{"id":164,"date":"2022-01-09T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=164"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:31","slug":"kira-mcdermid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2022\/kira-mcdermid\/","title":{"rendered":"Kira McDermid, Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Kira McDermid, Student\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/McDermid_Kira_800x800px-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/McDermid_Kira_800x800px-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/McDermid_Kira_800x800px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/McDermid_Kira_800x800px-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/McDermid_Kira_800x800px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/McDermid_Kira_800x800px-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/McDermid_Kira_800x800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kira began working in the nonprofit sector when she was 18, following in her parents\u2019 footsteps at March of Dimes. Since graduating from university, her focus has been on the issue of gender inequality, specifically the impacts on girls. She worked with Girls Inc. of Halton as a front-line Program Facilitator, worked in fund development, and maximized community partnerships as Development Coordinator, before becoming Director of Programs. More recently, Kira created the She Can! Girls Empowerment Programs at Milton Community Resource Centre, where she works currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kira holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from York University and completed the Diversity in Non-Profits course at Ryerson University. Both have been rich, learning experiences that Kira draws from in her work and life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She hopes to gain further knowledge and skills from the MPNL program so that she can have a significant impact on gender inequality through an intersectional approach. Kira believes that this formal education experience will enable her to make strategic, long-term decisions and optimize the resources available for this cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her free time, Kira enjoys reading, drinking coffee, and canoe trips with her husband, Eric, and dog, Cali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kira began working in the nonprofit sector when she was 18, following in her parents\u2019 footsteps at March of Dimes. Since graduating from university, her focus has been on the issue of gender inequality, specifically the impacts on girls. She worked with Girls Inc. of Halton as a front-line Program Facilitator, worked in fund development, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}