Eugenia Addy remembers what it was like as a young Black girl in Toronto’s The East Mall, trying to envision her future.
“I grew up in one of the communities that we do work in, and really not being able to see myself represented anywhere on TV [or] in my textbooks,” Addy said. “So to really believe that I could be a scientist or an engineer was something that I literally had to dream about, because I couldn’t see it in
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