This is about changing how things work in this world; it’s a systemic change.

Olga Cruz

Senior Associate, Good & Well

Nivatha Balendra completed the yearlong Pathy Foundation Fellowship in 2022. Her initiative, Impact Framework for CleanTech Community in Canada focused on developing an impact arm for her startup, Dispersa.

…this included proposing a regulatory framework that would encourage the adoption of clean technologies such as Dispersa’s bio-ingredient technology. Such a framework would help distinguish greenwashing from real sustainable solutions. This impact arm would also address social impact by creating community-based initiatives to help bridge the gap in underrepresented groups within the CleanTech sector.

Nivantha recently spoke with Forbes about closing a $3-million funding round led by the support of Invest Nova Scotia.

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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