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Beck Power

Entrepreneur, Speaker | AFS Media, QueerHustle, Power Creative Media

Conferences, queer women entrepreneurship, speaking, public speaking, social media, personal brands, sales funnels

Dr. Kimberley Brownlee

Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy | University of British Columbia

social human rights, social deprivation, loneliness, belonging, civil disobedience, COVID-19 - isolation, quarantine, connection with others

Dr. Inês Lopes

Psychologist | Environmental and social justice education

eco-anxiety, eco-psychology, environment, education, psychology, social justice, environmental education, impacts of climate change on health, cyberviolence, online hate, online toxicity, online bullying

Dr. Carolyn Harris

Historian, Author, Royal Commentator, Instructor, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies | www.royalhistorian.com

Author of Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada,Queenship &Revolution in Early Modern Europe and Raising Royalty:1000 Years of Royal Parenting

Dr. Selena Rathwell

Educator | Canadian Center for Women's Empowerment

international education; inclusive education; intersectionality; Indigenous ways of knowing in education; race, ability and socio-economic states; gender-based violence; economic abuse; feminism; disability; social justice; literature