She is an award-winning Professor, Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist.
Marty Lampkin (she/her) is an Afro-Caribbean woman who lives by her motto, "My Ancestors did not die for me to remain silent."
She is an award-winning Professor, Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist. She is a strong advocate, educator and consultant on the intersection of Anti-Black Racism for Black people living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), intellectual disabilities and neurodiversity and their caregivers.
Marty’s leadership has led to the founding of the first Anti-Racism Black Cultural Awareness Group within a leading developmental disability and autism agency in the city of Toronto. She not only created a safe space for Black-identifying clinicians across the agency, but led the development of Anti-Black Racism education and training for both leadership and frontline staff.
Marty has consulted on discrimination issues within the disability sector and has developed a unique program for Black adults with ASD. Her work has highlighted how Black families experience a lack of culturally-appropriate care and increased incidents of racism when trying to access support for their children living with complex disabilities. Her work can be seen on TVO The Agenda with Steve Paikin and featured article in NOW Toronto Magazine.
Marty is the founder of a community program titled Racism affects me too, which focuses on the impacts of Anti-Black Racism on individuals living with intellectual disabilities or ASD. Her work from the Racismaffectsmetoo program was requested to be presented in 2024 as the Keynote speaker at the Ontario Association on Developmental Disability Conference (OADD), The Community Living Inclusion Symposium and the ODEN Rethinking Disability Conference.
Marty is also the founder of the first Masabilities: Carnival without limits in which she created a Disability Inclusive Carnival experience in the City of Toronto during the Toronto Caribbean Carnival Parade traditionally known as Caribana.
As a professor in the School of Community and Social Services, she is an educator on Anti-Oppressive Practice, Anti-Black Racism and Mental Health and has contributed to the development of a Black Futures Campus Hub Space to provide supports to staff, faculty and students. She is one of the founding members and remains an active advisory committee member addressing pervasiveness of Anti-black Racism in Post -Secondary institutions. Marty has created the first Black Disability Freedom Space event which she cultivated to bring to light the intersection of Blackness and Disability for faculty, students and staff.
Lastly, she also the recipient of the Surrey Place Award for consistently demonstrating the values of collaboration, accountability, innovation, respect and responsiveness in 2021, nominated for the Disability Access Award from the City of Toronto Access, Equity and Human Rights Award and the recipient of the 2023, the recipient of the Inspirational Leader Award from the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) in 2023 and the the 2025 Black Health Care Hero Award from the Black Health Professional Network and the 2025 Noreen Adam Trailblazer Award in Accessibility from Community Living Toronto.