Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware is Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts, McMaster University, exploring social justice frameworks and Black activist culture. He is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator, and educator, with works presented across Canada and internationally. Ware is a co-founder of the Black August Arts Residency Collective, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter–Canada, and curator of the show That’s So Gay, as well as And the Spaces Between Us Smiled at Nuit Blanche Toronto in 2024. He is the author of numerous papers, articles, and books and co-editor of the best-selling Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (2020).

As of November 2026