Karen Mock

Karen Mock is an educator, psychologist and human rights consultant, specializing in equity and diversity issues and intercultural/interfaith dialogue. Having developed the first course in multicultural teacher education in Canada and served as senior policy advisor for the development and delivery of Ontario’s Inclusive Education Strategy, she is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Canadian authorities on multicultural/anti-racist education.

In 2001, she was appointed executive director and chief executive officer of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, a federal Crown corporation, after serving for 12 years as national director of the League for Human Rights (ADL) of B’nai Brith Canada. Prior to that, she taught at the university level for 14 years. Mock has been qualified by the Canadian courts and human rights tribunals as an expert in human rights, discrimination, anti-Semitism, hate crime and hate group activity.  She has received many awards and honours for her work, and was recently named a member of the Order of Canada.