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Tereska Gesing

CEO | Urban Seedling

Urban Agriculture, Biodiversity, Vegetable Gardening, School Garden, Edible School Yard, Edible Landscaping, Food Systems

Carolyn Thomas

Author, speaker, blogger | Heart Sisters

Carolyn Thomas is the author of "A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease" (Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2017). She writes and speaks on women and the patient experience of living with a chronic and progressive illness. Her blog HEART SISTERS has attracted over 14 million views from 190 countries.

Raylene Whitford

Director | Canative Energy Ltd, INDIGI-X.com

Finance, international finance, social development, oil and gas, energy sector, economic development of Indigenous communities, accounting

Elizabeth Wall-Wieler

Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford University

Epidemiology, Foster Care, Women’s Mental Health, Early Pregnancy Loss, Administrative Data

Kharoll-Ann Souffrant, M.S.S/M.S.W

Ph.D. student in Social Work and Vanier scholar, 2020 United Nations Fellow for People of African Descent | University of Ottawa

Sexual violence against women, Feminist movements, Black feminism, Afrofeminism, Intersectionality, Race and Gender, Social responses to sexual violence disclosures, Mental Health, Human Rights of People of African Descent, Hashtag Activism, Online social movements.