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Instagrams @Mishmaroon: https://www.instagram.com/mishmaroon/ @Airaza21: https:/ /www.instagram.com/airaza21/ @_mannyknows: https://www.instagram.com/_mannyknows/ Bio Anyika Mark studied Political Science & Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto-St. George campus and has been involved in a variety of student associations and community grassroots organizations throughout her years as an undergraduate. She has worked with the Black Students’ Association, the Caribbean Studies Student Union, UofT’s Black Graduation ceremony, the Caribbean Solidarity Network and, most recently, Black UrbanismTO. Anyika has also been involved with the NDP in the York South-Weston community and currently works as a constituency assistant for Member of Provincial Parliament for Toronto-St. Paul’s, Jill Andrew. Her activism for the NDP extends to the Ontario New Democratic Party Youth Council where she was elected as the Outreach Director. In her personal life, Anyika loves theatre and was the Stage Manager for DreamGirls, the first black musical to be held at the University of Toronto, was a part of writing a show on Black Canadian history and has acted in a number of student led productions. Anyika recently had the honour of hosting a live read of her own play, Making Moves, with Nightwood Theatre through their playwrighting program, Write From The Hip in September of this year. Making Moves was also performed at Weston Artscape in February 2020 by Piece of Mine Arts for their Black Women In Theatre event. Jill Andrews: https://www.jillandrewmpp.ca Brock Turner Case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner Cocktales & Lunell Episode:  https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kiki-said-so/cocktales/e/71461166 Indigenous Reconciliation: http://www.trc.ca/reconciliation.html Trudeau taking a Knee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHb7YQV1cxs Sasha L Henry: https://www.instagram.com/sashalhenry/

In this episode, Sally speaks with Tamer Ibrahim of the Laidlaw Foundation about Youth Collective Impact, or Youth CI.   Tamer is the manager of Youth CI at Laidlaw and also sits on the board of directors at the ‘For Youth Initiative’: a non-profit organization that has served, inspired and advocated for thousands of teens and young adults in York South-Weston since 1995.     Youth CI is a program of the Laidlaw Foundation, in partnership with Innoweave, that helps organizations in local communities across Ontario develop, launch and implement collective impact approaches that directly improve outcomes for youth in their community.   Tamer talks about what has been learned in the first 5 years of this unique program in Ontario and how making space for young people to lead change has had an impact on the systemic issues young people face. Youth CI and Laidlaw have been intentional about the importance of listening to and supporting youth in finding solutions and have been consistent and successful in building youth leadership into all aspects of their work.   Tamer and his previous colleagues at the foundation,  Ajeev Bhatia (@ajeevbhatia) and Ana Skinner (@ana_skinner) developed and use these principles to ground their work:   “We are brokers of inherently colonial wealth”  “We don’t know every issue impacting every community”  “We have to say ‘No’ a lot”   We think these principles are important in any philanthropic context; talking about them has made the work of Laidlaw and Youth CI clearer and strengthens the foundation’s relationships with grantees.   Tamer also talks about how there are no straight lines to impact and building our ability to speak clearly and honestly with one another will help us sit with discomfort and find new solutions.     Resources:   Tamer Ibrahim: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamer-ibrahim-5b451726  Youth CI: https://laidlawfdn.org/funding-opportunities/youth-ci/   Laidlaw Foundation: https://laidlawfdn.org Laidlaw Foundation Twitter: https://twitter.com/laidlawfdn?lang=en  For Youth Initiative: http://www.foryouth.ca  Innoweave: https://innoweave.ca    Find out more about our work at Social Impact Advisors: https://socialimpactadvisors.ca  

On this episode of Your Right to Speak we talk with Freddy Brobbey who has his own music company JustOverMusic. Freddy is the Creative Director/Producer at JustOverMusic and works within the York South Weston community in Toronto. We talk about his work and how power can have positive impacts on young people. The majority of Freddy’s works is decreasing the stigma of entering the music world. The underlying theme of Freddy’s work is mentorship and guiding young people on a positive path. The conversation turns on the stigmas that the youth who Freddy works with face and the impacts of systemic oppression.  As well as some of the barriers to the grant system and the not for profit sector.    JustOverMusic website: https://justovermusic.com/crew/   Let's raise awareness together!