I love people. You'll always find me learning people’s stories, passions, and skills and then building them platforms for their creativity and goals.I love storytelling. Creating narratives that get people fired up, and help them understand complexities through simplification and artistry.I love problem solving. Helping people connect to resources and being a sounding board when they need an assist to thrive in their rolesSkills:- Mentoring and Coaching* Mentored dozens of volunteers at different points in their leadership development to become independent and well-equipped team leaders in their own right. * Focused on mentoring women who are often overlooked in organizations.* Developed training curriculum for community group leaders.* Coached a team of over twenty volunteer community group leaders in troubleshooting group dynamics, accessing social assistance and mental health resources and developing new leaders. - Goal Setting and Strategy* I build systems from scratch, getting ideas from existing paradigms and adapting and innovating for the context I am in. * Four years ago I created the volunteer-led community group program, which now has 10 groups across the city of Toronto and serves intergenerational and socio-economically diverse populations. * I am adaptable and create adaptable teams, for example, when the pandemic hit Toronto my team of community group leaders independently pivoted to online gatherings and organizing grocery assistance within their groups. I then gathered their on-the-ground learning, shared it across the groups and offered them resources and solutions for challenges they identified. - Communication* In my organization I am known for being the person who starts the needed hard conversation and who is not afraid to admit failure and learn from it. * I consistently advocate for the marginalized in meetings and in the way I build teams. This past month I developed an assessment tool for directors to use to assess themselves and their programs in order to identify the systemic racist barriers in our structures and develop sustainable anti-racism action plans.