Meet the Anti-Racism
Data Committee

On September 23, 2022, the Province announced the 11 members, including the chair, of the Anti-Racism Data Committee.

Committee Members

June Francis LLB, PhD

Committee chair, Co-founder, Co-Laboratorio (CoLab Advantage Ltd.) and Director of the Institute for Black and African Diaspora Research and Engagement, Cofounder of the Black Caucus at SFU and a Professor in the Beedie School of Business at SFU


Francis is an advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion for racialized groups. She is chair of the Hogan’s Alley Society, whose mission is to advance the social, political, economic and cultural well-being of people of African descent through the delivery of housing, built spaces and programming. She is also director of SFU’s Institute for the Black and African Diaspora Research and Engagement, whose mandate is to strengthen the links between scholarly research, policy and practice related to multicultural and diaspora communities and their role in building innovative, sustainable and inclusive initiatives. Her research focuses on the intersection between racism and the academy and markets and marketing, diversity, inter-culturality, leadership and participatory engagement approaches and community impact, Covid-19 with vulnerable and excluded groups as well as the advancement of non-traditional intellectual property law, including traditional knowledge related to community well-being and cultural and human rights.

Shirley Chau

Associate professor, school of social work, UBC Okanagan


Donald Corrigal

Cultural wellness manager, Métis Nation BC


At Métis Nation BC, Corrigal is responsible for liaising with the health-care industry on a variety of issues, including the implementation of the In Plain Sight report, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls report, and the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action report. He has worked in environmental public health since 1976 and worked with various committees in the B.C. Interior during the COVID-19 pandemic on issues of access and discriminatory and racist incidents at COVID clinics.

Marion Erickson

Research manager, Health Arts Research Centre


Erickson is a Dakelh woman from the community of Nak’azdli and is a member of the Lhts’umusyoo (Beaver) Clan. Erickson also is a master of education candidate at Thompson Rivers University and earned a bachelor of public administration and community development from the University of Northern B.C. Erickson is currently serving on the B.C. Health Regulators Indigenous Student Advisory Group and has served on the trust development committee for the Nak’azdli Band and the City of Prince George Student Needs Committee.

Daljit Gill-Badesha


With more than 25 years of senior leadership in the non-profit and public sectors, Gill-Badesha brings expertise in executive management, research, knowledge mobilization, and policy development for children and youth, seniors, immigrant and refugee settlement, and accessibility and inclusion portfolios. She has developed award-winning, large-scale initiatives and strategies for long-term community planning and led changes in policies to make data collection and reporting more accessible within local government and add accountability measures on data related to racism and hate.

Jessica (t’łisala) Guss


Ellen Kim

Equity and inclusion consultant


Originally from Korea, Kim has worked with governments, businesses and not-for-profit organizations with a focus on anti-racism. She co-leads a grassroots collective of Asian women who collect, analyze, track and share community-sourced data on anti-Asian racism and its impacts. Prior to this, Kim spent 10 years working in community development and frontline social service delivery with global communities experiencing injustice.

Zareen Naqvi

Director, Institutional Research and Planning, Simon Fraser University


Naqvi completed her PhD in economics at Boston University and worked as an academic and international development professional at the World Bank. She leads the equity, diversity and inclusion data working group at SFU and co-chairs the data governance council and other related projects. She is passionate about improving data access to ensure vulnerable groups are well represented in public services and higher education.

Smith Oduro-Marfo

Lead author and researcher, Black in B.C. report


Oduro-Marfo holds a PhD in political science from the University of Victoria. His area of academic interest since 2016 has been in issues of privacy, data protection, surveillance and identification systems. He is the lead author and researcher for the Black in B.C. report funded by the B.C. government and released in February 2022. He has been on the advisory committee for Ending Violence Association of B.C.’s anti-racism and hate response program and is a member of the Greater Victoria Police Diversity Advisory Committee.

Jacqueline Quinless


Sukhi Sandhu

Co-founder, Wake Up Surrey; master’s student, diversity, equity and inclusion, Tufts University


Sandhu is a community activist and for the past 25 years has been a strong advocate for Anti-Racism. He is the founder of the Equity Project, currently retained by Sport Canada as an external consultant to lead a Racial Equity and Anti-Racism Environmental Scan, which will include highlighting current gaps, researching best practices and providing recommendation for implementation.

Sandhu has just completed his Masters in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Tufts University in Boston, with his graduate research focus on Advancing Racial Equality within Match Officiating in English Football. He is also a founding member of Wake Up Surrey, a grassroots community organization formed in 2018 in response to increasing gang violence and targeted shootings involving South Asian youth. His group highlighted the need for a racial equity lens to this multi-faceted social problem and participated in more than 150 meetings with all levels of government, policing authorities, community stakeholders, educators, mental health experts and victim families.

In 1997, Sandhu also chaired the Intercultural Inclusivity Task Force for the City of Surrey whose report was the recipient of the National Race Relations Award and a template for many Parks and Recreation Departments on effectively outreaching and engaging with diverse ethnic communities.

Sandhu has many years of experience in global sports management including working at the FIFA World Cup, Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games.