Halena Seiferling

She/Her

Impact​

Halena was instrumental in running engagement and policy research for the 2018 Hot Pink Paper Campaign. Halena worked with Negin Khaleghi, and worked on WTC's first large research project systemic barriers. The systemic barriers report was written by folks who were paid for their labour. Halena continues to be a great partner in our work.

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Bio​

Halena Seiferling (she/her) is a facilitator, policy analyst, researcher, and writer working in community development and advocacy. Halena is currently Executive Director of Living in Community, a non-profit and charity advocating for the rights and the needs of sex workers across BC and beyond. Halena has also worked in projects advocating for living wages and fair labour standards, electoral reform, civic engagement, and climate justice, and helped research and write the WTC and CRIAW report Action on Systemic Barriers to Women’s Participation in Local Government (2020). Halena holds Bachelors degrees in Sociology and International Development from the University of Regina and a Masters in Public Policy from Simon Fraser University, where her Masters thesis focused on barriers to women running for elected office at the municipal level. Halena is also a dancer and an artist, produces burlesque shows focusing on the intersection of art and politics, and is Board Co-Chair of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition.