About Inner Source
How we help
At Inner Source we will:
- Provide a safe (as possible) space for individuals or groups to share their experience.
- Identify significant issues within the workplace that impede individuals.
- Offer personalized operational solutions to address identified issues.
- Provide individuals or groups with tools and strategies to address discriminatory work place conditions.
- Help to identify equitable environmental solutions.
- Offer executives tools to address and prevent issues of racism and discrimination.
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How We help
At Inner Source we will:
- Provide a space as safe as possible for individuals or groups to share their experience.
- Identify significant issues within the workplace that impede individuals.
- Offer personalized operational solutions to address identified issues.
- Provide individuals or groups with tools and strategies to address discriminatory work place conditions.
- Help to identify equitable environmental solutions.
- Offer executives tools to address and prevent issues of racism and discrimination.
Our Team of Experts
Dr. Delores V. Mullings
I have provided professional development and education to a wide variety of non-profit, private organizations, private businesses and academic institutions. My multiple intersectional lived experiences and education informs my work across all sectors thus, giving me a well rounded and balanced experience to support organizational transformation and reparation.
I am an award-winning, engaging and challenging professor in the School of Social Work. My work with students has been recognized across Memorial as well as provincially and nationally with the YWCA Women of Distinction Award (Education and Mentorship), 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women Honoree, President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching (Faculty), and an appointment as Chair in Teaching and Learning in a competitive process in the School of Social Work.
Current interdisciplinary scholarship explores decolonizing post-secondary education, mental health and wellness, LGBTQ+ concerns, the Black Church, aging, migration, community engagement, mothering, human rights, employment equity, and parenting.
Dr. Jennifer Clarke
Social worker, researcher and consultantDr. Jennifer Clarke is a social worker, researcher, consultant, and clinical anti-racism trainer whose practice is centred in Africentric, trauma-informed, and anti-Black racism perspectives. Her practice, teaching and research are grounded in anti-oppression, anti-racism, and anti-Black racism perspectives through which she explores and deconstructs the colonial, racial, and gender power relations in society. She is the recipient of several research grants and awards, and a Co-editor of Today’s Youth and Mental Health: Hope, Power and Resilience (2018). She also has content expertise on Black families and child welfare, gun violence loss and trauma, newcomer youth, and social work education and practice.
Dr. Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D
Social Justice | Diversity, Equity and InclusionDr. Amoaba Gooden (she/her) Ph.D., has over 30 years of experiences working in the areas of social justice and diversity, equity and inclusion. Dr. Gooden has conducted equity, diversity and inclusion work with colleges and universities, k-12 schools and organizations across North America. She provides guidance related to strategic planning, capacity building, climate assessment, and inclusive hiring. Her areas of research focus include (1) Black Canadian Organizing, Citizenship, Transnationalism, and Identity; (2) Anti-Racism, Decolonizing and Feminist Frameworks in Higher Education, and (3) Race, Gender, Sexuality and Class. Her approach and lens is post-disciplinary and informed by anti-oppression frameworks situated at the intersections of decolonial, anti-racist, feminist, transnational, and migration theorizing.
Dr. Olasumbo Adelakun
Independent consultant, educator and authorDr. Olasumbo Adelakun is a passionate and enthusiastic independent consultant, educator and author who strives to understand issues that impact disadvantaged, underrepresented, equity-deserving/seeking groups, and the various realities that need to be addressed in order to improve their lives, mental health and wellbeing.
Having lived on three continents, her penchant for improving the life experiences of others is reflected in her work which is centered around reducing the high incidence of infant and maternal mortality within Black communities. She is committed to studying these difficult human conditions and providing a voice and hope for change.
Dr. Adelakun currently serves as Adjunct Professor at St. Bonaventure University, teaching Global Leadership. She thrives on creating equitable and inclusive environments that accommodate the needs of curious minds, promotes a high level of critical thinking and provides opportunities for individuals to contribute, learn and succeed.
Dr. Sobia Shaheen Shaikh
Social worker, community activist and researcherDr. Sobia Shaheen Shaikh is a social worker, community activist and researcher who has worked to redress gendered violence in many forms, from sexualized and racialized violence in intimate relationships, to racisms and Islamophobia, to environmental degradation. As a community-engaged scholar, her research centres supporting women’s and other social justice-based organizations in their social justice work.
Her academic projects are varied, including projects which explore: subjectivity of women and girls who have experienced violence in their homes (“Power, transformation and subjectivity in the motherwork of ‘abused’ immigrant women”), northern and rural communities (“Resettlement and Relocation Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador”), individualized education plans in K-12 schools, and anti-racist and social justice praxis in non-profit organizations (“Addressing Islamophobia in Newfoundland and Labrador”; “Antiracism in Canadian student organizations: 1981 to 1995”; “Shifting Priorities – Effects of government and private funding on the social justice work of women’s non-profit organizations”; and “Negotiating Activism: Racialized Women Navigating Relations of Ruling”.