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IWW Spotlight: Tsigie Haile

Tsigie Haile established Women in Self Employment (WISE) in 1993, which provides a space for women’s empowerment in Ethiopia. The organization has been working with low-income, self-employed women and girls in their efforts to achieve self-reliance and improve the quality of their lives.

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IWW Spotlight: Hannah Chisholm

With a passion for food, sustainability and entrepreneurship Hannah Chisholm created and launched Eggcitables. Eggcitables’ flagship product is a chickpea alternative to eggs.

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IWW Spotlight: Denise McLeod

Denise proudly defines herself as an urban Indigenous Indigi-Queer woman, and is interested in the reclamation of language, culture and ceremony as that has been a large part of her healing.

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IWW Spotlight: Eileen Alma

As the 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, economic, social and legal spaces, key to addressing poverty and inequalities both locally and globally.

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IWW Spotlight: Sylvia Parris-Drummond

As CEO of the Delmore ‘Buddy’ Daye Learning Institute, Sylvia Paris-Drummond helps improve the education environment for African Nova Scotian learners and educators.

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Engage Learning Forum (2022)

A key component of the Engage program is the priority placed on creating a co-learning environment whereby the partner organizations have ongoing opportunities to share their expertise, learn from each other, and collectively explore new ideas, techniques and tools. The annual Learning Forum is one of the venues for this collaborative learning process.

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