Kike Ojo is a Toronto-based Educator, a Thought Leader and Institutional Change Agent. As the principal consultant for KOJO KONCEPTS, she specializes in supporting organizations around the world, to achieve equitable outcomes for their staff and clients, using principles of anti-oppression, anti-racism, human rights and cultural safety. She is the daughter of a Trinidadian mother and a Nigerian father, Kike experienced “internal racism” which is sometimes described as a by-product of colonialism. Anti-African sentiments within the Caribbean community was a constant presence including suggestions that the sometimes lighter colour Blacks from the islands was preferable to any shade of black from Africa. This began her thinking about race as a social construction and how ‘whiteness’ as dominant and ideal had been developed through colonialism and slavery, while she sought to understand why people make such arbitrary distinctions.