Melanie Knight is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her research interests are grounded in Black activism/organizing, Black collective economic initiatives, Black women business owners, and the subtext of race and gender in the discourse of enterprise. Her work has been published in the journal of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Gender, Work & Organization and the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire. Outside of her work in the academy, she collaborates with a number of community organizations that deliver programs and advocate for the health and well‐being of Black Canadians. She also supports organizations that promote Black history and heritage. In 2018 she was awarded the Viola Desmond faculty award.