Black Sparks
Dr Rita Shelton Deverell
Co-founder of Vision TV
Theatre and Media Artist
Dr Rita Shelton Deverell, EdD OISE/UT, dissertation on Arts Policy, is a theatre and media artist. She is a co-founder of Vision TV, former News Director at APTN where she mentored her Indigenous successor, and a Member of the Order of Canada. Her awards include two Geminis and the Black Women’s Civic Engagement Network Leadership Award. In 2019 Deverell’s book American Refugees: Turning to Canada for Freedom was published by University of Regina Press and her play Who You Callin Black Eh? garnered two Ontario Arts Council Theatre Recommender Grants. She is a Trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum and a member of the President’s Council on Truth and Reconciliation of Lakehead University.
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