Tesfa Peterson

Tesfa Peterson is currently a PhD student in the Humanities department at Concordia University, in Montreal Canada. Her current work, tentatively titled “Diaspora Reverberations and Community Groundings”, engages a praxis of grassroots community transformation through education, as espoused in the work or Caribbean intellectual Walter Rodney. She is currently working in her home communities of LaDigue, Chantimelle in Grenada and in Montreal to develop a diasporic project that incorporates oralities and heritage preservation as the basis of community education and transformation. Tesfa has worked for many years in community education, and activism both in Montreal and in Grenada and believes passionately in the importance of community collaboration as a critical feature of intellectual life.