Darnel T. Forro
Biography
Darnel T. Forro is passionate about the critical examination and deconstruction of dominant discourses that define and silence the realities of oppressed populations. As a Ph.D. student at Memorial University, his doctoral work was invested in understanding the sexual experiences of migrant and racialized queer Filipino men in rural Canadian contexts. Darnel is an advocate for the centering of pre-colonial global south knowledges as a means for resistance and liberation and as a potent tool for exploring contemporary experiences of individuals and collectives whose life stories are marked by invisibility and erasure.
Darnel is a faculty member in the Social Work Diploma at RDP where he demonstrates pedagogical, curricular and instructional leadership in methods courses. As a social work educator, he strongly believes in the inclusion of diverse and marginalized voices and of safe, equitable, dynamic and critically reflexive learning spaces. Prior to his teaching career, Darnel was a medical social worker with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority where he was privileged to provide psychosocial assessment and intervention for Manitoba’s most disenfranchised health and mental health service users.
As a registered social worker, Darnel previously served as council member of the profession’s regulatory body, the Alberta College of Social Workers and board member of the Social Workers Association of Alberta. In the past, he was elected to the boards of directors of Rainbow Resource Centre in Manitoba and of the Central Alberta Pride Society. Darnel organized various initiatives promoting social awareness of racialized queer issues and sexualities in Central Alberta. He also served as a speaker on these topics at numerous educational events and conferences.
Education
- M.SW. (Social-Clinical Intervention), University of Manitoba
- B.SW., University of Manitoba
- B.A. (Psychology), Central Philippine University