The Wellness Series, hosted by the Principal's Office, returns on Tuesday, October 31 with keynote speaker Brandi Leifso. She will share her story of resilience and social impact. We welcome Humber staff and faculty to join us for a talk on the power of choice in relation to mental health, and how we can create a life of purpose, achievement, and positive impact.

All attendees will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a special prize pack.  

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The event will also be livestreamed. A link will be shared via email with those who register closer for the event.

Speaker Bio

Brandi Leifso is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur. At 21, Leifso was living in a domestic violence shelter when she founded Evio Beauty Group Ltd., an impact-led clean beauty brand on a mission to break stigmas with inclusive, good-for-you beauty products. Evio joined strategic alliances with some of the world’s most recognized industry leaders and multi-national retailers such as Shoppers Drug Mart.

A Chatelaine magazine’s Women of the Year alum, Leifso is an advocate for domestic violence reform. To date, her company has donated more than $510,000 worth of products and funding to 27+ shelters across Canada that support survivors of domestic violence. Leifso has spoken around the world to bring awareness to domestic violence, including Forbes Under 30’s first-ever global women summit in Israel and was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 25 Women of Influence and received an Independent Retail Ambassador of the Year Award from the Retail Council of Canada.

Wondering about how to be an effective ally/accomplice? In this session, participants will be prompted to intentionally reflect on their own lived experiences as they consider how to shape their allyship practice.

Facilitators, Christine Hsu (they/them) and Jessie Florio (she/her + they/them), will explore what it means to effectively practice allyship and introduce critical concepts of accompliceship. This includes the need to unpack the allyship industrial complex and share their own personal practices across the Canadian and global landscape. They will share their experiences in regards to showing up in solidarity for people and communities that they aspire to be allies for, including the times they have failed and how they moved through the experience with their own accountability practice. 

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In early December 2021, Humber officially launched a group for employees who identify as white and/or as having white skin privilege to examine how they have been conditioned by their whiteness and how it shows up in their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and within their institutions (home, work, educational, religious, etc.), and to build an anti-racist practice. 
 
Interested in joining the circle or have questions about it? For more information email theunlearningcircle@humber.ca, or visit our webpage to learn more and access past meeting materials. 

Next session: The Circle will hold its eleventh session virtually on Thursday, October 26 from 12:05 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. 

Researchers! Join us to learn more about NSERC’s Applied Research and Development (ARD) grants to support research and development (R&D) projects led by college researchers in partnership with private sector, public sector or not-for-profit organizations based in Canada while encouraging collaboration with universities and/or other colleges. This opportunity allows the development and strengthening of research links and collaborations between different institutions and/or partners that have a common goal of creating economic, social and/or environmental benefits while contributing to the research ecosystem continuum.

ARD Session Overview:

• ARD overview 
• Completing an application 
• ORI Support 
• Additional information

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Facilitator Bio:

Raeshelle Morris-Griffith is an Innovation Program Manager for the Office of Research & Innovation at Humber College. She holds a Masters in Leadership from the University of Guelph, a double major honours Bachelor’s Degree in Management and Organizational Studies from the University of Western Ontario and is also a certified project manager (PMP). She is trained in Creative Problem Solving, Values-Based Innovation through Values-Perspectives, Design Thinking, Change Management and Human-Centred Design. She has also obtained her Black Belt in Innovation Strategy Management through Innovation 360, which has equipped her to facilitate organizational design and transformation.

Juan Felipe Garcia is an engineer by education. Felipe attained his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Los Andes, Colombia, in 2018. His desire to pursue Project Management and his enthusiasm to explore the world beyond Colombia landed him in Canada in December 2019. He then acquired his post-graduate certificate in Project Management from Centennial College School of Business, Ontario, in 2020. Juan joined the ORI team as a Project Analyst, NSERC in 2022.

If you have any questions please contact Raeshelle Morris-Griffith at raeshelle.morris@humber.ca.