Connection Newsletter March 2023

Connection The Coady

WELCOME from INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, EILEEN ALMA

Warm greetings from Coady Institute! This newsletter provides you with an update on the incredibly rich number of learning exchanges and activities we have been involved in over the past several months and the inspired work being led by our partners locally and around the globe. A sample of these initiatives include the design and delivery of a course co-hosted by TGNP in Tanzania on Feminist Advocacy for Gender Justice with attendance at full capacity, learning changes between and among partners hosted by SEWA in India, supporting the creation of the Nova Scotia Non-Profit Housing Association, development of a youth framework for the Nova Scotia employment sector and ongoing support and engagement with Indigenous women leaders across Turtle Island. We’ve also developed a new educational partnership with the Aboriginal Shelters of Ontario and started a major collaboration with the Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism on co-development of community programming incorporating Asset-based Citizen-led Development (ABCD).

The past few months have also been marked by active engagement, advocacy and awareness raising here in Canada. Coady Institute has contributed to important events that mark African History Month, including hosting the Topshee Memorial Series featuring three panelists to honour the legacy and contributions of Black workers in our province and the issues they

continue to face. On February 7, I took part in meetings on Parliament Hill in Ottawa advocating with colleagues in the development sector for an increase in spending on development and humanitarian assistance as part of International Development Week. And this month, we again recognized International Women’s Day with virtual seminars, in-person stand-ins and many conversations that again stress the work yet to be done to ensure gender equity and justice for all.

Looking ahead, we are excited about the return of our Diploma in Development Leadership after a hiatus for several years. Beginning online this month, we will welcome program participants back to campus on May 15, along with learners who will take part in shorter courses. We will also have the Fellows from our current Pathy Foundation Fellowship program back in Antigonish at the end of May, and a new group of Fellows joining us in June. This marks the eighth cohort of this very prestigious program.

Co-creation of learning opportunities and knowledge generation for social change is at the core of what we do, and nothing is better than creating spaces for dedicated leaders to exchange experiences and ideas. We hope that you will take a moment to look at all of the programs and other initiatives that Coady Institute has to offer, whether oncampus, online or in communities here and abroad. We look forward to welcoming you!

WELCOME NEW GRADUATES!

We are pleased to congratulate more than 100 graduates from Coady courses and workshops since September 2022, including online, on-campus, and in-community cohorts.

13 Indigenous women leaders completed the intensive four-month Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program. After completing the on-campus component, participants returned to their respective communities to implement community projects with the support of program Mentors, Coady Staff, and community partners. Final presentations and graduation were hosted in Stoney Nakoda First Nation.

21 participants completed a six-day Feminist Advocacy for Gender Justice workshop hosted in partnership with the Tanaznia Gender Networking Programme (TGNP) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. TGNP’s Gender Training Institute (GTI) is one of five ENGAGE program partners working toward women’s empowerment and active citizenship. This workshop was tailored to the contexts of Coady partners in India, Bangladeshi, Haiti, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Participants also graduated from online certificates including:

• Indigenous Women in Leadership

• Future of Work and Workers

• Feminist Leadership for Justice, Equity and Ecology

These community leaders join more than 10,000 Coady graduates globally working for social change.

Photo courtesy TGNP

ENGAGE: WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT

Learning Forum in Ethiopia

Ethiopian project partner, Women in Self Employment (WISE) hosted the first in-person planning session for all project partners since the global Covid-19 pandemic forced a sudden online adoption in 2020 – shortly after the initiative was launched.

Project partners from the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), Christian Commission for Development (CCDB) in Bangladesh, Centre Haïtien du Leadership et de l’Excellence (CLE) in Haiti, as well as staff from Coady Institute in Canada travelled to Addis Ababa in September 2022, while partners from the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India joined the group virtually.

The project’s Planning Steering Committee met to review progress, goals and outcomes, and future planning. Coady Staff Veronica Torres led the groups through a two-day Learning Forum focused on the collective research component of each organization’s ENGAGE initiative, where team members had the opportunity to learn from and contribute to each other’s work.

WISE hosted partners at their campus for a day of educational panels. UN Women Ethiopia, ActionAid Ethiopia, and the Addis Ababa Women’s Affairs Office presented a panel titled, ‘Beyond Economic Empowerment: Unleashed Potential in Leadership Beyond Business Venture’ and ENGAGE partners presented a panel focused on Asset-Based and CitizenLed Development (ABCD). Research partners also met with WISE/ENGAGE program participants for a series of interviews.

and ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP

Project partners from Haiti, Tanzania, and Canada also joined WISE in celebration of their 25th anniversary, which featured an exhibition from WISE members and program participants and a congratulatory speech from Ethiopian President, SahleWork Zewde.

Read the latest ENGAGE Newsletter for updates from partners in Bangladesh, Haiti, India, and Tanzania

GRADUATE SUPPORT NETWORKS in ZIMBABWE

Saliwe Mutetwa-Zakariya and Yeukai Muzezewa are part of a network of more than 100 Coady graduates in Zimbabwe, and though they live and work on opposite ends of the country, they share a common bond. They are dedicated advocates for women and girls’ empowerment through education, health, and business.

Both graduates of Coady’s Global Change Leaders (GCL) program, they are currently active participants of the START4GIRLS initiative – working to strengthen the agency and capacities of adolescent girls and young women in Zimbabwe, and the education system that supports them.

Working to Support Women and Girls

Saliwe is the Director of Talia Women’s Network in Harare. The organization aims to “empower women and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice … through economic and social programs that enable women and children to realise their potential”.

When she graduated from the Global Change Leaders program in 2022, Saliwe received the prestigious Katherine Fleming International Development Award scholarship aimed to support of African women leaders and honour the

memory of the late Katherine Fleming who was committed to advancing gender equality and lifting women and girls out of poverty through education and economic empowerment.

When Yeukai attended the Global Change Leaders program in 2018, she was a Project Coordinator for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe where she focused on Malariaprevention and economic empowerment in communities impacted by the illness. Now, she is an entrepreneur focused on baking traditional foods in her community of Bulawayo.

“As someone who has always had a passion for women’s empowerment and retraining the girl child, we decided as a family that 10 per cent of all our profits from the businesses that we are running will go into retraining girls.

“Every quarter I go out into the rural areas and do programs with the girls; I focus on life skills. We do confidence-building and we do sessions on hygiene. We also provide sanitary wear, stationary, school uniforms, and pay school fees for girls in those rural schools.”

Saliwe Mutetwa-Zakariya Yeukai Muzezew

L to R: Martha Fanjoy (Coady staff), Veronica Torres (Coady Staff), Saliwe Mutetwa-Zakariya, Yeukai Muzezewa

ZIMBABWE

From Learning to Practice

Though Saliwe has only been back in Harare for several months, she is already putting her learnings into practice.

“The GCL experience really enlightened me on certain aspects with regards to feminist approaches and also, just the teaching methodologies that we were exposed to,” she says.

“We work with vulnerable women and girls in terms of economic empowerment and livelihoods through our street business school curriculum. Then we also have a leadership development program that we run with young urban women.

“Prior to my attending GCL, we were looking mostly at work readiness skills and life skills –getting young women internships so that at least they can get some work experience. But with the exposure that I got with GCL, we’re now trying to incorporate some of those elements into the work that we do.

“The GCL experience really enlightened me on certain aspects with regards to feminist approaches and also, just the teaching methodologies that we were exposed to.”

Saliwe Mutetwa-Zakariya

“For starters, there's the theater of the oppressed, and art for healing therapy, and just the general understanding of what feminism and a feminist approach is – we are trying to incorporate those when looking at the ways we can empower women, particularly young women, to be able to have the confidence and the courage to speak out about issues that affect them and let the voices be heard.”

For Yeukai, the program experience was a personal one.

During her childhood, her mother gave birth to eight girls, then lastly gave birth to a baby boy.

“I’m coming from a patriarchal society,” she explains. “It's not that my mother wanted nine children, but I'm coming from a society where the girl child was looked down upon. It's like my mother had to have nine children; it’s like the boy is the end of the of the line.

“It was like all of us, the eight girls, we are nothing. It's only the one boy was recognized in the society that I grew up in.”

Yeukai says her experience limited her own view on what she was able to achieve as a woman.

“When I came to Coady, it was not only about the (classroom) teaching but also the interactions with other young women. I realized that I can achieve whatever the male child can achieve.

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“There were 17 women from different countries in my group, and one thing that I realized was that most of the young women that I was learning with were running businesses or their own organizations, they're holding big posts in the organizations that they are working with. To me, it made me feel that I'm able to accomplish anything; whether I am a woman or I am a man, I still have the capacity to do everything that I want to do.”

Yeukai says she’s also been able to apply practices from the program within her household.

“I had been working for a faith-based organization with this attitude of waiting for missionaries to come and help us, but when we learned about the Asset-based Community Development

(ABCD) approach, it really changed my way of thinking because I realized we have been waiting for a long time but, we actually have a lot that we could use to develop ourselves – to develop our communities, and to develop our families.

“When I came to Coady, it was not only about the (classroom) teaching but also the interactions with other young women. I realized that I can achieve whatever the male child can achieve.”

Yeukai Muzezewa

“It actually changed the way we saw ourselves even as a family.”

Yeukai says her experience at Coady motivated her to start her own business. They held a family meeting, and they mapped their assets together.

“I can tell you from that family meeting, we came up with ideas. We identified the skills that we have, we identified the assets that we have, and we built a business out of that.

“So, for me, my Coady experience didn't only transform the way I was doing my work in the community, but even the way I view myself personally – it also transformed my family.”

Graduates Supporting Graduates

Though Saliwe and Yeukai attended programs in different years, and live on opposite sides of the country, they have continued to connect with each other and with other graduates in Zimbabwe who are working on similar issues. They have leveraged online tools such as Facebook and WhatsApp to create groups of graduates used for sharing educational information, opportunities, and to celebrate each other’s successes.

“When I came to Coady, I connected with some Zimbabweans who were [a part of] the Diploma in Development Leadership,” Yeukai says.

“One specific person is Robert Mtisi. Robert is skilled in women’s empowerment through beekeeping training. So, when I was doing community work in one rural area, he was able to come and train the women in the community I was working with.”

Yeukai says graduates have also come together to respond to calls for proposals to work further across the continent.

Ongoing Accompaniment

Saliwe says the network and the ongoing relationship with both graduates and staff makes the Coady experience unique.

“I find so much warmth and comfort in the fact that the Coady family is quite a tightknit family and they have been able to offer ongoing support. Not just with the Coady graduates – it goes beyond that,” she explains.

“I find so much warmth and comfort in the fact that the Coady family is quite a tightknit family and they have been able to offer ongoing support. Not just with the Coady graduates - it goes beyond that.”

Saliwe Mutetwa-Zakariy

“The Coady staff also goes out of the way to offer support throughout the whole journey. I've maintained strong relationships throughout, and the support is tailor made to your particular needs.”

Saliwe says a casual conversation turned into a weekly writing support group ‘championed’ by former Coady staff Robin Neustaeter, while Sarika Sinha (Program Teaching Staff) leads the postprogram mentorship “where she’s linking us up with various feminists” to further knowledge and practice. Yeukai notes a future meeting planned with Veronica Torres (Program Teaching Staff) “to take us through how we do research”, and that she’s had numerous opportunities to engage in more Coady programs, conferences, and other opportunities since the GCL program in 2018.

“There was a call for work that was to be implemented in three African countries,” she explains. “So, we utilized that opportunity to say there's a Coady graduate in Kenya, and another one in Zambia, and another one in Zimbabwe, and we responded together as three Coady graduates from different countries.”

Both graduates note that the ongoing accompaniment from staff separates the Coady experience from other educational opportunities.

“The key for me is getting an opportunity to practice what we are taught because it's one thing to acquire knowledge, but it's also another thing to be able to impart it to others,” Saliwe says.

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Women Supporting Women

Saliwe and Yeukai are exploring more ways of working together through both of their respective organizations – something Saliwe says is a refreshing approach in the region’s sector.

“We find that many times in our space when we are looking at working in women’s economic empowerment initiatives, we don't collaborate as easily – particularly in my side of the world when there's very little funding, and there's so many women's organizations trying to accomplish almost similar objectives,” Saliwe explains.

“The Talia Women's Network makes reusable sanitary pads, and I've been donating sanitary pads,” Yeukai explains. “So, I was talking with Saliwe to say that maybe we can actually work together. You produce for me, and I buy those from you, and I go and donate them in the rural areas that I'm working with.”

“There's a lot of competition,” Saliwe adds. “So, it's very rare to find someone who wants to share an opportunity with you. That's what I appreciate about Yeukai. She was willing to share an opportunity.

“I'm really looking forward to what we can do together collaboratively. Because now that I know I've got a Coady sister here, we are going to support each other and advance our objectives and our mandates together.”

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know I've got a Coady sister here, we are going to support each other and advance our objectives and our mandates together.”

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Saliwe Mutetwa-Zakariya

COADY at STFX CONVOCATION

On December 4, St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) hosted their Fall Convocation ceremony graduating more than 350 students.

At the ceremony, Coady staff Yogesh Ghore (Strategic Partnerships Advisor, Senior Program Teaching Staff) was awarded the university’s Outstanding Staff Teaching Award which recognizes those who have contributed exceptionally to students’ learning experiences.

Longtime Coady supporter Dr. Maureen Coady (StFX Department of Adult Education), who is also a grandniece of the late Rt. Rev. Moses Coady, received the StFX Outreach Award.

KEEP the PROMISE: AN OPEN LETTER to CANADA’S FINANCE MINISTER CHRYSTIA FREELAND

Coady Institute is one of 77 non-governmental organizations that sent an open letter to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, ahead of the 2023 federal budget asking her to keep the promise to increase our international assistance contributions.

“Foreign aid is not a handout. It is an investment in the type of world we all want to see … At a time when communities around the world need the support of Canada, we cannot afford to let them down.”

Read the letter

LOCAL ENGAGEMENT in NOVA SCOTIA

New Provincial Housing Association Forms in Nova Scotia

Two days of meetings amongst non-profit housing providers and the housing groups, networks, and coalitions who support their work has culminated in the formation of a new provincial association aimed to strengthen the community housing sector in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Non-Profit Housing Association (NSNPHA) will work to promote the mobilization, empowerment, growth, and sustainability of non-profit housing providers and the groups, networks, and coalitions that support their work to respond to the need for safe, accessible, and affordable housing throughout the province.

“The formation of the Nova Scotia Non-Profit Housing Association will provide a means through which communication and collaboration can be fostered among non-profit housing providers in the province and the housing groups, networks and coalitions that support their work.

My hope is that together, as a sector, we will be able to create affordable, accessible, and appropriate housing solutions faster and more sustainably for people in housing need, especially those who are living on low incomes.”

Pauline MacIntosh Program Staff, Coady Institute

The Process: Build Together and Founding Meeting

In partnership with the Community Housing Transformation Centre (The Centre), Coady Institute has been working to strengthen the community housing sector in Nova Scotia through the Build Together project. In Phase I, the Build Together team facilitated consultations throughout the province to identify the desired changes from within the sector. These findings shaped the direction of Phase II, advancing the formation of a provincial association.

The Build Together team hosted a Founding Meeting on October 26 and 27 at St. Francis Xavier University. More than 80 attendees (in-person and virtual) worked through governance models, sustainability and strategic planning, DEID (diversity, equity, inclusion, and decolonization), identifying organizational values, composing regional housing networks, and endorsing an interim board of directors for the association.

“The Antigonish meeting was inspiring. It opened all kinds of new avenues for the future of community housing in Nova Scotia. A province-wide not-forprofit housing association is a significant vehicle for leveraging knowledge and capacity, ultimately allowing for a more robust and impactful sector. It represents a meaningful step towards solving the housing crisis.”

Stéphan Corriveau Executive Director, The Centre

What Happens Next

A 13-person interim board has formed. Its members, along with 20 others from communities across Nova Scotia, have created three collaborative groups that will work to build a strong foundation for the NSNPHA with a view to holding its inaugural annual general meeting before mid-April 2023.

Youth Engagement Resource Now Available

The Centre for Employment Innovation (CEI) recently introduced a new resource for employers, organizations, and service providers looking to better support youth (18 to 34 years) in the early phases of their careers. Developed with extensive insights and knowledge from a diverse range of youth, employers, organizations, and service providers who live and work in Nova Scotia, the CEI's Youth Engagement Framework includes the following:

• peer-reviewed research,

• research specific to Nova Scotia,

• stories of successful initiatives and practices,

• a collection of external resources, and

• downloadable tools.

To create the framework, CEI Youth Research and Engagement Specialist Addy Strickland surveyed, interviewed, and held focus groups for a diverse range of youth living and working in Nova Scotia, and did the same for the employers, organizations, and service providers looking to engage youth in their work. A Youth Advisory Group with representation from across the province met regularly from October 2021 to July 2022.

The framework is a compilation of learnings, tools, and resources aimed at helping adults engage and support young people. It highlights the following four key pillars:

1. Fostering Youth-Adult Partnership

2. Creating Welcoming, Youth-Friendly Spaces

3. Supporting Youth Mental Well-Being

4. Highlighting Youth Voice

The framework also includes a blog (with contributions from youth advisory group members, CEI staff, and others) that hosts additional content related to youth engagement in the workplace. One highlight from the blog is a podcast called Queer(ies): Conversations about LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences in the Workplace, which is hosted by CEI Youth Research and Engagement Intern May Lawless and features other 2SLGBTQ+ youth, employers, and business owners in Nova Scotia as guests. May began working with the CEI in May 2022, and developed this podcast as a self-directed project during their summer internship.

To access the Youth Engagement Framework, please visit:

stfxemploymentinnovation.ca/yef-home

COLLABORATION AROUND the GLOBE

The 2022-23 Pathy Fellows and team came together in Montreal for two days of reconnecting, action planning, peer support, brainstorming, sharing lessons, and more.

ENGAGE partner Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), held a training on gender equitable leadership for its staff and partners on the project.

More than 450 participants, including Coady staff and ENGAGE partners, joined the TGNP’s Zonal Gender Festival focused on economic justice.

Photos courtesy TGNP

Coady Institute met with partners WEAction Ethiopia and the Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) from the Rural Women Cultivating Change initiative, led by SeedChange / Sème l’avenir in Ethiopia.

The 2022 Indigenous Women in Community Leadership cohort visit Pictou Landing First Nation for shared learning and celebration.

ENGAGE partner, Women in Self Employment (WISE), celebrated 25 years of supporting women in economic empowerment through savings and credit cooperatives.

ENGAGE partner, the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), celebrated 50 years of organizing and working with informal sector women in India.

The Coady team supporting START4Girls facilitated a workshop on adult education practices for instructors and principals of TVET institutions. The workshop included participation from all technical specialists on the team in Zimbabwe. The workshop took place at the Magamba TVET provincial centre in Mutare, Zimbabwe.

SEWA hosted ENGAGE partners for an Exchange and Dialogue Program including deep conversations with members and visits to the SEWA Bank, weaving cooperatives, childcare centres, SEWA Management School, and Salt Pan workers.

CCDB and Coady staff travelled to Patharghata in Southern Bangladesh to hear from members of the women’s groups supported by ENGAGE for collective research and to conduct monitoring evaluation and learning (MEL) focus groups.

Coady staff recently visited World Agroforestry - ICRAF in Nairobi, Kenya to support the Farmerled Tools, Dashboard Development and the Future of Farming initiative. Supported by the Fund for Innovation & Transformation, the initiative aims to advance gender equality through economic and political empowerment.

Videos Highlight ABCD Work in Kenya

For nearly a decade longtime Coady partners World Agro-Forestry Centre (ICRAF) and the Comart Foundation have been working together in the Nyando region in western Kenya. Projects have included the Comart Foundation funded Accelerating Adoption of Agroforestry (Triple A) project and the Farmer-led Tools, Dashboard Development and the Future of Farming supported by Global Affair Canada’s Fund for Innovation and Transformation (FIT). Community members are using an asset-based community-driven (ABCD) approach to work toward gender equity, improving livelihoods and landscapes, and recording and understanding data. A series of three videos released in November 2023 document the outcomes of ICRAF’s work and the legacy of Comart’s investments in the region.

While FIT did not contribute financially to the videos, the stories and results that were captured were based very much on Coady’s work with ICRAF through the FIT project. The project identified participatory ways of collecting farm-level data and helped understand how that data can be made accessible to smallholder farmers, with particular focus on women and girls. ICRAF has acknowledged the contributions at the end of the videos.

The videos are:

Working together for gender equity: ABCD

Community members in western Kenya are working together for gender equity after adopting an ABCD approach.

Focusing on assets and agency to improve livelihoods and landscapes: ABCD

Community members in western Kenya are adopting the ABCD approach and focus on their assets and agency to improve their livelihoods and landscapes.

Recording and understanding your data: ABCD

Community members in western Kenya are recording and using their on- and off-farm data with the help of the integrated household leaky bucket tool, which helps them make evidence-based livelihood decisions. The leaky bucket is the ‘star tool’ introduced through the ABCD approach.

Learn more about ICRAF’s ABCD Work.

RECENT EVENTS

International Development Week

Feminist Speaker Series

Voice, Visibility, and Viability: Path to Women’s Economic Power with Reema Nanavaty (in partnership with ACIC)

Engaging Feminism: Is Democracy in Crisis? With Violeta Barrientos-Silva.

The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods with John McKnight and Cormac Russell

Health and Wellness Open House at Paqtnkek Mi'kmaw Nation

Food Security at the Antigonish Farmers’ Market

IDW on Parliament Hill with Cooperation Canada.

16 Days of Activism

An International Perspective on the Right to Choose Safely with Katherine Fleming Award recipients Saliwe

International Women’s Week

Learning Forum with George Mwai of the East Africa Sexual Health and Rights Initiative

Mutetwa and Vera Elikem Awuye.

The Role of Municipalities and Affordable Housing with Erika Shea

International Women’s Day Gathering and Stand-Out

#EmbraceEquity: International Perspectives with Coady Graduates

Seeds of Survival in partnership with SeedChange

Topshee Memorial Fund webinar series. African History Month

Celebrating Coady Supporters Dr. Dorothy Lander & Dr. John Graham-Pole

On February 16, Coady Institute hosted a celebration in honor of supporters Dr. Dorothy Lander and Dr. John Graham Pole.

A fitting setting for the celebration, the event took place at Coady’s Marie Michael Library where library specialist Catherine Irving thanked the duo for their most recent donation of $15,000 to enhance the library’s collections of books focusing on climate change such as:

• Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe;

• Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights in Canada and Beyond by Various Indigenous Authors;

• Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice by Chris Saltmarsh;

• Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard, and many more.

Through the Lander Graham-Pole Sustainable Development Fund (previously the Lander GrahamPole Arts Fund), Dorothy and John have supported numerous scholarships for Coady participants with a focus on arts and sustainability, totaling more than $200,000. Additionally, they contribute a portion of proceeds from their social enterprise, HARP Publishing, they are dedicated donors of the Circle of Abundance’s Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program, and they are each active collaborators of learning as guest facilitators in many program classrooms.

Learn more about supporting social change by visiting coady. stfx.ca/support or contacting coady@stfx.ca

COADY GRADUATES in the NEWS

StFX University staff Arlynne McGrath and Coady graduate Nur Istifarini Handayani (Global Change Leaders, 2022) are featured in the David Suzuki Foundation’s Butterflyway Project.

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Cheyenne Henry (Indigenous Women in Community Leadership, 2015) pens a personal story about the Herring Cove lookoff for the CBC Creator Network series. Click for more.

“I love helping immigrants find their voices in Canada”, an interview with Adebola Adefioye (Advancing Women’s Leadership in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding for Community Development, 2020). Click for more.

Abiodun Essiet (Diploma in Development Leadership, 2017) calls for improved funding for healthcare in Nigeria. Click for more.

Did you spot Rhonda Head (Indigenous Women in Community Leadership, 2018) at the Grammys?

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Helena Zefanias and Myriam Vololonarivo of the 2022 Global Change Leaders discuss their work and goals with CBC News. Click for more.