Accelerating Action on Gender Equity

 In honour of March 8th, we’re diving into the history and significance of International Women's Day. Join us as we examine the evolution of feminism, learn ways to address unconscious bias, and explore how to become active allies in advancing gender equity.

This workshop will explore:

• The roots of International Women’s Day
• The landscape of current challenges women face
• Strategies on how to take action to advance gender equity.

Workshop Leads: 

Alexa Traboulay (she/her) is the Manager of Community at Women Transforming Cities. Alexa is a passionate researcher and community organizer who writes to inform policy and social change. She holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago (UC), with a concentration in political science, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia, where she completed the Honours Political Science Program and a minor in Law & Society. Her academic research explores the impacts of political polarization and online disinformation on racialized communities in the United States. Recognized for her ability to bridge research with advocacy, she was the recipient of the UC Quadrangle Research Scholarship and was an affiliate of the Chicago Center on Democracy. A second-generation immigrant with Trinidadian and Hungarian ancestry, Alexa is a settler on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. 

Florence Li (she/her) is the Education Coordinator at WTC. She has a strong background in both grassroots organizing and anti-racist advocacy. A former college teacher with experience in both academic and community settings, she strives to cultivate safer spaces that allow for curiosity and critical thinking to thrive. Growing up as a racialized immigrant settler in “Toronto,” she instinctively became apprehensive around teachers and in classrooms. She has since found herself drawn to places of learning, wanting to be the supportive guide she needed in order to speak loudly and to ask questions.

Women Transforming Cities (WTC) aims to radically shift social, economic, and political power to equity-deserving groups to reshape who cities are built by and for so that communities’ needs are met and everyone can belong, participate, and thrive. We do this with an intersectional feminist lens through civic literacy and education, research, advocacy and collaboration. 

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Accessibility: The event will take place virtually on Zoom. It will be in English with live closed captioning. If you have any other requests that will support your participation, please let us know by emailing us at alexa@womentransformingcities.org.

We acknowledge that the event will take place virtually on the stolen, unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).