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Sharlene Massie

Visionary and Founder | About Staffing & JOBSHIFT

small business, leadership, entrepreneurship, hiring process, unemployment, workplace, work, job market, jobs, staffing, employment

Shelley Clark

Director, Centre on Population Dynamics, Professor of Sociology | McGill University

Social demography, Family dynamics, Child well-being, HIV/AIDS, Adolescent transitions in rural America

Dr. Fiona MacDonald

Assistant Professor | University of Northern British Columbia

Alt-Right, Masculinity, Medical errors, Medical mistreatment, Healthcare, Feminism, Feminist social movements, Gender, Neoliberalism, Allyship, Toxic Masculinity, Rape Culture

Andrea Stairs

General Manager | eBay Canada & Latin America

Andrea Stairs leads the Canadian strategy and operations of one of the world’s largest online marketplaces.

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Elizabeth Sheehy

Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law | University of Ottawa

Violence against women, Sexual assault, Battered women, Women who kill, Criminal law and procedure, Law reform