Handel Kashope Wright has been Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies of Education and Senior Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence and is the inaugural and ongoing Director of the Centre for Culture, and Professor of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is also Senior Research Associate, Department of Communications Studies, University of Johannesburg and a member of the Inter-Institutional Steering Committee of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education. He is co-editor of the book series African and Diasporic Cultural Studies (University of Toronto Press) and Associate Editor of the journal Critical Arts and serves on the editorial board of several cultural studies and education journals (e.g. Cultural Studies, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Diaspora, Indigenous & Minority Education, and Postcolonial Studies in Education) and book series, including Radical Cultural Studies (Rowan & Littlefield), Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics (Rowan & Littlefield), and Cultural Pluralism, Democracy and Education (Sense Publications). Prof. Wright has published extensively on continental and diasporic African cultural studies, cultural studies of education, anti-racism, multiculturalism and qualitative research.