Kimalee Phillip
Kimalee Phillip is an African cis-gendered woman, born and raised in Grenada and currently living in Toronto. She is a co-Director of the youth-led, Grenadian based collective, Groundation Grenada which focuses on the use of creative media to assess community needs and to build spaces for transformative change. She holds an MA in Legal Studies from Carleton University where she analyzed the coloniality of gender and sexuality and how that impacts rates of violence against women in Grenada. She is a counselor with the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre and serves as the Equity Officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, local 1281. She does organizing work with the Network for Pan- Afrikan Solidarity, the Black Women’s Caucus and the Network for the Elimination of Police Violence, in Toronto. She desires to consistently remain in the sun, enjoy a good, heavy occasional rainfall and to always be near a body of water. She enjoys writing, reading and embracing good music. She longs for a world where her people can live, love, laugh and transition freely.
