Sam Tecle is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at York University. His areas of focus include: Black and Diaspora Studies, Urban Studies, and Sociology of Education. His dissertation focuses on the experiences and perspectives relating to blackness and Black identification of East African Diasporas across the UK, Canada and the US. Recent publications include: Antiblackness in Canada which appears in Canadian Dimension magazine in July 2016.

Sam is also Co-Chair of York University’s Black Graduate Students Collective (BGSC) which works towards better experiences of Black graduate students at York University.