Fran de la Luna, Building Caring Communities: Inclusion is not simply just an attitude, it really is about work.
Fran de la Luna, Building Caring Communities: Inclusion is not simply just an attitude, it really is about work.
David Schein, Food Stash Foundation: I was shocked that 50% of the waste in Canada is happening in the home.
Elaine Leung, Sea Smart: It never actually occurred to me to be a marine biologist, because it’s one of those dream jobs that doesn’t really exist, right?
Shea Emry, Wellmen: The façade is hyper-masculine because you don’t want to create more barriers if you’re trying to break the barriers down.
Tesicca Truong, CityHive: I think we do a disservice to children and youth when we don’t believe that they are competent and able people who are ready to contribute to our society.
Amber Anderson, H.A.V.E. Culinary Training Society: You shouldn’t teach everyone one way. You should teach how they need to learn.
Brett Trainor, Mountain Mentors: To see a woman in a position of power excelling in backcountry skiing or snowboarding or mountain biking is super inspiring.
Kyle Empringham, The Starfish Canada: Environmentalism is often a doom and gloom situation that we face and a lot of people are feeling inspired to do something but also feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders.
Taylor Roades, Photographer: I am participating pretty actively with other cultures. I’ve seen so many other traditions and especially when it’s a new tradition, I definitely ask questions.
Denise Brennan, Creative Coworkers: This space is in a very tricky, challenging, wonderful, diverse, odd-ball neighbourhood that requires a lot of cultural and social sensitivity.
Naitik Mehta, Nextbillion.org: I’m really passionate about combining technology with social impact.
Gabriel Hall, Vancouver Mural Festival: How can we empower the people who live in this city to take charge of the culture and to feel like we can do totally awesome rad stuff here?
Elaine Cheng, Food Connections: I don’t like to preach to the converted. I like to preach to the person who’s never thought about it in a relevant way.
Ashleigh Turner, Options for Sexual Health and NetSquared Vancouver: When I started looking at the rest of the nonprofit world, I see those people doing the same thing in their organizations. I see that there are people who are making the changes in the world that I want to see made. That’s really what drives me forward.
David Barnett, Music Heals: There’s a lot of people out there trying to spread the love and all we’re trying to do is help fund it.