Founder and Principal Consultant, Kojo Institute | DEI Expert
Kike Ojo-Thompson is the founder and principal consultant of the Kojo Institute. An award-winning expert on equity, inclusion and diversity, Kike specializes in developing, facilitating and implementing innovative solutions for creating equity at an institutional level. A dynamic speaker and educator who artfully balances tact and honesty, Kike has over 20 years of experience leading engaging and effective workshops, lectures, mediation, and training for a broad range of organizations eager to create equitable outcomes for their staff and clients.
In addition to her equity work with Kojo Institute, Kike is a member of the Ontario Human Rights Community Advisory Committee, was formerly the senior facilitator for the province’s carding review team, and was formerly project lead for One Vision One Voice, a first-of-its-kind initiative tasked with addressing anti-Black racism in the child welfare system.
TOPICS
- The Origins and Manifestations of Anti-Black Racism
- The Legacies: Slavery, the Theft and Conquest of the Americas, Colonialism, Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Religious Universalism
- Whiteness, White Supremacy, and the Origins of Race
- Beyond Diversity Quotas: Frameworks for Equity as a Goal and an Outcome
- Building Equity-Informed, Anti-Racist, and Anti-Oppressive Organizations
- …plus a broad range of topics related to equity, anti-racism, anti-Black racism, anti-oppression, organizational change, and social justice.
