The Culture Shift is a monthly series of conversations with intersectional artists and arts workers working at the forefront of their practice, and pushing systems change from both within and outside of our institutional spaces. Episode 2 is in conversation with writer, journalist and newly appointed Director of UBC’s School of Journalism, Writing and Media, Kamal Al-Solaylee. Al-Solaylee is the author of the nationally bestselling memoir Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), hailed as “brilliant” by the Walrus magazine and “essential reading” by the Globe and Mail and most recently, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From. Kamal joins the show to discuss his new book, the ongoing search for a homeland and what it means to be the School of Journalism’s first BIPOC Director.