Florence Li
She/Her
Florence is an educator with a background in grassroots organizing and anti-racist advocacy. A former college teacher with experience in both academic and community settings, she strives to cultivate safer spaces that allow for curiosity and critical thinking to thrive. Growing up as a racialized immigrant settler in “Toronto,” she instinctively became apprehensive around teachers and in classrooms. She has since found herself drawn to places of learning, wanting to be the supportive guide she needed in order to speak loudly and to ask questions.
Through collective unlearning, building civic literacy and knowledge sharing through WTC, she hopes for participants and members to imagine beyond what they believed to be possible, to speak loudly if they wish and to incite systemic change. Outside of work, she is often exploring playgrounds and green spaces with her family, constantly contemplating her next meal and is usually reading five books at any given moment. Florence is a guest on the traditional, ancestral, stolen and unceded lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.