Yun-Jou Chang – Program Guide is a writer, facilitator, cultural producer, and arts administrator. Rooted in grassroots organizing, Yun-Jou situates her work at the intersection of art and community and is deeply drawn to language, the stories that we tell, and how they inform our ability to connect with one another, form groups, and build community.
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Sidi Chen – Program Guide is a traveling queer artist whose relational practice addresses the intersectionality of the body, community space, and the land. For the creative process, Chen empathizes the body as a unit of measurement, a vessel of relationships, a repository of experience, and an instrument for creativity. Read More

Kia Kadiri- Program Guide is a respected vocalist and workshop facilitator based in Vancouver. For over 20 years her unique style keeps her in demand as a performer, instructor, and recording artist. Kia teaches lyricism and songwriting in marginalized communities, schools, and institutions. Her interactive workshops combine music theory, improvisation, recording techniques, music production, creative writing, and performance skills. Read More

Chelsey Gooden  – Program Guide

As a Black Canadian woman of Jamaican and Malawian descent and someone living with an invisible (dis)ability, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion + Belonging are not just jobs or career paths for Chelsey they are her life’s passion. Guided by these principles she established Inclusion Sanctuary Consulting. Read More

Nate Gerber  – Program Guide

Nate Gerber (he/they) is the Director of Strategy, Systems, and Design at Voice of Purpose, where he co-pilots initiatives to build leadership and capacity among arts educators, administrators, and executives. Nate’s design perspective is shaped by his artistic pursuits in music composition, kinetic sculpture, and dance choreography. Read More

Jenna Reid – Program Guide

Jenna Reid is the current Artistic Director of Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture. In 2019 Jenna completed her PhD in Critical Disability Studies at York University and has taught and done research at Toronto Metropolitian University, York University, University of Toronto, and McMaster University. Jenna’s research and studio practice focus on artistic production as a site of critical inquiry, community organizing, and political activism. Read More

Meeka Noelle Morgan – Program Advisor

Meeka Noelle Morgan is Secwepemc and Nuu-Chah-Nulth woman from the interior of what is now known as BC and Vancouver Island. She is a singer/songwriter, writer, workshop designer, facilitator, and has developed many Indigenous arts projects, many involving youth. Read More

Phoenix | Sun Park – Program Advisor 

Phoenix a.k.a Sun Park is the Founder of Voice of Purpose. Sun has been a leader in community arts as an artist-educator and organizer since 2005. Phoenix is also the Integration Director and sits on the Board of Directors at Interfusion Festival.Read More

Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra (Sharn) – Program Advisor is a Historian and founder of Belonging Matters Consulting. Sharn worked as Coordinator at the South Asian Studies Institute at UFV for more than 12 years and as co-curator and co-manager of the Sikh Heritage Museum, National Historic Site and Gur Sikh Temple (gurdwara). Her PhD looks at the affective experiences of museum visitors through a critical race theory lens with the dissertation is titled “Museums as Spaces of Belonging: Racialized Power in the Margins.” Sharn is a passionate activist, building bridges between community and academia through museum work.She has been featured in the Knowledge Network series “B.C: An Untold History,” is a published author, and has been featured on local, and international podcasts and media.

Jazmin Hundal – Program Advisor (she/her) is a South Asian woman who lives on the stolen lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples. She currently works as Outreach Coordinator for the BC Museums Association, where she runs the IBPOC Network. Jazmin is passionate about creating support systems for racialized workers in the cultural field. If you would like to get in touch or get involved in the IBPOC Network, please reach out to her at [email protected].  

A Community Connector and Collaborator in the small and big spaces, I’ve facilitated learning, created pathways for looking at leadership with a different lens, and collaborated on community development and engagement projects at various levels of government, non-profits, as well as private organizations. My focus is to listen, have honest and energetic conversations, to collaborate, move to action, and to serve individuals, groups and organizations to collectively build capacity, and find their own voices through collaborative dialogue. I pay attention to the similarities, not the differences, along with placing great emphasis on community building, education, and cultural awareness.

Through my Master’s research work, into various ways that Inclusion, Diversity,Equity, Ant-racism, Accessibility and Action (IDEAAA) policies have impacted civil society; an incredible world of information and learning has opened up, allowing me to look at how we can move – as a Global Community – towards culturally acknowledged practices, and crafting policies that are beneficial to All; not just for those in the safe spaces, but for those who exist in all places.

I’m passionate about preserving Ancestral Stories, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, and the creation of resilient communities. Only together, will Global communities move through the challenges, and find the answers integral to creating societies built on Wellbeing; those of ancestral language and story, cultural awareness and valuation, and the ‘Other” way of being.

Kingsley Strudwick – Program Advisor 

Jazmin Hundal – Past Program Advisor (she/her) is a South Asian woman who lives on the stolen lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples. She currently works as Outreach Coordinator for the BC Museums Association, where she runs the IBPOC Network. Jazmin is passionate about creating support systems for racialized workers in the cultural field. If you would like to get in touch or get involved in the IBPOC Network, please reach out to her at [email protected].