Parker & Plamandon-Assu Consultants presents

Rachel Plamondon-Assu & Kevin Parker in conversation with Vikki Reynolds & Tara Taylor

Online

March 10 and 11

VANCOUVER
9am - 12pm PST

TORONTO
12pm - 3pm EST

For everyone working towards and curious about being informed by people with lives and living experience in work alongside communities of struggle.

Kevin Parker is a Black Canadian man currently creating and running one of BC’s largest harm reduction and housing centres. Kevin brings decades of lived experience to his work, while creating space for other PWLE to make meaningful and valued systems change.

Rachel Plamondon-Assu is an Indigenous woman from the Wei Wai Kai nation. She brings her connection to her culture alongside her decades of lived experience to creating opportunities for other Indigenous people and PWLE. She currently manages and runs peer programming in Vancouver’s DTES.

Vikki Reynolds (PhD RCC) is an activist/therapist and white settler who works to bridge the worlds of social justice activism with community work and therapy. The majority of Vikki’s work is shouldering up workers responding to oppression and suffering.

Tara Taylor is a white settler working in the field of community engagement and development with a focus on harm reduction and community well being.

We work collectively on the stolen traditional and ancestral homelands of the Xwmǝθkwǝỷǝm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Sǝl̓ílwǝtaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.