Angela Robertson
Activist - Editor - Executive Director
Angela Robertson is an activist working with black, women's and LGBTQ communities. She is widely respected and recognized for implementing life-transforming programs for women in Toronto. Angela is currently Executive Director of Queen West - Central Toronto Community Health Centre. She was previously Director of Equity & Community Development at Women's College Hospital and Executive Director of Sistering – A Woman's Place which is an organization that offers practical and emotional support to homeless, under-housed and low-income women in the city.
She was an editorial member of 'Our Lives', Canada's first Black Women's newspaper produced by The Black Women's Collective and the Women's Educational Press managing editor for five years up until 1992. In that role, she gave racialized and queer-identified women representation in the arts and politics through the publication of Canada's first oral history of African and Chinese Canadian women. She later co-edited 'Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought'.
Angela has been a board member of Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and Houselink Community Homes. She is currently a member of the Stephen Lewis Foundation boards.
"[Pride is about] celebrating LGBTQ presence, visibility, lives, hopes, joys. And it's also an act of political resistance that is visible against the continuing presence of homophobia, transphobia and its impact on our lives – in community, in family, in policy."
Morgan Holmes
Richard Fung
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