Adrienne Shadd is a researcher, writer, curator and editor living in Toronto. She is co-author of "We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History", co-editor of "Talking About Identity: Encounters in Culture, Language and Identity" with Carl James and recently has curated exhibitions entitled ."..and still I rise" in Hamilton, Ontario, on the experience of African-Canadian workers in the twentieth century.