David Jerome Lewis-Peart

David Lewis-Peart is a Toronto-born writer, social worker, and psychotherapist. He is the author of Pray You Break, a self-published poetry collection, and creator of the GRACE Principle, a framework he developed as a college lecturer and corporate DEI educator to foster engagement across difference.

David has been a fellow with the Heterodox Academy Writers Group under Dr. Musa al-Gharbi and most recently served as an Ambassador with the ProHuman Foundation. He has presented with The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) Canada and at The Counterweight Conference on Liberal Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion, where he led “The Space for GRACE: Holding Whole People in Divided Times.”

A former lecturer and ordained minister, David co-founded Sunset Service Toronto Fellowship, a not-for-profit spiritual arts community recognized by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation in 2014 and 2016, and named Best Activist Religious Group – Runner-up by NOW Magazine in 2015. In 2017, he was appointed Co-Chair of the Next Generation Task Force for the Parliament of the World’s Religions, where he oversaw youth and young adult programming for the 2018 Parliament in Toronto.

His writing and commentary have appeared in CBC Arts, Huffington Post Canada, ByBlacks, Global News, and he is a former playwright fellow with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Obsidian Theatre Company. David’s work has earned him numerous awards, including the inaugural Walden New Thought Award for socially conscious leadership, the Christopher Hewitt Award for Poetry (Honourable Mention, 2018), and recognition as a community curator for the Lambda Literary Festival.