Intersectionality | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Kashoro Nyenyezi

rebsl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:26:21 +0000

Kashoro Nyenyezi is an academic and practitioner specializing in Social Justice Education, violence prevention, and institutional leadership. Her research centers on African and Black feminist theory, examining the intersecting experiences of racialized women in global leadership roles. She explores the impact of "global greed" and colonial legacies on institutional policy. As a leading scholar on land, gender-based violence, and decolonial praxis, she investigates the transformative potential of women's leadership in conflict-affected and diasporic communities.

Keywords: Violence Prevention, Qualitative Research, Black Feminist Theory, African Feminism, Decolonial Praxis, Intersectionality, Colonial Legacies and Global Greed, and Conflict-Leadership Communities

Dee Marksman-Phillpotts

rebsl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:35:41 +0000

Dee Markman-Phillpotts (they/them) is a Black, trans, non-binary educator, researcher, and community advocate whose work centers Black trans life, collective care, and liberatory futures. A PhD student with a background in social work and sexuality studies, their research examines how intersecting systems of anti-Black racism, gender-based violence, queer and transphobia, and poverty shape the lived realities of Black and marginalized communities.
Grounded in Black feminist methodologies and abolitionist praxis, Dee’s scholarship interrogates dominant discourses that render Black trans people hypervisible as sites of harm yet invisible in policy, care infrastructures, and knowledge production. They are particularly interested in how communities cultivate survival strategies, mutual aid networks, and embodied practices of care that challenge carceral logics and reimagine safety beyond the state.
Through teaching, community-engaged research, and public scholarship, Dee works to bridge academic and grassroots spaces, insisting that knowledge is most transformative when it is accountable to the communities from which it emerges.

Keywords: Black Trans Studies; Queer of Colour Critique: Black Feminist Thought; Intersectionality; Anti-Black Racism; Gender-Based Violence; Abolitionist Frameworks; Transformative Justice; Collective Care; Critical Pedagogy; Anti-Oppressive Education

Yvette Nkurunziza

rebsl — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:00:03 +0000

Yvette is a PhD student in Global Health at �첥��Ƶ. Her research will assess the association between socioeconomic status, intersectionality and Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among people living with HIV in Rwanda. Yvette has a Masters in Global Health Delivery, Gender and Sexual Reproductive Health track from the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Warwick, in the United Kingdom. Her previous work involved clinical work in Rwanda, and served Rwanda Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance in areas of women cancer screening. Her prior research experience includes a research that explored socio-ecological factors that contribute to intimate partner violence among people living with HIV in Kayonza district, Rwanda, and another done with Partners In Health which assessed the effect of nurturing care intervention provided by expert mothers on maternal depression and parenting confidence in rural Rwanda.

Keywords: Intersectionality, socioeconomic status, people living with HIV, Tuberculosis treatment outcomes, Rwanda

Lydie Koblan Huberson

rebsl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:13:00 +0000

Lydie Koblan Huberson is a doctoral candidate in Industrial Relations at Université Laval. Her research focuses on the structural barriers and opportunities for Black women accessing executive positions in the public sector, comparing France and Quebec. With a background in human resources and organizational development, Lydie combines academic rigor with practical expertise to explore issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. She has presented her work at international conferences and contributed to impactful initiatives, including a forthcoming documentary on Black women’s experiences in the Quebec labor market. Lydie is committed to advancing systemic change through interdisciplinary research and collaboration.

Keywords: Black Women, Public Sector, Executive Leadership, Structural Barriers, Equity and Inclusion, Intersectionality, Comparative Analysis, Systemic Change, Organizational Dynamics, Labor Market Disparities

Ruth Murambadoro

rebsl — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:36:13 +0000

Ruth Murambadoro is a Black political feminist and seasoned public speaker whose scholarship sits at the intersection of feminist theory, politics, and justice. Her work interrogates the structures of power and oppression that shape the lived experiences of marginalized communities in the Global South—particularly women in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms at Memorial University of Newfoundland, located in Mi’kma’ki—the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq and Beothuk peoples.

Her growing body of work includes the monograph Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and the co-edited volume The PhD Experience in African Higher Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Ruth also contributes thought-provoking essays to platforms such as Kujenga Amani, Africa Is A Country, and Herizons, among others.

A former board member of the Zimbabwe Peace Project and the African Studies Association, Ruth is a committed scholar-activist who works to advance holistic peace and development—both within academia and in broader society. She holds research affiliations with the Harriet Tubman Institute and the Centre for Feminist Research. Her long-term project, Humanizing African Women Movements, brings together diverse Black artists to build a digital repository of research creations that (re)present African women’s resistance to the geographies of violence shaping their everyday lives.

Keywords: Black feminisms, African Indigenous epistemologies, decolonial methods, intersectionality, gender justice, peacebuilding, sub-Saharan Africa