Her poetry focuses on issues such as anti-blackness, human rights abuses, gender-based violence, and Islamophobia. The summer of , Roua gave a TEDx talk about intersectionality and accessibility in activism and the subject continues to be her main focus as she believes activism without intersectionality and accessibility is not productive or progressive. Through story telling she hopes to connect with people in order to collectively cope and heal. Fatima is a passionate and enthusiastic second-generation Flipinx-Canadian woman.
She was born in Toronto and moved to up and coming Brampton, Ontario at the age of She studied in Ottawa at Carleton University, having recently earned an undergraduate degree in Public Affairs and Policy Management, specializing in social policy. Fatima spent her undergraduate years volunteering with different groups at Carleton, primarily with the Carleton chapter of Engineers Without Borders Canada.
She largely spent her time working with other youth across Canada to advocate for effective, sustainable international development policies and practices in and out of Canada. Having switched interests from international development to local community organizing and municipal politics, Fatima started volunteering with City for All Women Initiative in and is fortunate to be working as their communications and administration coordinator.
Still unsure about she wants to do with her life, Fatima hopes that she can spend time working to create an equitable and just world. She aims to find and create spaces in which marginalized voices are represented, amplified, and heard. In particular, she is interested in the intersection of mainstream and marginalized communities and finding ways to challenge the status quo. She firmly believes that complacency is unsettling and boring. In her spare time, Fatima spends her time understanding the various ways in which race, gender, class, and age intersect in her life.
She is also attempting to decolonize and focus on indigenizing herself with the Filipinx culture. She completed her undergraduate degree at Carleton University in the Law and Legal Studies program in Her research interests also surround accessibility, employment, criminal justice system responses to mental health, body politics, sexuality, and popular cultural representation of persons with disabilities. She has been actively involved in feminist projects at Carleton from broadening public education on sexual assault by confronting prevalent narratives to raising money for the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre.
Promoting intersectional dialogues on marginalized identities experiences of gender based violence is her current work with the GSA. Previously, she worked as a research student for Planned Parenthood on building much needed sexuality and disability resources in the Ottawa area with the intention of developing peer based support. Next Up provides the opportunity to engage with anti oppressive frameworks and learn best practices from community leaders engaged with social justice projects. Currently, Fa'Ttima is working with on-campus organizations to improve accessibility in mental health for marginalized students while promoting a policy for more inclusive event planning for service centres.
Other social justice projects she engages with include: advocating for intersectional peer support programming; addressing Islamophobia; and providing more diverse narratives for mental health. In her spare time Fa'Ttima enjoys writing poems, reading, running, inline skating, art galleries, and exploring the local progressive arts scene.
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Salaam, Bonjour, and Hello! Sahar is a first generation Muslim Canadian. Sahar's background is in public health, specifically in areas of mental wellness and social trauma. Her current advocacy work focuses on issues of Islamophobia, anti-oppression, decolonization, and reconciliation.
Sahar enjoys practicing Kathak, dancing to her endless playlist of Bollywood music in front of her mirror, and using all of the snapchat filters! Hilary Kirkpatrick is an inner city social worker with a passion for social justice, trauma-informed practice, harm-reduction practice and anti-oppressive practice. She loves to examine societal structures and think creatively about strategies to dismantle them. Hilary loves to learn and collaborate, and she finds great peace in communities of like-minded folks. Hilary loves reading and stretching her brain, being silly with friends and family, cuddling with her crazy dog Juno and crafting up a craft storm.
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She studied postcolonial literature and researched feminine figures and forms of resistance in postcolonial French African literature and film. These studies gave language to and inspired her to expand her work towards social justice. During her studies, Holly had the opportunity to spend one semester in Santiago de Cuba where she researched the Informal Economy and studied Cuban history, community development, agriculture, and coastal management in the community stream of the program. After her undergrad, Holly spent nine months teaching English in rural Quebec.
Holly is passionate about building and contributing to vibrant communities. She is invested in seeing the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities in all facets of society, but especially in communities of faith. She is dedicated to anti-colonial and anti-oppressive practices and is learning what it looks like to practice allyship on a daily basis. Holly spends her time with her partner and two pets, trying to get into medical school, and volunteering on a local distress line.
She enjoys coffee, board games, roller derby, books, travel and time spent in nature.
She is on a journey of unlearning and is always looking for ways to engage in community. I am in Edmonton Cohort 8! She has a Master of Laws at the University of Ottawa where her graduate research focused on governance and access to justice issues in Nunavut.
In addition, she is the frontwoman for the Ottawa-based indie dream pop band Scary Bear Soundtrack. Born and raised in Ottawa in an Ethiopian family, he maintains a strong relationship with the Ottawa-Ethiopian community. He is Co-President of the Ethiopian Orthodox youth group and enjoys ethical discussions on the current and future use of technology. Abeal spent a significant portion of his life working within a family-run convenience store where he developed the ability to communicate and understand the needs of the different demographics of the community.
He joined the Next Up Ottawa to learn how to work within a social justice framework and better understand the social issues faced in the province. Along side his passion for social justice, he is in the process of attaining his personal training certification to help individuals maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
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Laura has lived and worked across Canada, including the high Arctic community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, where she created Nunavut-specific digital media education resources. Her master's thesis used community based research to explore social media and Indigenous economies.
These experiences inform her current work as Communications Coordinator at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canada's national Inuit representational organization. Laura's passion for progressive politics was inherited from her grandmother and developed through her experiences as a white settler ally. Her feminism is based on a practice of cultivating strong relationships that act as a foundation for accountability and transformative justice work in her community.
Laura spent high school choreographing intricate, angry ballets and loves nothing more than swimming in a lake. She believes in the nourishing power of land, food, and people. Sinda is an African-Arab immigrant, born and raised in Tunisia, who came to Canada in She has been a part of the transnational network Afrique-Europe Interact advocating against borders, visa regimes, and providing support for migrants and refugees in different countries in South Europe and North Africa. Zaya is a first generation Congolese-Canadian settler. He and his family have migrated across 3 continents, making roots in Toronto and Montreal respectively.
Prior, he was a parliamentarian staff with the Senate of Canada. Throughout the course of his life, he has focused his advocacy on marginalized youth, anti-poverty initiatives and more recently the intersection between mental health and community-development.
A long distance runner, Zaya once joined a team that ran from coast-to-coast across Canada to raise awareness and fundraise on behalf of child poverty. Zaya can be found perusing record stores and used bookstores, he maintains that he is a wine snob and will find any excuse to dance. Moving to Ottawa almost a decade ago from Barrie Ontario, Natasha is currently finishing a degree at Carleton University. Her past employment includes positions at the National Association of Friendship Centres where she was tasked with annual reports on the state of the Indigenous Friendship Centre movement, as well as working at the Assembly of First Nations.
Future goals involve continued work with Indigenous Groups, learning more of her Ojibwe language and heritage, and asking the perennial 'should I have another coffee? Sudesh was born and raised in Bhutanese Refugee Camp in Nepal. He lived at the refugee camp for 16 years of his life. He represents Nepali speaking Southern Bhutanese culture. He immigrated to Canada in , and currently he is enrolled in his second year of social service work at Algonquin college. He engages newcomer youths and educates on the importance of preserving cultural identity in order to integrate in a diverse community.
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He uses his personal life experiences to motivate other youths and educate people with his perspective. His career goal is to dedicate his work to serving refugee populations in different countries and helping newcomers to integrate. Amber has an infectious smile, compassionate, humbling persona with a fierce, independent, bold attitude that leads her in her pursuit for social and economic justice and activism. Being raised in a rural, fruit farm community just outside of Hamilton, Ontario has given her this small town, city girl outlook on life.
Hamilton, the Steel City will always be her home as steel, labour and activism has been passed down through generations of Steel working family members. She was raised by a single mom and has 4 brothers, 1 sister and her family continues to grow with nieces and nephews, whom she adores.
She is always surrounding herself with strong womyn - from her mother, to her Master's supervisor an amazing Marxist, feminist role model, to her inspiring fembot comrades, to now learning and embracing many unreal political opportunities with MP Niki Ashton and the Bernie Bus. Amber's main social and economic interests include: women and work; labour rights; youth and gender justice; ending sexual violence against womyn and creating a more accessible, equitable criminal justice system; decolonizing our education system and integrating feminist, Marxist, antiracism, voices and history into the Ontario curriculum; implementing basic income to abolish poverty; and eradicating capitalism with the development of socialism for the working class.
When she is not researching, writing, or reading she is playing volleyball, eating and making pizza, trying new wines, painting, facetiming with family and friends back home, snapchatting or netflixing. Amber moved to Ottawa to complete her second Master's degree and in this time she has struggled to build a solid social justice network and connect to the community, but through NextUp she has been able to find solidarity with the activists in this network and is hopeful for the continued connections and activism to come with the numerous NextUpers.
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Joy Wall is a born and raised Calgarian with a passion for connection, education, and social justice. Joy has a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Lethbridge, where she was involved in various clubs, child development, and literacy programs. Currently, Joy is working as a child development specialist, supporting children under 5 with disabilities.
Previously she worked with an organization which supports families after the death of a loved one. Joy has a strong passion for connecting with people and learning how people connect to one another. This passion comes together in opportunities to travel which Joy takes as every opportunity.
Joy feels strongly about storytelling being an important medium for discourse, and is involved in the storytelling and comedy communities. She has a strong interest in learning how to use comedy to connect individuals to social issues, ideas, and movements. In the future Joy hopes to travel across the world, forming connections, and learning from everyone she meets.
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