Authors & Headliners

Desmond Cole is the author of the number one bestseller THE SKIN WE’RE IN: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. He is an award-winning journalist, radio host, and activist whose writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, Toronto Life, The Walrus, NOW Magazine, Ethnic Aisle, Torontoist, BuzzFeed, and the Ottawa Citizen. Desmond Cole is based in Toronto.