On May 27th, 2020 the Collective for Gender+ in Research hosted an online teach-in to consider and discuss gender+ considerations during COVID-19. Speakers attended to the different ways COVID-19 impacts and is impacted by gender and intersections of sexuality, income, race, Indigeneity, and numerous other important facets of identity and inclusion.
The teach-in was hosted by Nora Angeles (UBC), with speakers: Kim van der Woerd (Reciprocal Consulting; SFU); Julia Smith (SFU); Katherine Scott (CCPA); Tim Agg (Qmunity); and Ellen Woodsworth (Women Transforming Cities).
The full webinar recording is available here on our YouTube channel here.
Moderator / Host:
Leonora (Nora) C Angeles is Associate Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Program at the University of British Columbia. She is currently the Graduate Program Advisor of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also faculty research associate at the UBC Centre for Human Settlements where she has been involved in a number of applied research and capacity-building research projects in Brazil, Vietnam and Southeast Asian countries. Her continuing research and interests are on community and international development studies and social policy, participatory planning and governance, participatory action research, and the politics of transnational feminist networks, women’s movements and agrarian issues, particularly in the Southeast Asian region.
Speakers:
Julia Smith is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Her research centres around the social, political and commercial determinants of health. She holds a PhD, from the University of Bradford in the UK, and has 15+ years experience working with health and development projects in Canada, Africa and Europe.
Kim van der Woerd is a member of the ‘Namgis First Nation from Alert Bay, BC. Kim is the owner of Reciprocal Consulting, an Indigenous consulting firm specializing in program evaluation and research. She has over 20 years of experience conducting local, provincial and national program evaluations managing over 200 projects. Kim completed her PhD in Psychology at Simon Fraser University. Her dissertation was the recipient of the Michael Scriven Dissertation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evaluation Theory, Methodology or Practice, 2007. Kim also received the Canadian Evaluation Society Contributions to Evaluation in Canada 2014 Award for her mentorship of Indigenous students. More recently, Kim was awarded the 2018 BC Community Achievement Award, and the 2018 Mitchell Award through the BC Achievement Foundation; as well as the Indigenous Business Award 2018 for businesses with 3-10 people. Kim and her team at Reciprocal Consulting are passionate about social justice, and culturally responsive research and evaluation. Kim has also been active in her community serving on many boards locally and nationally.
Katherine Scott is a Senior Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and serves as the director for the CCPA’s gender equality and public policy work. She has worked in the community sector as a researcher, writer and advocate over the past 25 years, writing on a range of issues from social policy to inequality to funding for nonprofits.
Ellen Woodsworth is an international speaker on urban issues using a gendered intersectional lens. She is the Founder and Co-Chair of Women Transforming Cities International Society (WTC) www.womentransformingcities.org and a former Vancouver City Councillor. Ellen acted as a consultant and keynote speaker for the NDI Iraq project Her Story; she was a speaker for the BMW Foundation Female Leadership in Resilient Cities, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the RailVolution International Conference, and Feminists Deliver. Ellen is a member of the national committee “Advancing Equity and Inclusion: A Guide for Municipalities” and she coordinates the WTC “Hot Pink Paper Municipal Campaign” to create women friendly cities, in addition to multiple other speaking and facilitating activities internationally. More recently, Ellen has become a strong advocate for a feminist COVID-19 recovery strategy and budget.
Tim Agg is the current Interim Executive Director of Qmunity, a non-profit organization based in Vancouver, BC that works to improve queer, trans, and Two-Spirit lives. Tim was the Executive Director at PLEA Community Services Society for over 30 years, retiring in 2016. Two years later, he was appointed by the Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction to facilitate the Re-Imagining Community Inclusion initiative, a stakeholder engagement process which created a ten-year road map for the development of supports and services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in BC. He was a board member of the former BC Human Rights Coalition, among other voluntary roles.
