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Type: Non-fiction
Moderator: Alison Tedford Seaweed
Readers: Jennifer Corriero, Karen Bird, Flourish: A Workbook for Social Innovators (TakingITGlobal)
About The Moderator
Alison Tedford is an author and business consultant from Abbotsford, BC. Her career has centered around diversity, equity, inclusion and creating social impact. She’s a member of Kwakiutl First Nation, a mom and woman with a disability. Alison spent over a decade working on Indigenous inclusion issues in the Canadian federal government and has been a full time entrepreneur for six years.
About The Readers
Jennifer Corriero is a social innovator with a passion for supporting young people in bringing their ideas to life through community based projects. She co-founded TakingITGlobal in 1999 and is dedicated to supporting youth across Canada and around the world through co-designing and delivering programs that leverage the power of their voices, creativity and technology for impact.
Karen is a proud member of Batchewana First Nation near Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. She has over 24 years of finance industry experience across several different sector focused primarily in lending and investments. Karen has facilitated countless financial literacy workshops over her career for many people, focusing on youth. Karen is the 2019 Athena Leadership Award, the first Indigenous woman in SSM to be awarded this honour. She also is a certified Facilitator for the Athena Leadership Model - the first Indigenous Facilitator from Canada. She sits on the board for Taking IT Global and the Sault Ste Marie Chamber of Commerce. Karen carries many anishnaabe teachings, is a jingle dress dancer, mother of four and step mother to three more. In April of 2023, Nakehndan - Knowing Your Truth, a non profit was incorporated and launched by Karen. Nakehndan is deep in its building phase and when operational, will support sexual assault survivors and their families heal as a unit infusing traditional anishnaabe culture into all services. This organization is a more than decade old dream come to life.
