A brief sampling of community engagement:
- United Nations Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review of Canada
Civil Society Representative Spring 2018 - Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services, Income Security Reform Working Group June 2016 to August 2017 producing Income Security: A Roadmap for Change
- United Nations Review of Canada under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Civil Society – Canada Without Poverty delegate April 2017
- 9th Annual OW/ODSPTown Hall: EmCee – June 18th, 2015
- Poverty Reduction Summit – Panelist: Creating Community Will: Engaging Media and Telling Effective Stories, May 7th 2015, Ottawa
- The Economic Leadership and Prosperity of Canadian Women – Witness – May 5th 2014, House of Commons, Standing Committee on the Status of Women, Ottawa
- Coordinator, Presenter and Hosting: Fair Elections Act Community Forum, April 25th, 2014 City Hall Council Chambers, Hamilton
- McMaster Poverty Initiative: Food Insecurity In Our Communities: Panelist – October 22cd 2013
- Hamilton Women’s Leadership Summit: Opening Panelist, Redefining, Redistributing And Revolutionizing Leadership – October 19th, 2013
- Hamilton Women’s Leadership Summit: Workshop Panelist Engaging Politically – October 19th, 2013
- McMaster School of Social Work: Social Change: Advocacy and Social Movements (Course 4J03) – Student Project Mentor
- Poverty and Homelessness, McMaster University: Guest Speaker February 11th 2013
- Hamilton Women’s Leadership Summit: Workshop Facilitator The Unseen Leader – October 20th, 2012
- Anglican Diocese of Niagara, Social Justice Conference: Keynote Speaker and Workshop Leader – October 13th, 2012
- Ontario Project for Inter-clinic Community Organizing Forum: Organizing in an age of Austerity – Panelist: Tools and Strategies on how to organize, Workshop leader: How to engage and support people with lived experience with poverty – June 21st 2012
- Claiming and Enforcing the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living: Panelist – June 7th 2012
- Dundas Association of Churches – Poor No More: Panelist – Apr 26th 2012
- McMaster Poverty Initiative: Analysing the Commissioner’s Interim Report for Social Assistance Reform: Panelist – March 9th 2012
- McMaster Medicine Professional Competencies, Advocacy Awareness: Guest Speaker – October 13th 2011
- Commissioners for the Reform of Social Assistance in Ontario: Forum Co-Moderator – July 4th 2011
She is also a frequent delegate in Hamilton’s City Council Chambers on topics ranging from community services to ward boundary reform.