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September 21 and 22
2 days, 2 disciplines, 2 ways to participate – defining our professional roles and uniting to build more equitable, accessible and inspired communities.
#2GETHER2022
Lena Phillips (she/her), based in tkaronto (Toronto, Canada), currently works at the intersection of philanthropy and equity, supporting grassroots and systems change work being led by and for Indigenous and Black communities. She also works as research assistant at OCAD U exploring creative practice and placemaking; as well as a researcher with Virtual Grounds (a project of Digital Justice Lab and Trinity Square video) where she is exploring digital justice/urban futures. She previously worked in the non-profit sector focusing on food security, arts and culture, and community development. Past projects include youth-led, grassroots organizing for climate justice as well as engaging as a participatory action researcher focused on housing/displacement in London post-2012 Olympics and anti-eviction work in slums/informal settlements in sub-Saharan African cities. Her interests lie in applying African/Afro-centric, Southern and Indigenous epistemologies and urbanisms as a means to critically interrogate dominate Northern/Western theories of urban space. She has a BA from the University of Toronto and an MSc Urban Development Planning from The Bartlett, University College London.