Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Monday, October 6th, 2025 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm — 9:00 pm |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall, Atrium |
| Audience: | Alumni, Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty, Media, Professionals, Prospective Students, Staff |
The First Annual Mary Ann Shadd Cary Lecture:
From The Provincial Freeman to ByBlacks.com: Ending Extractive Journalism
Featuring Camille Dundas
Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ByBlacks.Com
With remarks from Adrienne Shadd, consultant, curator, author and descendant of Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Presented by the Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication and the Mary Ann Shadd Cary Centre for Journalism and Belonging. Supported by generous individual donors and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.
Register Now for the 2025 Mary Ann Shadd Cary Lecture
Camille Dundas is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning online magazine ByBlacks.com, Canada’s leading Black online magazine. Camille’s professional background is in television news. She graduated from the journalism program at Carleton University and spent a decade as a producer in some of Canada’s largest newsrooms, including CTV and CBC. Camille has led her ByBlacks team to win four national ethnic media awards and has been acknowledged by former Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, for her advocacy work. Camille was also named among the 100 Top Black Canadian Accomplished Women in 2022.
Adrienne Shadd, descendant of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, is a consultant, curator, and author who has conducted research for plaques, films, and exhibits. Most recently she was part of the Dalhousie University team that developed a comprehensive research and education project entitled ‘A Black People’s History of Canada.’ She is the author, co-author and editor of numerous books and articles, including The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton. Her book The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! with Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards in 2022. Adrienne has been recognized with the William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations and the J.C. Holland Award for Arts Achievement for her research and writing. She is currently working on a book on Toronto settler and freedom seeker, Deborah Brown.
About the Shadd Cary Lecture Series
Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication is proud to launch its first-ever lecture series named for a woman, honouring the legacy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first Black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada. The Annual Mary Ann Shadd Cary Lecture Series: Voices of Change in Canadian Journalism will feature leading women and non-binary journalists from historically under- and mis-represented communities, who will share their stories and expertise.
Learn more about the Mary Ann Shadd Cary Lecture Series and how you can support it.