Since 2006, the Mission Breakfast Fundraiser has welcomed keynote speakers from a variety of backgrounds.

Join us in the Kenneth C. Rowe Hall at Pier 21 for breakfast, special speakers, and to hear from our keynote speaker, Dr. El Jones. Purchase your tickets here or call us at (902) 423-4605 ext. 6. The Mission Breakfast is our annual fundraiser to support our work in the community.

Author, poet, journalist, educator, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more, an outspoken activist, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. 

A respected poet, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021.

What defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia.

Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, Dr. Jones has taught at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Community College, and Saint Mary’s University.

In 2017-19, she was appointed to the 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, an illustrious position in feminist studies.

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