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Ilhan is a Somali-Canadian whose parents鈥� migration journey brought her to these unceded Coast Salish Lands at a very young age. Stemming from her family鈥檚 experience of being racialized newcomers, Ilhan has been passionate in addressing social and health inequities and developed a commitment to social justice. Having spent some time in community activism, youth work and health promotion in the Lower Mainlands of Vancouver, Ilhan then moved to Toronto to pursue her Masters in Public Health and gain a critical intersectional analysis on what promotes vulnerability to health inequities. She has recently returned to BC and is ecstatic to get involved in health equity and community work. When she鈥檚 not working, you can find her embarking on solo travels somewhere in the world.

Alia is a social entrepreneur and lecturer at 麻豆视频 where she teaches Sustainable Innovation and Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Passionate about the fields of sustainability, poverty alleviation and impact investing, Alia is the Founder of Luv The Grub an emerging social enterprise that operates at a number of levels in the food system by capturing produce seconds that would otherwise go to waste, hires newcomer refugees and immigrants through a paid employment training program and produces delicious chutneys and spreads for the local market. In addition, Alia is also the Co-Founder of Liv & Lola; a fair trade home decor business which works with artisans in rural areas of Nicaragua, Guatemala and Thailand where employment opportunities are scarce in an effort to lift them, their families and their communities out of poverty.

Halah is a graduate student in clinical counselling with a keen interest in the biopsychosocial and spiritual aspects of addiction and recovery. She鈥檚 spent the past few years in the biotech startup world as well as working in her communities to lower barriers to epistemologically relevant mental health care. 

Halah is grateful to live on the territories of the x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m, S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh, and s蓹l虛ilw蓹ta蓙涩 / sel虛铆l虛witulh nations. Halah always makes time to read, cultivate her love of languages and be near the ocean.

Gaaysiigad h铆n uu d铆i kya鈥櫭ng, ga y谩alaast g煤ust uu d铆i k鈥檞谩alaagang, d铆i gwaayk鈥檃ang hlk鈥檡谩an 帽鈥檜st鈥櫭n uu 铆ijang. 

I grew up in the sands of Brunette Creek in New Westminster, where I learned to skip stones, catch fish, and tread lightly on unceded land of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Qayqayt, sc虛蓹wa胃ena蓙涩 t蓹m蓹x史, s蓹l虛ilw蓹ta蓙涩 t蓹m蓹x史, S鈥櫭砽h T茅m茅xw, Stz鈥檜minus, and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m. The creek bed and city have been a connecting place for thousands of years, and I work to feel a part of those connections.

Those connections have been best felt when organizing in community around sense of place, isolation, language preservation, heritage reform, and Indigenous sovereignty. These connections have also woven themselves into roles and opportunities: as Curator and Co-Founder of Kudoz, Director of Organize BC, and Director of Populous Map.

I learned to use my Masters of Anthropology to document these connections, but I honour and evaluate them by sinking back into the creek鈥檚 soft sand. Reciprocity in community and home are what I innovate for.