At The Centre Podcast 1 - RAYNA

At The Centre

Rayna Sutherland (she/her) is a student at the University of Toronto Scarborough’s (UTSC) International Development Specialist Co-operative program and the Women’s and Gender Studies program. She is the current Internal Coordinator of the UTSC Women’s and Trans Centre where she collaborates with their student collective to provide the UTSC community with resources and events as it pertains to equity, feminism and health. As a passionate activist and scholar in the fields of international development and equity mobilizing, she believes in critical approaches grounded in the humility of intersectional feminist and anti-oppressive frameworks. That is, where none may assume the identity nor lived experience of another yet must be acutely aware of and challenge their own power and privilege and its manifestation. She is privileged to learn from the knowledge-sharing advocacy work of fellow activists in the areas of anti-racist, decolonial, disability justice, LGBTQ2S+ and gender equity as well as to be able to learn and unlearn on the land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit River. In the near future, she is excited to move to Cape Town, South Africa this September for a 10-month work and research placement as part of her co-op program. She will be interning at the organization, Natural Justice, an organization of lawyers “for Communities and the Environment [that] specialises in human rights and environmental law in Africa in pursuit of both social and environmental justice.” She hopes to conduct her research in partnership with Natural Justice, through participatory frameworks, to support or further the work they are doing.