In partnership with Pan Canadian Voice for Women’s housing, join us for a webinar that explores practical tools for housing advocacy.
Canada's housing crisis isn't one crisis; it's many. Gender-based discrimination creates disproportionate barriers to safe housing for women and gender-diverse people, especially those who are Indigenous, Black, racialized, disabled, and LGBTQ2S+. But our experiences get obscured or hidden altogether in the data. If you have lived experience as a woman or gender-diverse person who experienced precarious housing - or are someone who works to organize those who have – these stories have power to change that. Join this webinar to learn how a free self-paced tool helps you turn experience into impactful story, build advocacy skills, and organize others to demand action.
Workshop Lead: Andrea Reimer is the founder of Tawâw Strategies and teaches power literacy at UBC and SFU. A former school trustee and city councillor, and a long-time community organizer, she's spent decades translating bold ideas into policy change on issues like climate, housing, and reconciliation. She hosts the She.They.Us. podcast and recently won the BC Non-Profit Housing Association's Affordable Housing Champion award.
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Speakers:
Sophia Kelly-Langer is the Education and Training Manager at the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa, where she leads the development of educational offerings, including the Empathy Project. Her work focuses on ethical engagement and meaningful inclusion of people with lived experience in policy, programming, and systems reform. Sophia also serves on the board of the Centretown Citizens of Ottawa Corporation, a community nonprofit providing affordable housing.
Heather Hanninen Fairbairn (she/they) is a disabled, non binary person working at the intersections of poverty, disability, housing, and women’s and gender diverse people’s issues. Heather was born in and after much travel, working and studying abroad, returned toEdmonton. She holds a master's degree in urban planning from Dalhousie, with her thesis focus on housing for women in crisis. She has been, and remains, precariously housed, her beloved 1952 townhouse having been involved in a fire. She has been in a very expensive apartment for the past year and is facing a large rent increase, so she is looking to move again. Heather is grateful to be a part of PCVWH’s Advisory Council, and to have worked along with these amazing women and gender diverse humans. She was privileged to be a part of the She*They*Us: Making Room in Housing podcast. In her spare time, she admins several Facebook groups, reads, corresponds with friends around the world in handwritten letters, tends to her little free library, listens to music, and gives hearty belly rubs to her two much adored cats, Stormy and Blue.
Lori Deets is Métis-Cree born in northern Saskatchewan. Being a 60's Scoop relocated to southern Saskatchewan, Lori now calls Moose Jaw home. Lori is a student at First Nations University of Canada and will recently be finished her Indigenous Communications Arts Diploma, where she has gained experience with print journalism, radio and podcasting. Lori is also passionate about social justice, decolonization and anti-racism. She enjoys finding various artistic ways to inform and educate in these areas.