About Our Founder

Hi, I’m Dominique!

I’m a voracious reader, unabashed chocoholic, ballet dancer, homebody who loves to travel, and mother to the world’s most talkative 6-year-old. I prefer tea over coffee, oceans over lakes, summer over winter, and, oh yeah… I was born to change the world.

I am the daughter of Afro-Caribbean parents who immigrated to Canada in the 1970s. Like most immigrants, my parents wanted to give me a “better life”. This meant that I was raised and educated in very suburban neighbourhoods that were almost exclusively white.

So it’s no surprise that when I went to graduate school, my research focused on critical perspectives in multicultural education. It was through this work that I developed my identity as a scholar-activist.

And I’ve carried this activist orientation into my post-academic career, which now spans more than 15 years, and crosses multiple sectors.

When you add in the fact that I’m a Highly Sensitive, gifted, Type-A, Gen X, INFJ-A Gemini (with a Virgo moon and Scorpio rising!), I basically have no choice but to try to make this world a better place.

Social Justice Warrior at Your Service!

Since I founded Fictive Kin in 2020, I’ve had many opportunities to reflect on why I am so skilled at advocating for equity and justice.

Three things stand out for me, all of which are related to my high sensitivity: 

  • I have a deep understanding of people: who they are, why they do what they do, etc.

  • I have very high standards for myself and the work I do.

  • I am compassionate, empathic, and have a strong intuitive sense of how to navigate complex, contradictory, or otherwise difficult equity issues.

It’s helped me realize that, for pretty much my entire life, I’ve been quietly turning these abilities into social justice superpowers.

And that’s what I want for you, too.