Kayla Webber

Kayla Webber is an Assistant Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at Toronto Metropolitan University, with additional affiliations as a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, Fellow at the School of Cities (University of Toronto), Associate Fellow at York University's Harriet Tubman Institute, and Emerging Housing Scholar with the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative.

Her research radically centers Black, Afro-Indigenous, and Indigenous communities through:

• Community-based participatory research and youth-led action methodologies
• Housing justice, displacement resistance, and land-based learning
• Decolonial wellness frameworks and healing justice
• Transnational youth advocacy and anti-racism policy

Her publications explore Black/Indigenous feminist pedagogy, nonprofit resilience, and grassroots mobilization, often using narrative and digital storytelling methods. Recent works engage themes of solidarity, survivance, and community-defined futures.

Awards and honors include:

• 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women (2024)
• Canadian Japanese Mennonite Human Rights Award (2023)
• Multiple Ontario Graduate Scholarships (2021-2023)
• Philanthropist Writing Fellowship (2023)

She actively contributes to community initiatives as Vice-Chair of For Youth Initiative and advisor to the Black & Indigenous Lives Project. Her teaching includes graduate courses on child and youth care theory and independent research supervision.