Anna Murphy

Anna Murphy is a woman fiercely passionate to call the communities of Calgary her home. She is a community-minded and engaged advocate for 2SLGBTQIA+ and women’s issues, while striving to be a champion for equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility within her community. In addition to her role as Visitor Engagement and Volunteer Coordinator with Contemporary Calgary, Murphy has the profound honour and remarkable privilege of serving a city of trailblazers in a voluntary capacity as a University of Calgary Senator, Chair of the Senate EDI Working Group, Member of the O’Brien Institute of Public Health, Vice-Chair of the Gender Equity Diversity Inclusion Subcommittee of the City of Calgary Social Wellbeing Advisory Committee, Member of the Council Behaviour Working Group, Member of the Community Connections Subcommittee of the Calgary Stampede Agriculture and Western Events Committee, Member of the Calgary Foundation SAM Centre Community Advisory, and Member of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs National 2SLGBTQIA+ Advisory Council. Murphy was named the 2022 Calgary Stampede Western Trailblazer for her community activism related towards 2SLGBTQIA+ issues, as well being the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal in recognition of her ongoing volunteerism and significant contributions to the province of Alberta. Committed to giving her time to inspire even the smallest of change, Murphy gives back in an effort to foster safe and affirming communities where all can see themselves and know their future as being an achievable reality - further, Murphy recognizes that community building requires active and ongoing involvement, leading from her lived experience as a transgender woman who continues to navigate the realities which come from adversity and barriers created as a result of ongoing cultural and systemic inequity, along with lack of representation.