Sarah George is a PhD student and contract instructor in the department of Sociology at Carleton University. She teaches a third year sociology course about race, gender, and class. Her areas of interest are African studies, Black studies and sociology of race, gender and knowledge. Her thesis examined Black consciousness, anti-Blackness, activist leadership and the formation of Pan-African political solidarity amongst African, Caribbean and Black people in Ottawa. She is the founding chair of the Institute of African Studies Emerging Scholar Conference and co-founder of the Umoja Black Community Engagement Program at Carleton University. Sarah has also served as the President of the Institute of African Studies’ Graduate Student Association. She faciliates a course on Transatlantic enslavement at Algonquin College.