Working For Change
40 Willcocks St M5S 1C6 Toronto, ON, Canada

Working for Change is only 3 (!!) days away - register and attend an AMAZING conference with insightful speakers, social justice careers advice, and more!

Working for Change 2019 is taking place THIS FRIDAY! Come to Wilson Lounge for conversations with amazing panelists working in the non-profit & social justice sector, catering by Coffee Shed and LOFT Kitchen, and integrated career workshops to help you craft your future!

Check out these photos from previous Working for Change conferences! Don't forget to register for this year's event happening THIS FRIDAY November 15th at New College

Happy Monday & welcome back from reading week! Introducing our final panelist for the Migrants, Refugees & Newcomers session (Don't forget to REGISTER for the... WFC Conference this Friday November 15th!! ) HEATHER BERGEN / Vanier Scholar & Coordinating Committee Member, Rights of Non-Status Women’s Network Heather Bergen is a PhD student in social work at York University studying alternatives to the current child protection system. Before that she did community work for a decade in a variety of settings including with refugees and people without immigration status. Heather is a Coordinating Committee Member of the Rights of Non-Status Women Network, a grassroots network committed to educating and supporting frontline workers that work with women without permanent immigration status and advocating for political change at the intersection of gender-based violence and the immigration system. She is the granddaughter of refugees who continues to struggle with what it means that safety in Canada involves participating in ongoing colonization.

Our final panelist introduction for LGBTQI2SA+ Advocacy & Activism! ELVIA MARIA PEÑATE / LGBTQ+ Youth Outreach Worker, reachOUT Griffin Centre Elvia Maria... Peñate identifies as a queer, Latinx community worker. Her educational background is in Social Service Work with a specialization in violence against women and children. She knows personally and professionally the negative effects of discrimination on individuals and communities and the importance of being aware of intersectionality and of working from a place of anti-oppression. Her personal experience and her ten plus years of work experience have shown Elvia Maria the importance of being aware of the many identities we all live and this has led her to work with Queer People of Colour within her communities. See more