mississauga’s, Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg. I am honored to join the team and further grateful for the opportunity to explore my passions and make connections on the ancestral and unceded terrorist of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

I pursued and completed a Double Major Science Degree, in Biology and Psychology from Dalhousie University, spending roughly five years on the East coast. It was after the completion of this degree that my interests changed and became refined, so I relocated back to the Hamilton area to pursue Social Work. This led me down a beautiful academic path with McMaster University, where I attained my Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Social Work degrees, and I am now nearing the completion of my PhD in the Social Work Department. Throughout my educational experiences, I was a practicing social worker, in sectors of housing and homelessness, violence against women and gender-based violence work, mental health hospitals, and racial justice and trauma work, inevitably leading me to a position as Manager of Inclusion and Anti-Racism Education Programs and Sessional Instructor Positions at McMaster. I also engaged in private equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility consultancy and facilitation with community grassroots organizations and social service providers in the GTA. Altogether, these professional experiences allowed me to explore a deep passion for anti-racist and anti-oppressive methods and modalities to teaching and learning, which informed my call to UBC working with the CTLT, an appointment I am freshly holding as of June 2025! I am excited to contribute to the CTLT team and explore my pedagogical curiosities, which are currently invested in exploring the realm of arts-based pedagogies, CRIP pedagogies, queer pedagogies, pedagogies of the Global South and driving safe and brave learning spaces.