BAERG Did You Know Series: Winsome E. Smith

Winsome E. Smith

Did you know that Winsome Smith was the first black female Chair of the Board of Governors of the Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning? There is a scholarship named in her honour that was established for Black and Indigenous first year students exhibiting academic excellence.

Dr. Smith was born in Jamaica, where she received a scholarship to attend Dalhousie University. She later pursued post-graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where she obtained a specialty in Paediatric Dentistry in 1972.

Dr. Smith operates two dental practices for children and youth. She remains the first and only Black female paediatric dentist in all of Canada.

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