REBEL KNOWLEDGE SYMPOSIUM 2024

Food and Housing Injustice

Panelists and Workshop Hosts

Panelists

Keynote Panel on Classism, Capitalism, Colonialism, and Poverty

John Clarke

Chelsey Edwards

Rachelle Sauvé

Keynote Panel on Food Injustice

Nayssam Shujauddin (she/her)

My name is Nayssam Shujauddin, I am the Community Program Lead for f.u.n. (Food Uniting Neighbours). I facilitate daily activities that further the 5 Action Areas, identified by the community, to improve access to nourishing food in the Onward Willow neighbourhood. Together with 13 Community Advisors and several partner organizations, I help develop and implement cooking workshops, gardening programs, food-related transportation supports, community lunches, and other actions that boost community food access and sociability.

My focus is on community-led and collaborative development and implementation of food access projects and programs – I’ve found that the actions that stem from this model can more effectively and accurately meet people’s needs, while maximizing limited resources available in the community. In my experience, collective action fosters good conversation, meaningful working relationships, and creative solutions to on-going problems.

 

 


Nicole Leighton (she/her)

Nicole Leighton is the Grocery & Market Coordinator for The SEED and a yoga teacher on the side. She believes in building stronger communities where everyone has unapologetic access to health and wellbeing through collective care and de-colonizing social structures. In her free time loves cooking, driving to music & spending time with her many nieces & nephews.

 


Sarah Eltayeb (she/her)

My name is Sarah Eltayeb, and I am a Community Advisor on the f.u.n. (Food Uniting Neighbours) project. My goal is to help the community access resources. I work with 12 other Community Advisors to solve the community’s problems that prevent access to healthy food. Together we have implemented cooking workshops, gardening programs, food-related transportation supports, and community lunches. I help with recruiting and registering program participants, I coordinate with them and provide program information as well as support during different workshops. Through many of our different programs, I work on set up and tear down.

I also am involved in an on-going weekly program, called f.u.n. Fridays, that offers lunch, coffee, The SEED’s sliding scale market, and free surplus food for people to take home. I also coordinate with the community partner organizations who join us and share with the community the services they offer.

 

 


Keynote Panel on Housing Injustice

Ricardo Trajan

Dominica McPherson

Rachel Vear

 

Workshop Hosts

Food System Resiliency Table

Winston Husbands (he/him)

War on Drugs Workshop

Jamie MacBeth (she/her)

Jamie MacBeth is a long time activist and harm reductionist. She works for Sanguen Health Centre in Guelph, as a social support coordinator, outreach worker, offering education, on the Hep C team, and working on the Guelph Community Health Van. Jamie got into harm reduction work through HIV/AIDS work in both East Africa and British Columbia. Jamie has worked with children, youth and adults in her work.

Jamie is deeply committed to making existing systems more accessible and accountable, sharing learning and unlearning, anti-oppression work, relationship based and trauma informed work, interconnected activism, being a Mama to a great kiddo, being an extreme nature and gardening nerd, and finds joy and delight in craft-making exploits. Jamie is grateful to be at this Rebel Symposium sharing information on human rights, systems, and consequences of capitalism, history and policy. 

 


Alaina Klassen (she/her)

Alice Macquire

Naloxone Training Workshop

Alaina Klassen (she/her)

‘Meaning Making’: Non-Disposability Circle

Wild Queer Abolitionists

FIGs Zine Exploration

FIGs (Food Insecurity Group) Collective

 

Installation Hosts

Short Film Screening: “It Makes A Village”

Karen Houle (she/they)

Karen Houle is a former professor and current activist. They are a part of the Art of Soil Collective.