Equity in Practice

Jun 22, 2021  6:00 PM

(GMT -7:00) Pacific Time

Event URL:  https://www.sfu.ca/sfu-community/events.html#!view/event/event_id/23755
Cost:  Free

The power to make social change lives within community leaders.

SFU’s Community Capacity Building Certificate supports learners as they engage community by sharing lived experiences and adopting new tools for building projects and movements. Learners have been deepening their relationships with themselves, their communities and the land to create a project and move forward a change they’d like to see in the world.

Join us to hear inspiring stories from the most recent cohort of learners and their growth as emerging leaders working towards equity in their communities.

Storytellers

Emerald Asuncion and Desmond Williams — two friends working to build a new healing space and cultural hub in Vancouver for racialized communities. Read more.

Jshandeep Jassal — a youth community worker who plans to launch a new peer support network for South Asian youth. Read more.

Jónína Kirton — an Icelandic-Métis poet working to support and connect racialized and marginalized writers. Read more.

Mateo Tobar — a young social innovator who dreams of empowering Ecuador’s youth to create a better future. Read more.

Andrea Wheeler — a seventh-generation settler, farmer and community organizer who is exploring and facilitating a collaborative practice of decolonial land stewardship and community engagement as a form of landback.

The event will be moderated by Vanessa Richards (Instructor of the Community Capacity Building Certificate) with a welcome from Yvonne Rigsby Jones (Class Elder of the Community Capacity Building Certificate).