Gift Tshuma (he/him)
Equity, diversity and inclusion officer
Gift Tshuma is a disability rights activist and a music artist, with a background in Sociology and a minor in Law and Society from Concordia University.
He also holds a position at March of Dimes Canada as an Assistive Technologist in accessibility and universal design. Over the past decade, as a co-founding member of Accessibilize Montreal, he has been heavily involved in advocacy for disability rights and accessibility issues in Montreal. In 2019 Gift created Blurring the Boundaries with Charles Matthews and David Bobier as an outlet for their emerging music technology development and collaborative practice. In response to events in 2020, he shifted his attention to live podcasting, co-hosting the Unashamed Truth and Crip Talk Corner.