A fine art photographer, Thom Ogee, I work with often is doing a project and is in need of ethnic models of either gender to portray struggling of race/gender/class/etc. His work has been displayed at various galleries including the contact Toronto Photography Festival.  He pays $20 a session and a session may run anywhere from 2-4 hours.  I've worked with him extensively, almost on a weekly basis for the past 8 months and I can vouch for his character.

examples of his work can be seen here:

http://s215.photobucket.com/albums/cc99/ogeeshajo/

Email him directly at ogeeshajo[at]yahoo[dot]com