Education
2022: Juris Doctor - University of Windsor
2019: Masters of Social Work - Toronto Metropolitan University
2018: Bachelor of Social Work - Toronto Metropolitan University
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Legal Process - Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (2022-2023)
Professional Experience
Executive Lead - The Collective of Child Welfare Survivors, The Black Legal Action Centre (2020 - Present)
Research Assistant - Faculty of Law, Windsor (2021)
Lead Researcher - Project Based External Placement, The Black Legal Action Centre (2021)
Afrofest Coordinator - University of Windsor Students' Alliance (2019-2020)
Caseworker - Community Legal Aid, University of Windsor (2019)
Caseworker - Community Legal Aid, University of Windsor (2019)
Co-Creator & Project Lead - The Black Liberation Collective - Toronto Metropolitan University (2016 - 2019)
Project Coordinator - Office of the Ontario Child Advocate (2017 - 2018)
Awards
- Harley D. Hallett Graduate Scholarship, Osgoode Hall Law (2022)
- Anti-Black Racism Advocacy Award, Windsor Law (2021)
- John Mountain Law Scholarship, Windsor Law (2021)
- Anti-Black Racism Student Leadership Grant, University of Windsor (2021)
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Student Award, Windsor Law (2020)
Publications
- Lamers, J. (forthcoming 2023). Like Father Like Son, in Idil Abdillahi et al., (Eds), Mad Matters (2nd).
- Ewa-Elechi, E. & Lamers, J. (forthcoming 2023). The occlusive/carceral tactics of white womanhood within and outside of social work, Demeter Press.
- Lamers, J. (2022). From topic and evidence to architect: The development of Black diasporic phenomenology and the resistive strategies of Black child welfare survivors, in Jualla van Oudenhoven R., Walcott-Parris, D., & Woodman, S. (eds), The Myth of Child Protection: An Equity Guide (Gompel & Svacina).
- Lamers, J. (12 November 2018). Simcoe County school board’s hollow promise on equity/inclusion unacceptable, Simcoe.com.
- Lamers, J. (13 June 2018). Fat activism’s been around…ya’ll just need to get into it, Queer Media Magazine
Presentation
- "Nothing But a Deathtrap: Ontario’s Family Policing System, Gender as Inherently Antiblack, and the Lives/Death of Black Queer and Trans Child Welfare Survivors" (Paper Presentation at Graduate Law Student Association Conference, Osgoode Hall Law, August 2022)
- "In Defense of Caleb, Regis, and Anthony: Blackpolis and Black People “Falling” in Mental Health Distress" (Paper Presentation at Mental Health Law Conference Confronting Sanism: From Legal Education to Legal Action, April 2022)
- "Abolition and Child Welfare" (Panelist at Collective of Child Welfare Survivors, the Black Legal Action Centre March 2022)
- "2SLGBTQ+ Student Activism in Legal Education" (Panelist at OUTLaw National June 2021)
- "A Discussion with Student-Activists" (Panelist at Making it Awkward, University of Windsor March 2021)
- "Slut Nations: The Anatomy of Protest" (Panelist at Onsite Gallery, OCAD, February 2021)
- "When We Say It & Talking AntiBlack Racism" (Panelist at Windsor Art Council, February 2021)
- "The Black University Experience" (Keynote/Facilitator at CAOS Windsor, December 2020).
- "Black Seeds Grow Here: How to Create Anti-Racist Communities" (Panelist at New Democratic Party -Ontario, October 2020
- "All Out September 30" (Panelist at York Federation of Students, September 2020)
- "No Cops on Campus" (Panelist at CSSDP- Toronto Metropolitan University, September 2020)
- "Undoing/Rethinking Social Work" (Panelist at Social Work Student Union, Toronto Metropolitan University, September 2020)
- "Child Protection & AntiBlack Racism" (Keynote at the Black Legal Action Centre, August 2020)
- "From Turtle Island to South Africa: Black-Palestinian Solidarity" (Panelist at Palestine Solidarity Collective ~ York University, July 2020)
- "Organizing While Black On & Off Campus" (Panelist at Afrofest University of Windsor Students' Alliance, February 2020)
- "From Topic & Evidence to Architect: The Resistive Strategies of Black Child Welfare Survivors" (Paper at Congress 2019: Black Canadian Studies Association Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2019)
- "From #BlackOnCampus to #theRyersonWay: Black Student Organizing, Mobilizing, and Action as Complaint" (Keynote at Community Movements Conference, Trent University, February 2019)
- "The Force That’s With Us: Improving Policing? (Panelist at Social Justice Week: Toronto Metropolitan University, November 2018)
- "Anti-Black Racism Institute" (Facilitator at White Privilege Conference, Toronto Metropolitan University, May 2018)
- "Black Student Mobilizing" (Panelist at Black Canadian Studies Association Conference, Brandon, MB, May 2017)