Spencer 李丹彤 (they/them/佢keoi5) graduated from Simon Fraser University where they received their ​​master’s in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. They hold a BA in Media & Communications and minored in Sociology and Gender Studies. They have been most active in their communities and the non-profit sector as a youth facilitator and educator, working directly with racialized and queer young people in so-called Vancouver. They are committed to integrating critical pedagogies and anti-oppressive and decolonizing frameworks in creating safer spaces for young people of all backgrounds and identities.With three years of experience in the non-profit sector, they have most recently been working with Roundtable Educational Society to reimagine new models for equitable access to resources for grassroots and equity-denied organizations in Canada. Spencer is passionate about resource and capacity building, trust-based philanthropy, and accessibility in bridging emergent issues for grantee/funder relationships.📍Spencer is a first-generation Han Chinese-Canadian uninvited settler working and living on traditional, unceded, stolen lands of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Stó:lō, and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Peoples. The Coast Salish and Stó:lō Nations have been stewarding the land since time immemorial, and have continued to do so despite ongoing colonial violence.