{"id":925,"date":"2023-04-13T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T22:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.bcafn.ca\/firstnations-approach-gender-based-justice-equity-inclusion-intersectionality\/?page_id=925"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T17:42:28","slug":"meet-the-facilitators","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/events.bcafn.ca\/firstnations-approach-gender-based-justice-equity-inclusion-intersectionality\/meet-the-facilitators\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Co-Creators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chastity Davis-Alphonse, MA\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Chastity Davis-Alphonse is a mixed heritage woman of First Nations and European descent. She is a proud member of the Tla\u2019amin Nation and married into the Tsilhqot\u2019in Nation. Chastity is sole proprietor to her own multi-award-winning consulting business. She has worked with 100+ First Nation communities in BC and several well-known corporations, companies, not-for-profits, and Indigenous organizations. Chastity\u2019s work is completed in the spirit of reconciliation and focuses on building knowledge and capacities for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals, organizations, and communities.<\/p>\n

Chastity\u2019s approach is from an Indigenous women\u2019s lens. She is on the leading edge of Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis (IGBA) in Canada working with the federal and provincial governments, Tsilhqot\u2019in National Government, and several others to weave the Indigenous women\u2019s lens into their daily practices. Chastity is creator and visionary of Deyen \u2013 An Invitation to Transform \u2013 one of the only online learning platforms in the world that centers the voices, knowledge, wisdom, and lived experiences of Indigenous women. The platform launched April 2021 with its signature course titled, \u201cCanadian History Through the Lens of Indigenous Women\u201d \u2013 the only online Cultural Awareness training through the lens of Indigenous women. Since Deyen\u2019s launch, it has reached thousands of people across Canada and has been a transformative learning experience for all who participate in it.<\/p>\n

Chastity has a Master of Arts in Intercultural and International Communications, a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Communication, and a Diploma in Marketing Management & Professional Sales from BCIT. Chastity is also a certified yoga teacher in two modalities: Yin and Kundalini. She weaves the ancient practice and philosophy of yoga into her personal and professional life.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Dr. Natalie Clark, M.S.W., PhD\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Natalie\u2019s work is informed and mobilized through her interconnected identities including her M\u00e9tis and settler kinship; as a parent of three Secw\u00e9pemc children, grandparent and auntie and part of the Secw\u00e9pemc community; an academic; activist and sexual abuse counsellor. The work draws on Natalie\u2019s over 25 years of research and practice in the area of trauma and violence with a focus on healing and resistance to violence and trauma, including the impact of policy and intersecting policies on Indigenous families and communities. In addition to her role as an Associate Professor at Thompson Rivers University in the School of Social Work, Natalie continues to practice including her ongoing work as a violence counsellor, and Indigenous girls group facilitator. Natalie\u2019s work with Indigenous girls\u2019 groups resulted in over 18 Indigenous girls\u2019 groups running in Elementary and Secondary schools within the Secwepemc Nation. Natalie wrote the proposal to the Canadian Women\u2019s Foundation, and this program is nationally recognized. Natalie won a national award from the Ashoka Foundation as a Changemaker: Inspiring Approaches to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Learning, for her work with Indigenous girls\u2019 groups – Clleq\u2019melt: Groups for Aboriginal children and youth in Schools and Community.<\/p>\n

Natalie\u2019s work is grounded in an intergenerational approach, and an Indigenous gender-based and intersectional violence informed practice, that not only recognizes the multi-generational impact of colonization and trauma \u2013 but that also point towards policy solutions that acknowledge sovereignty, build on resistance, and emerge from the strengths within the community and within Indigenous women and girls themselves. Indigenous girls and women are the best guides of determining their own needs in this respect, as they are already engaging in daily acts of understanding, negotiating, and resisting colonial policy. Natalie has authored more than 28 peer reviewed publications on Indigenous intersectionality and GBA+ in women\u2019s and girls\u2019 health research and policy\u037e indigenous girls\u2019 health\u037e and critical trauma theory. Her work is cited nationally and internationally. Natalie\u2019s paper Perseverance, Determination and Resistance: An Indigenous Intersectional Policy Analysis of Violence in the lives of Aboriginal Girls and Women in Intersectional Based Policy Analysis, editor Olena Hankivsky. Natalie\u2019s established reputation in BC\u2019s Indigenous, Metis, and First Nations communities will enable her to support research related to this project.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Dr. Sarah Hunt \/ T\u0142ali\u0142ila\u2019ogwa (she\/they) is a Two-Spirit queer scholar-activist who has spent more than two decades engaged in collaborative work in pursuit of justice for Indigenous people and communities, with a particular focus on ending colonial gender-based violence. As Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Political Ecology at the University of Victoria, Sarah\u2019s research asks what justice feels like across the nested scales of our bodies, homes and waters\/lands. She has published upwards of 40 journal articles, book chapters and reports, with emphasis on centering Indigenous knowledge, laws and norms, particularly through the perspectives of 2SQ gender diverse people, women, and youth. Sarah\/T\u0142ali\u0142ila\u2019ogwa is of Kwakwaka\u2019wakw and Ukrainian\/English settler ancestry.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n