Detangled Creators & Guests

Dr. Sonia Kang is a professor and behavioral researcher. Her research focuses on identity, diversity, and inclusion.Dr. Kang holds the Canada Research Chair in Identity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the University of Toronto, where she is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the Rotman School of Management’s Institute for Gender and the Economy and Chief Scientist, Organizations in the Behavioural Economics in Action Research Centre at Rotman. She is also the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Special Advisor on Anti-Racism and Equity.Dr Kang received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Toronto and completed a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University.

Naben Ruthnum is a writer. He has published under both his own name and the pen name Nathan Ripley.Previously, Ruthnum was a National Post books columnist, and has written book reviews and cultural criticism for the Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, and the Walrus.Ruthnum's crime fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Joyland. His first book, "Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race," was published in 2017.He won the Journey Prize in 2013 for his short story "Cinema Rex", and has since published the books Curry: Reading, Eating and Race (2017), a non-fiction essay collection about immigrant cultural identity in food and literature, and two literary thriller novels, Find You in the Dark and Your Life is Mine. Ruthnum's current novel, A Hero of Our Time, was published in January, 2022 and a novella, Helpmeet, was published in May, 2022.Originally from Kelowna, British Columbia, Ruthnum is of Mauritian descent. He has a master's degree from McGill University, where he wrote his thesis on the role of Oscar Wilde in the development of the ghost story in British literature.Outside of his literary work, Ruthnum is also a former musician, most notable as the founding guitarist for Bend Sinister, a Vancouver-based progressive rock band.