Human Rights Project

As a mother of three teenagers, she is always trying to create balance and to make a difference. Filita’s personal mantra is: Change starts with me.

Empowering individuals to recognize their inherent worth is my ultimate life purpose. Through various entrepreneurial endeavors, I have passionately pursued this end by writing books, creating documentaries, and establishing a mindfulness and meditation-centered business. I hold an honors bachelor's degree in applied psychology from The University of Guelph Humber.
Presently, I am a Youth Services Officer at the Roy McMurtry Youth Center. Prior to this role, I gained valuable experience while working at an open custody/detention facility and as a Loss Prevention Manager.
I’m explicitly aware of the disenfranchisement experienced by individuals of African descent, and how systemic racism is entrenched within institutional structures and influenced by human bias, personal or collective interests, and capitalism. Extensive quantitative studies have unequivocally revealed the pervasive prejudice in policing and the judicial system. However, I recognized long ago that information alone does not engender lasting change. Genuine transformation is often born from the fusion of factual knowledge and deep personal resonance.
As a new member of this committee, my hope is that I can offer perspective to the collective dialogue, and churn the souls of those who are incentivized to maintain the present state of the judicial system.

A strong believer in giving back to the community, Andria has been appointed Humber College’s Program Advisory Committee (PAC) member and mentors entrepreneurs.
She is frequently asked to judge entrepreneur competitions and has worked with Canadian SME, SheaMoisture & Canadian Mortgage Awards.

As a consultant, Andria has facilitated numerous workshops and presentations and has supported several of non-profits and businesses in connecting with the community and meaningful outreach. She is an Activator with SheEO/Coralus and a co-founder of the Banker Ladies Council.

Two years in a row, Canadian SME named her one of the Most Inspiring Women Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders, and in 2022 she was the winner of the Rotman Family Entrepreneur of the Year.

It is my understanding that my professional purpose must be to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to be successful regardless of barriers in their way, and I must as a professional remove these barriers. A 2020 graduate from Sheridan College from the Honours of Bachelor of Business Administration-Human Resources program. I wrote AODA policies, practices and procedures for a non-profit organization and made sure they were compliant and were in the situation where they could better train their employees to work alongside and provide support to clients with disabilities.

I have since started speaking and consulting other companies on how to be more Accessible and Inclusive from a Human approach and how to empower and recruit more diverse individuals in an authentic manner at my company at Accessible Creates.

Jody Campbell is a native to Peel and has been teaching with the Peel District School Board for the past 10 years. She received a BA from York University with a major in English and a minor in Caribbean Studies. Jody has developed a Girl’s Group for Black and racialized girls and a Black Students Alliance at her school.  She has a strong sense of devotion to overturning, disrupting, and dismantling the disproportionality and disparities in outcomes to Black and racialized student learning and well-being.

Arjan Dhoot is a senior medical student at the University of Toronto. He has resided in both Brampton and Mississauga, allowing him to understand the unique needs of both cities enforced by the Peel Regional Police Service. He is a co-founder of the 3D-PPE GTHA initiative and led the production of over 25,000 3D printed face shields for frontline workers across during the pandemic. He has also authored numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts, won many research awards, and has been invited to speak about his research at local, national, and international meetings. He is excited to contribute his expertise in research, lived experiences as a citizen of Peel region, and his experiences in healthcare to the Anti-Racism Advisory Committee.

Gord Gallimore is a math teacher in the Peel District School Board for the past five years and for three years in Nova Scotia's Strait Regional School Board. His current role is with the OSSTF (Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation) Peel District Union as a Racism Reporting Officer, with the intention of disrupting and dismantling Anti-Black racism in the union and the board.

Gord completed his undergraduate degree at Acadia University, Bachelor of Education at StFX and recently completed his Masters of Education at StFX. He is also a part of a few committees that disrupt and dismantle anti-black racism such as DABRAC (Disrupting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee), BCCA (Black Canadian Coaches Association), ADYE (Ashton Dickson Youth Empowerment), YAIJ (Youth Alliance for Intersectional Justice) and the DPCDSB BCAC (Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board Black Community Action Committee).

A strong advocate of youth community involvement and health advocacy, Arvind is the Manager of Health Programs and Prevention at Moyo Health and Community Services and sits as a Director for several community agencies in the Peel region. Furthermore, Arvind serves as the Policy and Community Engagement Advisor for the Anti-Black Racism and Systemic Discrimination Collective of Peel. In addition to being an active community advocate, Arvind is involved in several community-based research initiatives with Trillium Health Partners and the Region of Peel, where he combines his research interests in public policy and multiculturalism.

Arvind is pursuing a Master of Public Administration in Public Policy at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. He possesses a Bachelor of Music in Political Science and Classical Music from McGill University.