There’s Something in the Water Screening & Chat with Dr. Ingrid Waldron

George Brown

Highlights

Tue, 18 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm

3 hours

185 Queens Quay E

Free Tickets Available

Date & Location

Tue, 18 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm to 03:00 pm (GMT-05:00)

185 Queens Quay E

185 Queens Quay East, Toronto, Canada

About the event

There’s Something in the Water Screening & Chat with Dr. Ingrid Waldron

Join us for a screening of There’s Something in the Water, followed by a fireside chat with the author and advocate Dr. Ingrid Waldron.

About this Event

Join us for a powerful and thought-provoking screening of the award-winning documentary There’s Something in the Water, followed by an inspiring fireside chat with Dr. Ingrid Waldron, acclaimed author, advocate, and researcher.

Based on Dr. Waldron’s groundbreaking book, the film exposes the realities of environmental racism in Canada, shining a light on how environmental pollution disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous communities.

📅 Event Details
-Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
-Location: Limberlost Place, 185 Queens Quay E (10th Floor)

Agenda
-Noon to 1:30 PM Documentary Screening
-1:30 PM to 3 PM Fireside Chat with Dr. Waldron
-George Brown Professor Natalie Wood will moderate the chat. (Bio below)

🎁 Don’t miss your chance to take home a signed copy of Dr. Waldron’s powerful book — available exclusively at the event!

This event marks the first installment of our four-part Sustainability Learning Series, designed to amplify the voices of underrepresented individuals in sustainability and climate action, while creating pathways for George Brown students—particularly those from equity-deserving groups—to explore meaningful careers and contribute to climate solutions.

Upcoming sessions in the series will include a Career Pathways Panel, a Résumé and Interview Workshop, and a Mentorship Opportunity connecting students with leaders in the field.

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Dr. Ingrid Waldron is Professor and HOPE Chair in Peace and Health in the Global Peace and Social Justice Program in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University. She is a leading scholar, researcher and voice on environmental racism in Canada. She co-developed with former Liberal MP Lenore Zann a National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice (Bill C-226), the first federal private members' bill, which became Canada’s first environmental justice law/legislation on June 20, 2024, after being given royal assent.

Her scholarship and advocacy also focus on climate justice in Black and other racialized communities, mental illness and dementia in Black communities, and COVID-19 in Black and South Asian communities. Ingrid is the author of the book There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, which was turned into a 2020 Netflix documentary of the same name and was co-produced by Waldron, actor Elliot Page, and Ian Daniel.

She is the founder and Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health Project. Dr. Waldron’s book entitled From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter: The Impact of Racial Trauma on Mental Health in Black Communities, was published on November 25, 2024. It traces experiences of racial trauma in Black communities in Canada, the US and the UK from the colonial era to the present.

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Natalie Wood is a Professor at George Brown College, specializing in community development, social purpose enterprises, research, and the integration of the arts for social empowerment. With over two decades of experience working alongside marginalized communities, she brings deep expertise as both a community-based researcher and an arts consultant.

Her award-winning work explores innovative approaches to arts-based and participatory research within the field of social work, driving meaningful change through creative and inclusive methodologies.

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