

This event is brought to you by the Windsor Law Centre for Cities and Making It Awkward: Challenging Anti-Black Racism. Learn more about Ms Pitter’s previous work at.

Her forthcoming books, Black Public Joy and Where We Live, will be published by McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada. She is the co-editor of Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity. Jay has been named the John Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning by the University of Toronto. She also shapes urgent city-building conversations through media and academic platforms. Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker and author whose practice mitigates growing divides in cities across North America. In acknowledging that anti-Blackness occurs across all public spaces, the goal for the workshop is the creation of a high-level collective terms of reference for moving forward with dismantling anti-Black racism in the public realm, and a guide for future work in planning safe, equitable and joyful spaces for everyone. The workshop is open to Windsor-based Black community builders and their allies/accomplices interested in learning equity-based placemaking principles and strategies for engaging with the municipality. This virtual workshop is a follow-up to Jay Pitter’s 22 September public keynote “The City’s Broken Promise”.
