About SLEL’s Founder

Tomee Sojourner-Campbell, M.A.

Founder, Consultant, Coach, Advisor & Senior Labour Educator

Sojourner Labour Education Lab

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Tomee’s Labour Education Bio:

Tomee Sojourner-Campbell, M.A., is a globally recognized thought leader with over 28 years of experience in organizational development, anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-oppression, people and culture, learning, and community development. Tomee draws on her past experiences as a union member, an education officer for one of the largest public sector unions in Canada, and a lead advisor to senior union leaders in her work at the Sojourner Labour Education Lab.

Tomee is a trusted advisor, consultant, labour educator and coach. Her labour movement clients include the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local2, Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO), the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), and Goldblatt Partners LLP.

Tomee designs, develops, and implements labour education curriculum, courses, educational programs, action plans, communication content, tools and digital resources for union leadership, staff and members. She also provides individual and small group coaching for union stewards, elected leaders, executive committee members, board of directors, aspiring union leaders, and labour movement leaders.

As part of Tomee’s services, she uses an interdisciplinary approach. This approach encompasses labour relations, conflict resolution, occupational health and safety, communication strategies, equity principles, trauma awareness, and interpersonal relationship development. She also uses social justice and workers’ rights research, case law, socio-legal theories, workplace policies, and work-related legislation in her work.

Tomee provides strategic guidance to unions, including Board of Directors, Executive Committees, senior staff, grievance officers, staff representatives, labour relations officers, human rights, communications, campaign officers, organizers, finance staff, support staff, supervisors, managers, excluded staff, building services and facilities, access control staff, as well as people and culture.

Tomee has a B.A. (Hons) (Carleton University) and an M.A. in Social Justice and Equity Studies (Brock University). She completed the coursework for an LLM (Research) at Osgoode Law School, York University.

Tomee is also a learning and development expert, researcher, consultant, labour educator, organizational development expert, and mediator. She has been a Visiting Graduate Student in Labour Studies, Work and Society at McMaster University, a Visiting Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and Program Director of the Lawyering Using an Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Lens course at Osgoode. She has taught labour history, political action, group process, and community development as a part-time College Professor at George Brown College.

Tomee is a published author and media commentator.

A Short List of Publications:

• Tomee E. Sojourner-Campbell, “Damaged Goods: A Critical Perspective on Consumer Racial Profiling in Ontario’s Retail Environments,” published in Racial Profiling and Human Rights in Canada: The New Legal Landscape, by Irwin Law, Canada’s leading academic legal publisher. A ground-breaking book. (2018)
• Tomee Sojourner-Campbell, Addressing Racial Bias and Discrimination in the Workplace (LifeSpeak Article)
  *Tomee Sojourner-Campbell, The Journey to Allyship: Where to Begin (LifeSpeak Article)
  *Union Roundup: Building Solidarity Using Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Practices (Guest Column)-Below the Line, Los Angeles, California
• Toronto Star Op-ed, Racial profiling a blight on holiday shopping http://on.thestar.com/1T4IDYF via @torontostar
• ‘May I Help You?’ Holiday Shopping at the Intersections-https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/may-i-help-you-holiday-shopping-intersections-loss-tomee-e-
• “May I Help You? Disrupting Consumer Spaces ” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/may-i-help-you-disrupting-consumer-spaces-sojourner-llm-candidate
• “Commentary-Retail Businesses & Consumer Engagement: The Pitfalls of Harmful Loss Prevention Strategies”  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/retail-businesses-consumer-engagement-pitfalls-loss-tomee
• “Reading Beyond The Fine Print: Consumer Rights-It’s Time to Transform Our Thinking” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reading-beyond-fine-print-consumer-rights-its-time-tomee-6063053839211261952
• “Consumer Racial Profiling in the Retail Sector”  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/consumer-racial-profiling-retail-sector-sojourner-llm-candidate

Professional Memberships:

• Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS)
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario
• Canadian Association of Labour Media

Sample of Tomee’s Learning and Development Services for Unions and Labour Movement Organizations

Ontario Nurses’ Association Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression work across the organization (2021-2024)

National Union of General and Public Employees-All Together Now! Campaign (2011)

• Designed and developed four education modules
  • 45-minute session
  • Three 4-hour courses
• National reach across Canada
• Over 340,000 union members

OPSEU/SEFPO’s Provincial Women’s Conference (2009)

• Designed, developed and delivered a full three-day conference program, including:
  • Facilitators Train-the-Trainer
  • Facilitator and Participant Manuals
  • 6 concurrent sessions