Submitted by joe on Sun, 2009-10-04 13:59
Natasha Henry’s first book, Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada, provides insight into the creation, development, and evolution of Emancipation Day commemorations.
She is the Director of Programs and an elementary teacher at a private school in Vaughan. Natasha is also a curriculum consultant and speaker, specializing in the development of learning materials that focus on the African experience. Natasha has developed the educational programs for two innovative exhibits on African Canadian history, ...and Still I Rise: A History of African Canadian Workers in Ontario 1900 to Present, and Enslaved Africans in Upper Canada.
In 2008 she developed web content and designed supplementary teaching materials for the Committee to Commemorate and Memorialize the Abolition of the Slave Trade (CMAST) for the organization’s education initiative on marking the 200th year anniversary of the end of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Natasha lives in Mississauga, Ontario with her family.
