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,...
IWW Spotlight: Sylvia Parris-Drummond
Sylvia Parris-Drummond CEO, Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning InstituteCitizen-Led Accountability: Strategies and Practices (CLASP), 2021 As CEO of the Delmore ‘Buddy’ Daye Learning Institute, Sylvia Paris-Drummond helps improve the education environment for...
We Stand with Ukraine: Reflections from Coady staff, Robin Neustaeter
Friday, March 4 StFX University and the Town of Antigonish raised the Ukrainian flag in a virtual ceremony titled, We Stand with Ukraine. Dr. Robin Neustaeter, who leads Coady Institute’s work in peacebuilding and conflict transformation, gave moving remarks...International Women’s Week 2022
“International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. IWD has occurred for well over a century,...