Born in 1992 in Montreal to Haitian parents, Kharoll-Ann Souffrant is a social worker and doctoral candidate in social work at the University of Ottawa. She has several years of experience in intervention in the community and the health and social services networks in Quebec. She is finishing writing a thesis on the Quebec version of the #MeToo movement from the perspective of women, survivors and activists from black communities. She is a new member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Atlantis - Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice .

Since 2015, she has given to more than a hundred conferences, in French and English, in Quebec, Canada, and internationally, to very diverse audiences.

Kharoll-Ann Souffrant is the author of the literary essay, Le privilège de dénoncer - Justice pour toutes les victimes de violences sexuelles (In French only) published by Éditions du remue-ménage in Quebec and Europe (Author of the Year - Gala Dynastie 2024; Longlisted - Jury's Selection of the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal 2023). She co-edited, with the poet, translator and professor Chloé Savoie-Bernard, the issue Futurités noires for Possibles.

In 2020, she completed a fellowship at the United Nations for People of African descent as part of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024).

 

Her writings have appeared in The Globe and Mail , Le Délit , Policy Options , La Gazette des femmes , La Presse, La Conversation Canada , Le Devoir , Possibles and Liberté . She writes a media column for Noovo Info and has a  feminist column for the social and political magazine À Bâbord!

 

Some examples of recent columns for Noovo Info :

• • Crise à l'École Bedford : Partir à la chasse aux immigrants

  • Au-delà de la guerre aux écrans

  • Aya Nakamura et les Jeux olympiques de la discorde

  • Aimer Beyoncé ou "la musique de Blancs"

  • À propos des deuxièmes chances

  • Réflexions sur la maternité d'une trentenaire sans enfant

  • Croire en sa bonne étoile

  • À propos de ces bris de verre que l'on célèbre

  • Mandela - Mulroney: Ubuntu ou requiem pour les apatrides

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Kharoll-Ann Souffrant is working on several other writing projects, including a new book to be published by éditions du remue-ménage on the themes of (im)migration, identity and belonging about Quebec and Haiti. This project is funded by the Canada Arts Council (CAC) and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ).