Bienvenue à nos visiteurs francophones. Pour en savoir plus sur MentorAction, veuillez cliquer ici.
Bienvenue à nos visiteurs francophones. Pour en savoir plus sur MentorAction, veuillez cliquer ici.
When I first came on board as a volunteer with the MentorAction Steering Committee, it was something I saw as of benefit to me professionally: an opportunity to make some connections with men on the Steering Committee and the staff of Interval House of Hamilton. At...
Tarana Burke has been hard at work for the past 3 decades working against racial injustice, violence and gender inequity. Ms. Burke was a victim of sexual violence as a child and teenager. She states that these experiences inspired her to work to improve the lives of...
Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was a young Jewish girl who wrote a diary detailing her family’s two-year struggle hiding in an attic to escape the Nazi invasion. Her strength and courage is captured in her writings and her diary remains an important piece of history....
Another incredible woman that we would like to acknowledge this Women’s History month is Kimberle Crenshaw. She is a law professor, teaching at both Columbia Law School in New York and UCLA in Los Angeles. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African...
Michele Audette is the president of the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC). As an advocate for aboriginal women across the country, the mother of five hails from an Innu community in northern Quebec and fought against sexist laws in Canada’s Indian Act that...
Each month we introduce a member of MentorAction. This month we would like to introduce Shawn Chisholm. "My name is Shawn Chisholm, and I’ve been with on the Steering Committee with MentorAction since the early days. I believe that ending gender-based violence rests...