Dr. Kathy Moscou is Interim Dean, Faculty of Design, OCAD University. She has a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Masters Public Health and has contributed to learning outcomes of post-secondary students for more than 25 years.  She has been recognized as one of Canada’s 100 Accomplished Black women and received a 2024 Woman Who Inspires Change Award from the Jamaican Canadian Association.
 
Her background merges visual arts, health, and design for social justice. She fosters transformative education in which students and faculty apply a critical design lens to co-design equitable futures that advance access, justice, and sustainability. Dr. Moscou’s teaching, research and creative practice are guided by the African worldview Ubuntu, “I am because we are” and the collective responsibility to positively contribute to humanity.  She was instrumental in establishing the first Black Studies Design & Art (minor) at an Art and Design University in Canada at OCAD University.
 
Dr. Moscou is a strong advocate for youth and believes that it is critical for their voice to be represented when designing programs and policy that will affect them and future generations.  As a member of the Solid Black Collective, she mentors Black youth and led the Vaccin8 for the Culture campaign with youth from the Jamaican Canadian Association. She conducted community co-designed research on improving safe and affordable housing for women that have experienced homelessness in the Niagara region. Recent published research looks at racism and access to medicines.  Dr. Moscou is the author of more that 20 journal articles and books.
 
Dr. Moscou’s creative practice is mixed media visual storytelling that celebrates Black culture and the Black family. Her art has been exhibited in over 30 curated exhibits and she has curated several exhibits. Recent interactive installations have engaged the public to contribute to the hidden Black history of St John’s Ward – Toronto, Ontario and envision a just and equitable future by “Planting seeds of Change”. Her work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon); the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto); the M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery (Seattle), the Bellevue Art Museum (Bellevue, WA), Wheat City Nuit Blanche (Manitoba), Toronto Nuit Blanche, Mann Gallery (St Catharines) and La Yareta Gallery (Chile).