Catherine Frazee
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Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission
Catherine Frazee | |
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 Catherine Frazee | |
| Known for | Disability Rights Activist, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission |
| Awards | Order of Canada |
Catherine Frazee OC is a Canadian educator, activist, researcher, poet and writer. She is currently professor emerita in the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).[1] Prior to her retirement from Ryerson in 2010, she served for a decade as professor of distinction and as co-director of the Ryerson/RBC Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education. She is known for her role as Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1992. Her father was prominent Canadian banker Rowland Cardwell Frazee.
Frazee is a member of DAWN (DisAbled Women's Network Canada)'s Equality Rights Committee[2] and serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Abilities Foundation[3] and the Canadian Association for Community Living, chairing that organization's Task Force on Values and Ethics.[4]
From 1989 to 1992, Frazee was the Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.[5]