VCC Nursing Annual Health for All World Cafe

Key note speakers include: 

Lorelei Williams, founder of Butterflies in Spirit, a dance group that raises awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls through powerful performances. Born in Mission, BC and raised in Vancouver, BC Canada, Lorelei is from the Skatin Nations on her mother’s side and Sts’ailes on her father’s side. She has worked with diverse organizations and committees including the Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Coalition, the Sisterwatch Committee, West Coast Leaf, the National Security Transparency Advisory Group, Sovereign Bodies Institute in California and the National and International Brigades in Mexico. 

Dr. Mariana Chilton is the author of The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know—and Start Again and founder and director (2004-2024) of Dornsife's Center for Hunger-Free Communities, a community-engaged research and advocacy center focused on developing solutions to hunger and economic insecurity and founder of Witnesses to Hunger, a movement to increase women's participation in the US national dialogue on hunger and poverty.

Bety Tesfay is a staff lawyer at West Coast LEAF, passionate about racial justice and gender equality, Bety advocates for gender justice through litigation and other law reform tools. 
Location: Hybrid

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