Community advocate and friend of the College, Winston LaRose, was duly recognized by the University with an honorary degree at Innis’s June 23 Convocation ceremony.
Dr. LaRose was joined on stage by alumnus and fellow activist Kofi Hope (HBA ’06 Innis), who also moderated an Innis-hosted screening of the documentary Mr. Jane and Finch in August 2020 that chronicles Winston LaRose’s important work in the eponymous Toronto neighbourhood.
Click here to watch Dr. LaRose’s address to Innis’s Class of 2022 on YouTube.
"The people of Jane & Finch to whom I am dedicating this magnificent honour … are my family. And it is only because of them that I have been able to get to this particular podium."