{"id":6556,"date":"2026-02-06T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=6556"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:44:22","slug":"malinda-smith","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/people\/malinda-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Malinda  Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Malinda S. Smith is an Associate Vice President (Research-EDI) and a full professor of political science at the University of Calgary. She serves as Co-Chair of the President&#8217;s Task Force on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility, Chair of the Dimensions EDI Team, and Lead of the One Child Every Child Equitable Pathways Accelerator and Equitable Pathways Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Smith holds a PhD in political science from the University of Alberta, an MA, MDA, and a BA magna cum laude in political science and criminal justice from Western Michigan University. She is the coauthor of The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities (2017), and editor or co-editor of seven books including the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (2022) and Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nationally, Dr. Smith serves on SSHRC Council and Executive, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) External EDI Advisory Board, Statistics Canada\u2019s Immigration and Ethnocultural Statistics Advisory Committee. She is a Senior Fellow, Massey College, and serves as vice chair of the Steering Committee of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Smith is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Lifetime Achievement Award, from the Calgary Black Chamber (2023), a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Simon Fraser University (2021), 100 Accomplished Black Women Honouree (2020), a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2018), and an ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award (2018-19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":6558,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Malinda ","cu_people_last_name":"Smith ","cu_people_initials":"MS","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-6556","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Vice-President Research (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion), University of Calgary","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6665,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6556\/revisions\/6665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=6556"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=6556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}