I’m a finalist for the 2025 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Award by the Women’s Nonprofit Network!

This is definitely a daily yay - an absolute joy to be named as a finalist for the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging award by the Women’s Nonprofit Network and presented by GreenShield! 🥹

After 11+ years in the nonprofit sector at MonstrARTIty and #BollywoodMonster Mashup, and now in my second career as an invisible disability speaker and an Ambassador for the Invisible Disabilities Association and the Rick Hansen Foundation School Program, it feels so special to have my work recognized. Especially alongside leaders like my fellow finalists!

The Women’s Nonprofit Network Awards winners will be announced on Oct 21 - wish me luck! 🙏🏽🎉✨

Building Inclusion Through Empathy - Canadian SME Small Business Magazine

A 2017 “Disabilities & Inclusion” study by Coqual showed that of the 30% of the professional workforce with a disability, only 39% had disclosed to their manager, 34% to their teams, and 31% to HR. 

That same study also found that employees who disclosed their disabilities to most people they interacted with, were over TWICE as likely to feel regularly happy or content at work, compared to those who disclosed to no one.

After hiding my muscle disability at my nonprofit arts/events job from everyone but my director and one other colleague for 10+ years, I can definitely speak to how freeing it felt to be my whole self, once I started speaking about my lived experience with an invisible physical disability!

So happy to share my thoughts with CanadianSME Small Business Magazine on Building Inclusion Through Empathy, to create workplaces where people feel safe to disclose the barriers they’re facing.

You can read the full article linked here 🫶🏽💃🏽✨