Handel Kashope Wright is the inaugural Senior Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence; Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity, and Education; and Professor of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor of the book series African and Diasporic Cultural Studies (University of Toronto Press) and Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (2022, University of Toronto Press); Associate Editor of the journal Critical Arts; and serves on the editorial boards of several cultural studies and education book series and journals. He has published extensively on Black and African cultural studies, qualitative research, cultural studies of education, and critical multiculturalism and its alternatives.