Karen Shadd-Evelyn, author of "I'd Rather live in Buxton", has also published a variety of poems, short stories, biographies and articles.  She is a member of the Antiracism and Ethnocultural Equity Committee for the London Board of Education, the Congress of Black Women of Canada and the Canadian Artist's Network.

She specializes in public education seminars, workshops, forums on writing, multiculturalism and race relations.

Topics:

• Meet Mary Ann Shadd
• Meet Mary Ann Shadd, teacher, abolitionist, lawyer, suffragetter and Canada's first female newspaper editor, as portrayed by her great-great niece Karen Shadd-Evelyn.  Talk to her about events in Canadian Black History, the struggle for women's rights, life in Canada for early Black settlers fleeing the American system of slavery.  Hear the details of her exploits as an independent thinker before women were supposed to think outside the home!
• Beyond Freedom You've studied American slavery.  You've read about the Underground Railroad, You know about the American Civil Rights movement.  Now let's talk about what happened in Canada in all the years between.  Black History is more than just "slavery" to "freedom".  What happened to the people who escaped to Canada on the Underground Railroad?  Where are the descendants of thpse people now?  What have they accomplished?  What problems do they still face in our society today?
• Reflections Do the "Write" Thing