IWW Spotlight: Jaime Smith
Jaime Smith Director of Social InnovationCentre for Employment Innovation, Coady Institute, StFX University Jaime Smith is a passionate activist for gender and race equality. As the Director of Social Innovation and Executive Lead for Employment Innovation at Coady,...
IWW Spotlight: Ulilia Chamisa
Ulilia Chamisa Team Leader, Start4Girls, CARE ZImbabweWomen’s Leadership in Community Leadership, 2021 As the Team Leader for Start4Girls in Zimbabwe, Ulilia Chamisa works with girls and adolescent women, their communities, and religious and traditional leaders...
IWW Spotlight: Mica Francis
Mica Francis Women’s Support Worker, Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services (AWRCSASA)YIP Intern (1999) In 1999, Mica Francis graduated from StFX University at the top of her class with a BA in Human Kinetics, with an advanced major in Women...
IWW Spotlight: Tsigie Haile
Tsigie Haile Executive Director, Organization for Women in Self Employment (WISE)Asset-Based Community Development (2015) / ENGAGE partner In 1993, Tsigie Haile established WISE – which stands for Women in Self Employment. WISE provides a space for women’s...
IWW Spotlight: Hannah Chisholm
Hanna Chisholm CEO/Founder, EggcitablesWallace Family Internship (2017) With a passion for food, sustainability and entrepreneurship Hannah Chisholm created and launched Eggcitables. Eggcitables’ flagship product is a chickpea alternative to eggs. All products...
IWW Spotlight: Denise McLeod
Denise McLeod Professor, Community Organizer, ArtistIndigenous Women in Community Leadership, 2019 As part of the last generation of the ‘Sixties Scoop’, Denise, who is originally from Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation, was raised in the north-west of Toronto by a...
$14.8 Million announced for ‘Rural Women Cultivating Change’
Tuesday, March 8 – International Women’s Day – Global Affairs Canada announced a $67.5 million investment “for projects putting gender equality at heart of climate action”. The investment includes $14.8 million for Rural Women Cultivating...IWW Spotlight: Eileen Alma
Eileen Alma Director, International Centre for Women’s Leadership, Coady Institute As Director of the International Centre for Women’s Leadership at Coady Institute, Eileen Alma focuses on advancing the leadership of persons identifying as women in political,...