Free, on Zoom Webinar
Join us for a thought-provoking webinar exploring employment equity in hiring for Canadian environmental non-profit leaders.
This session will introduce Nature Canada’s new Employment Equity in Hiring Toolkit, designed to support organizations in building more inclusive and diverse workplaces. The panel conversation will feature the toolkit development team, who will discuss the realities of employment equity in Canada, share insights on current representation trends within the nature sector, and discuss the importance of advancing diversity initiatives to improve access to nature and promote environmental justice. We’ll also ask the toolkit team why they believe employment equity is critical in the context of the environmental sector and how it can lead to positive, lasting change.
Whether you're looking to better understand employment equity or take actionable steps toward a more inclusive organization, this webinar offers valuable insights and practical guidance for environmental leaders.
Our Presenters
Hannah Dean is Organizing Director at Nature Canada. With over a decade of experience in grassroots organizing, coalition-building, and campaign strategy, she has played a key role in mobilizing communities across the country to protect and restore nature. She is passionate about empowering local advocates, designing effective lobbying initiatives, and ensuring that nature remains a top priority for decision-makers. Originally from Ottawa,Hannah has lived and worked in Sweden, Ecuador, and western Canada, gaining a global perspective on environmental issues.
Katy Alambo is the Work to Grow Organizer at Nature Canada where she works to create an inclusive and supportive environment that empowers young BIPOC professionals to thrive in the nature sector. After her studies at the University of Waterloo and the University of Ottawa, Katy worked in environmental consulting, but soon discovered her love for the ENGO sector. Katy brings over five years of experience in nature nonprofits and a decade of navigating the environmental sector as a woman of colour. She is also a strong advocate for mental health and well-being, constantly seeking ways to integrate these values into her work.
Anna-Liza Badaloo (she/her) of Anemochory Consulting is a facilitator, un-learner, and inclusive communicator. Viewing JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) through the lens of empathy, her decolonized, intersectional approach helps organizations build capacity by implementing communities of practice, trainings, and empathy-driven frameworks designed to foster organizational justice. By centering equity-deserving communities, she helps organizations understand how colonial structures impact organizational health.
Andrew Cleland is a civil litigator at Delangie Cleland Limoges s.e.n.c. with over 12 years of experience assisting individuals, communities, and civil society groups with complex legal issues. He has worked with non-profits on strategic advocacy, awareness-raising, and legislative reform in the areas of human rights, employment equity, corporate accountability, and climate change. Andrew previously worked for the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Andrew is bilingual and is licensed to practice law in both Quebec and Ontario.
Session 1: Settler Colonialism 101
Introduce ENGO representatives to the fact that colonization is a structure and not an event. Identifies key ways that colonialism moves through individuals and organizations.
Session 2: Positionality
ENGO representatives learn how to articulate their social location within a settler colonial state, and in relation to potential Indigenous partners.
Session 3: Inherent Indigenous Governance 101
Introduce the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues. Examples provided.
Session 4: Building Better Relations
ENGO representatives will road test ways they can implement previous workshop key points to re-imagine partnerships with Indigenous nations.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
Session 1: Diagnosing Settler Colonialism in the Enviro Sector
Participants will be asked to share ways in which they have diagnosed and traced power in social justice movements and/or in the ENGO sector. This workshop will make space for discomfort as part of promoting decolonization.
Session 2: Inherent Indigenous Governance
A mix of advanced and introductory theory, this workshop delves into legal and political pluralism, naming the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues.
Session 3: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
ENGO participants are introduced to theories and examples describing the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the “Shadow State.” Purpose is to show how settler colonialism structures civil society.
Session 4: Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships
This workshop delves deep into how ENGOs can partner with Indigenous nations beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex while promoting deference to inherent Indigenous political leaders.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
The Indigenous only space will be collaborative in nature but critical in approach. This track is a space for Indigenous folks within the ENGO sector to come together to discuss their experiences and work, with an eye to taking a position on what the sector might need to do in order to promote decolonization. Participants will use the first session to define our goals for the remaining three meetings. Therefore, session topics named here are proposals only.
Session 1: Naming the Cannibal: Settler Colonialism in the ENGO Sector
Session 2: Proposed topic: Reflections on working in the ENGO Sector
Session 3: Proposed topic: Centering Indigenous Thought in the ENGO Sector
Session 4: Proposed topic: Visioning a Decolonial Environmental Sector
Cost: Free
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