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Angel is aboriginal from the Haida Nation.She is the proud mother of three amazing kids and has been a dog owner for five years. She is a passionate human being and activist always fighting for human rights or the environment. When she is not doing work with the Megaphone Speakers Bureau, she is an actress. She has been nominated for Best Actress twice. At night she likes to relax with a glass or two of vodka and smoke crystal methamphetamine. Eva Takakanew was born in Edmonton, Alberta and is from Thunderchild First Nation near Turtleford, Saskatchewan.She is a descendant of Chief Poundmaker. Eva moved to Vancouver and lived with her biological mom until just after her first birthday and then was adopted at the age of two. Last July, Eva graduated with a diploma in family community counselling from Native Education College and hopes to one day work with youth. She also has aspirations to become a Native court worker. Eva loves to write and says it helps her calm her busy brain, which never seems to shut off. Mental Health Support:— Crisis Centre BC:https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/— Indian Residential School Survivors Society:https://www.irsss.ca/services — KUU-US Crisis Line:https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/ — WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre:https://www.wavaw.ca/— BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services:http://www.bcmhsus.ca/ More Resources:— "The truth must be told" by Eva Takakanew: https://www.megaphonemagazine.com/vendor_voices_july_2021— 'Neglected in Life, Dishonoured in Death' - The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/06/01/Neglected-Life-Dishonoured-Death-TRC-Excerpt/— Megaphone Speakers Bureau: https://speakersbureau.megaphonemagazine.com/
Author (aut): Angel Gates, Author (aut): Eva Takakanew, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-03-22
adrienne maree brown is a writer. She is currently the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.adrienne is the author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Resources: - adrienne's website – https://adriennemareebrown.net/ - adrienne's Twitter – https://twitter.com/Adriennemaree - Octavia's Brood – https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html - Pleasure Activism – https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html - Emergent Strategy – https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html - Audre Lorde's "The Uses of the Erotic" essay — https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf - Public Reading and Dialogue on Octavia Butler and the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMZbgo0XZA
Author (aut): adrienne maree brown, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-03-29
William G. Lindsay (Cree-Stoney) B.Ed. M.A. is retired as of 2021 after working for a quarter century in post-secondary education. This was preceded by a career in the hotel-restaurant industry. He served most recently as the Senior Director, Indigenous Directions at Concordia University in Montréal. He has experience as a college professor, university educator, researcher and published writer, student services coordinator, Associate Director, Director, and Senior Director, across the following institutions: Concordia University, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, Douglas College, Institute of Indigenous Government, and Native Education College.William's book Rez Dog Blues & The Haiku: A Savage Life in Bits and Pieces was released on Amazon in December 2021. The Vancouver Sun and The Province newspaper published book reviews on May 7-8, 2022, calling it a "new classic of Indigenous literature" and "An Indigenous Odyssey for TRC times". The book has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Whistler Independent Book Awards. This is William's second book following The Eagle and the Fish which was published in Korea by Unibooks Inc. in 2002. William has presented at twenty academic conferences during his career, his presentations dealing with Indigenous social justice, life experience, and education. Resources: Rez Dog Blues & The Haiku: A Savage Life in Bits and Pieces: https://www.amazon.ca/Rez-Dog-Blues-Haiku-Savage/dp/177792040XThe First Nations House of Learning (FNHL): https://indigenous.ubc.ca/longhouse/fnhl/The First Nations Longhouse: https://indigenous.ubc.ca/longhouse/Office for Aboriginal Peoples annual newsletter: https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2022/01/special-edition--office-for-aboriginal-peoples-annual-newsletter.htmlMarilyn Dumont: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marilyn-dumontThe Warriors (1979): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/Saturday Night Fever (1977): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076666/On The Road by Jack Kerouac (1957): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_RoadSherman Alexie: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sherman-alexieCahokia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia
Author (aut): William Lindsay, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-06-21
Lori MacDonald is a white settler on the traditional, stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations where she aims for a future surrounded by justice, dignity and reciprocal relationship-building.She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Contemporary Dance and a Masters in Urban Studies from Simon Fraser University. During her thesis research: Mapping Daily Mobility in Metro Vancouver: An Ethnography of Regional Transportation for Newcomers Studying within the Service Industry, she was witness to the emergence of mobility as settlement and belonging in the region. In her professional role as the Executive Director of the Emily Carr Students' Union, she has spent over a decade, advocating, lobbying and when necessary – protesting – for the development of Metro Vancouver's deeply affordable post-secondary transit program, U-Pass BC. She has spent time during the pandemic questioning everything she has ever accepted as normal.Sadia Tabassum currently lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she grew up. It's supposed to be one of the most "unlivable" cities in the world, but Sadia finds that livability is about as simple as the bus routes and schedules in Dhaka.Sadia studied Architecture as an undergraduate student in upstate New York in the US and later worked as a cost estimator for a rebar supplier company near Syracuse, NY. When she returned to Dhaka, Sadia worked as an architect for a few years before eventually working on the first light rail project in Dhaka, the new MRT line, drafting electrical and mechanical system drawings for its stations. She left that role to join the Urban Studies graduate program at SFU, during which time Sadia worked briefly as a designer/researcher for a non-profit organization in Vancouver where she helped create toolkits for social procurement among developers and suppliers in ongoing development projects.Sadia's current projects in Dhaka continue to be inspired by her love for architecture, sustainable design and innovative transit-oriented city planning that help create more accessible, equitable, sustainable and livable urban spaces.Resources: Meet Steve Tornes: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/about/updates/all-updates/meet-steve-tornes.htmlMapping Daily Mobility in Metro Vancouver: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/18639Embodied Fear, Perceived Safety and Transit-Based Mobility Among Women of Color in Metro Vancouver: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/18639Fresh Voices Report: http://freshvoices.ca/reports/2015-report/The Untokening: http://www.untokening.org/summaryDignity Institute: https://thrivancegroup.com/dignity-institute
Author (aut): Lori MacDonald, Author (aut): Sadia Tabassum, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-07-05
Peter V. Hall was Dean pro tem in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and is Professor of Urban Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His areas of research include port cities, community and local economic development, and he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport Geography. He was Principal Investigator of the Employer Transit Subsidy Study. Resources: Meet Steve Tornes: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/about/updates/all-updates/meet-steve-tornes.htmlSimon Fraser University Employer Transit Subsidy Study, Main Report: https://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/20608/20200929_ETSS_final%20report_REV_summit.pdfSimon Fraser University Employer Transit Subsidy Study, Executive SUmmary: https://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/20609/20200910_ETSS_EXEC_Summary_web.pdfEmployer-paid transit subsidies and travel behaviour: Experimental evidence from Vancouver hotels: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667091721000066
Author (aut): Hall, Peter V., Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes, Author (aut): Alex Masse
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Author (aut): McGregor, Hannah, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-08
Author (aut): Fukumura, June , Author (aut): Magpantay, Anjela, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-15
Author (aut): Farha, Leilani, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-17
Author (aut): Freeman, Lindsey, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-22
Author (aut): Farzan, Faranak , Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-24
Author (aut): Del Bianco, Elvy, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-10-06
Author (aut): Richards, Vanessa, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella
Date created: 2020-08-18
Author (aut): Sacco, Joe , Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella
Date created: 2020-08-27
Author (aut): Farha, Leilani, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-17
Author (aut): Farzan, Faranak , Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-24
Author (aut): Tl'aḵwasik̓a̱n, Khelsilem, Author (aut): Flett, Julie, Author (aut): Reimer, Andrea, Author (aut): George, Charlene, Author (aut): Johal, Am
Date created: 2019-04-26
Video recording talk and panel discussion of The Human Right to Housing and the Vancouver Situation.
Author (aut): Kothari, Miloon, Author (aut): Young, Margot, Author (aut): Swanson, Jean, Author (aut): Hern, Matt, Author (aut): Seigl, sχ?emt?na:t, St’agid Jaad, Audrey, Author (aut): Johal, Am
Date created: 2017-06-05
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Hern, Matt, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Coulthard, Glen , Author (aut): Bates, Lisa , Author (aut): Al-Zobaidi, Sobhi , Author (aut): Anthony, Josiane
Date created: 2016-10-27
Author (aut): Marks, Laura, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-10-20
Author (aut): Gomes, Luiza M. F., Author (aut): Vieira, Rafael P., Author (aut): Jones, Michael R., Author (aut): Wang, Michael C.P., Author (aut): Dyrager, Christine, Author (aut): Souza-Fagundes, Elaine M., Author (aut): Da Silva, Jeferson G., Author (aut): Storr, Tim, Author (aut): Beraldo, Heloisa
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