Our Team

Emily bridge

Emily is a white, cisgender settler of British and Scottish descent living on the ancestral, shared, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam people), the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). Emily has several years of experience, both within the post-secondary sector and in her community, supporting education and advocating on topics such as consent and sexual violence, abolition and transformative justice, and access to education for people who are incarcerated. Having recently completed her Master’s of Library and Information Studies at UBC, Emily is looking forward to contributing her experience with non-profit governance, and her strategic approach to building community-led information and knowledge systems to the SFCC Board. Emily currently works as the Information Systems and Special Projects Coordinator on the Indigenous Initiatives team in the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at UBC.

Kate marr-laing

Kate Marr-Laing (they/he/she) is a critical social policy researcher currently pursuing an MA at McGill University. They previously completed a BA in political science and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at McGill, where they started their anti-violence work through student-led services.Kate is committed to supporting all people’s practice of bodily autonomy, and is particularly interested in the development of both sex and consent education programs, as well as mechanisms to hold institutions accountable for how they exercise power within communities. Kate is also a current observing member of the McGill University Health Centre Board of Directors.

Kate mullin

Kate Mullin (she/her) is an activist and doula located in a small town on the traditional land of Treaty Six Territory, Amiskwaciy, just outside of the city colonially known as Edmonton Alberta. Kate has been on non-profit boards for seven years and has been serving on the Students For Consent Culture board of directors since 2022. She educates on consent and advocacy through conference talks, toolkits, publications including research and novels, university guest lectures, consent trainings, creating policies and being on advisory boards such as the Federal government's Ministerial Advisory Council on GBV. She is motivated in promoting a world of solidarity that speaks on the necessity of having a deep understanding of consent in order to build a caring community. One that includes a relationship to nature.

Carolyn hibbs

Carolyn (she/her) holds a PhD in Humanities from York University and a Certificate in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Management from Toronto Metropolitan University, on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. She currently lives in western Quebec (unceded Algonquin territory) where she works in the community, and provides governance and management advice to nonprofit organizations across Canada with her business WellRun.

SFCC and Carolyn first connected on a project to link anti-oppression values with management principles. She continues to serve on the Board in support of the financial and administrative side of organizing. She believes that practicing our values in organizing spaces is essential to creating change in our broader communities.

martha capener

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