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Meet the 2024 Coady Summer Interns
An invaluable part of the team at Coady Institute are the student interns who dedicate their summer months to learning, leading, and supporting the work of the Institute. This year we have four students employed across various projects and teams including the Centre for Employment Innovation (CEI), Circle of Abundance, Education Programs, and Marketing and Communications.
National Indigenous People’s Day 2024: Uplifting Indigenous Women Leaders through Mentorship
For many generations, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people have celebrated their culture and heritage on the summer solstice – the longest day of the year. We join in celebrating the diverse cultures of Indigenous people across Turtle Island with the intentions of solidarity, community, kinship, and reconciliation.
Today, we highlight some of the invaluable Mentors for the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership (IWCL) program.
ENGAGE: Increasing women’s participation in Haiti with Assuntha Fleurant (CLE)
Assuntha Fleurant of le Centre Haitien du Leadership et de l’Excellence (CLE) says Engage has been “one of the best experiences” and that witnessing the accomplishments of women through the program has been “inspiring.”
StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’
StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaw people. The Mi’kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’