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Karen Mock is an educational psychologist and human rights activist. She was executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation from 2001 to 2005 and, previously, was national director of the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada for twelve years as well as executive director of the League’s Human Rights Education and Training Centre.

Family

Dr. Mock was born and raised in Toronto. She has been married for 43 years to Dr. David Mock, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. They have two sons - Daniel, a musician, married to Ashley Miller; and Steven, a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Waterloo.

Career

She was educated at the University of Toronto, earning her Ph.D. in Applied Psychology in 1975. Dr. Mock is a certified teacher and registered psychologist, specializing in human rights, hate crime and diversity issues and multicultural/anti-racist education. She has also been recognized by the courts as an expert on hate groups, hate group activity, discrimination and anti-Semitism. Mock served as part of the Canadian Delegation to the Durban I World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa in 2001.

Over a period of twenty years, Dr. Mock taught courses in multiculturalism and race relations, developmental and educational psychology, and psychological testing and assessment at University of Toronto, Ryerson Polytechnical University and York University teaching courses in multiculturalism and race relations, developmental and educational psychology, and psychological testing and assessment.

Dr. Mock is immediate past president of the Canadian Friends of Haifa University. She is the past president of the Ontario Multicultural Association, a former member of the board of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, and past chair of the Canadian Multiculturalism Advisory Committee.

She was appointed Chair of the Hate Crimes Community Working Group, reporting to the Government of Ontario in December 2006, and served as Senior Policy Advisor on Diversity and Equity to the Minister of Education for the development and delivery of Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy, that was released in April 2009.

Political activity

Mock was the Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Member of Parliament in the Ontario riding of Thornhill against Conservative MP and Minister of the Environment Peter Kent in the 2011 federal election. In that election Mock was defeated by incumbent Peter Kent by over 22,000 votes. Liberal support has greatly dropped.

Awards

Dr. Mock received the International Women’s Day Award from the Women’s Intercultural Network. In 1993 awarded an Honourable Mention as a YWCA Woman of Distinction and in 1995 named to the Who’s Who of Canadian Women. In 2005, designated a Woman of Influence by the University of Saskatchewan.

In 2002, she received the Excellence in Race Relations Award from the Human Rights Council of the Ahmadiyya Movement of Islam in Canada, was the 2004 recipient of the Sikh Centennial Foundation Award for Civil Liberties Advocacy, and was named an Eminent Woman of Peace in 2008 by the Department of Peace Initiative and Voices of Women in Ottawa. Dr. Mock is included as one of the 100 worldwide “Everyday Freedom Heroes” for her human rights and antiracism work, in a permanent display at the Freedom Center in Cincinnati, the U.S. National Museum to the Underground Railroad.

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