Dr. Donna Hinds is a professor and the Program Coordinator for the Social Service Worker Program at Centennial College. She is a graduate of the Centennial College Social Service Worker Program. Dr. Hinds holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work from York University and a Doctor of Education Organizational Leadership with an emphasis in Higher Education Leadership from Grand Canyon University. She is the recipient of the 2017 George Wicken Memorial Teaching Excellence Award and the 2017 Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award.
She integrates a constructivist, experiential learning framework in which students can inquire, examine, and evaluate their knowledge of themselves and the world to construct personal interpretations and meanings while enhancing their learning capabilities. As a part of the Centennial College Global Citizenship Education Learning Experiences, she was part of a team on an experiential learning trip that took students to Atlanta, Georgia, USA, which provided a powerful learning experience.
Dr. Hinds's areas of research interest and teaching focus on social work and leadership, women and poverty, anti-oppressive practice, power, privilege, and oppression, race and racism, anti-Black racism, whiteness, critical race theory, mental health, social inequalities, and social policy. She is trained in narrative therapy and grief counselling.
Her commitment to social work is rooted in building a more just society by combating structural and social oppression and inequalities in all its apparatus. She believes learning is a lifelong process and that each new day presents new learning opportunities for personal and professional growth.