On Friday, June 30, fifty-eight social change leaders from countries around the world celebrated their graduation from one of three on-campus certificate programs:  Feminist Advocacy for Agency, Equity, and Justice, Livelihoods and Markets, and Community Led Solutions for Climate Change.

Participants travelled from their homes in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon,  Canada,  Ethiopia, Ghana,  Haiti,  India,  Kenya,  Liberia, Mali,  Nepal,  Nigeria,  Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to learn new tools, share their experiences and knowledge, and develop their skills for social change.

Participants celebrated the end of their programs with a peer-to-peer presentation of certificates – as well as dancing, theatre, and snacks!

Congratulations to the new graduates and welcome to the Coady Graduate Network!

St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

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