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Brian Harrington
PROFESSOR
Brian Harrington is a Teaching Stream Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His research interests are computer science education, specifically as it relates to mental health and development of students, ethics of technology, and fostering social connection. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer at TalkLab, where he works to build conversational AI for use in training, education, and assessment. His goal is to build generative AI tools that are more trustworthy, less sycophantic, and more human focused.
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Stephanie Lurch
PEDIATRIC PHISIOTHERAPIST • PROFESSOR • ANTI-OPRESSION SCHOLAR
Stephanie Lurch is a pediatric physiotherapist, professor, and anti-oppression scholar working where healthcare, education, and equity collide. As one of the few Black physiotherapists in Canada who both teaches equity and maintains an active clinical practice, she speaks from inside systems that heal, harm, and decide who belongs. Over three decades, Stephanie has shaped how more than 3,000 graduate clinicians understand power, care, and responsibility. Her work is grounded in lived experience as a Black woman in medicine and professional work across three continents, including touring with Cirque du Soleil. Known for talks that challenge comfort and demand accountability, she uses story, movement, and truth-telling to expose how power moves through systems and into bodies. Stephanie is confirmed to deliver two TEDx talks in 2026 focused on power, justice, and rehumanizing healthcare.
Medicine Needs Medicine
Healthcare was designed to treat illness. But what happens when the system becomes the patient? Drawing on stories from the clinic and classroom, Dr. Stephanie Lurch exposes how power, hierarchy, and inequity shape care, and offers a prescription for transforming medicine from the inside out.
Mustafa Alshardoub
PEDIATRIC PHISIOTHERAPIST • PROFESSOR • ANTI-OPRESSION SCHOLAR
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LUIS SALVADOR
ALUMNI
Luis is a University of Toronto alum and an international student from the Philippines. He received multiple academic and leadership awards during his education and has lived and worked in both Toronto and Manila. These experiences have shaped his perspective on opportunity across different systems and exposed him to both the highs and lows of that journey. Along the way, he has had to balance ambition with responsibility, and opportunity with sacrifice, across different cultural and social contexts. As a result, he understands the personal trade-offs behind global mobility and the weight of life-defining choices, even at a young age.
Why The Grass Isn't Always Greener
In his TEDx talk, Luis explores the reality of migration, questioning the belief that opportunity and success are tied to specific locations. He invites audiences to rethink what a “better life” truly means when shaped by their values and priorities.