{"id":72795,"date":"2021-01-13T14:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=72795"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:26","slug":"carletons-fass-healthy-cities-lecture-series-justcityott-imagining-a-just-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2021\/carletons-fass-healthy-cities-lecture-series-justcityott-imagining-a-just-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton\u2019s FASS Healthy Cities Lecture Series \u2014 JustCityOtt \u2014 Imagining a Just City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton\u2019s FASS Healthy Cities Lecture Series \u2014 JustCityOtt \u2014 Imagining a Just City\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

What defines a healthy city? Join Carleton University\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<\/a> (FASS) for a series of expert panels to explore the many factors \u2013 from nature and housing to climate and art \u2013 that make a healthy city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What needs changing, reimagining, unsettling and remaking for a just city? The panel will engage ideas, actions and practices related to: housing for people not profit, caring communities, and feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist planning and city-making in Ottawa in times of COVID-19 and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When<\/strong>: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration<\/strong>: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/events\/healthy-cities\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderators and Panellists:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naini Cloutier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloutier is the executive director of the Somerset West Community Health Centre (SWCHC) in Ottawa. She has more than 20 years of experience working in the Community Health Centre (CHC) sector focusing on health equity, community development, health promotion and advocacy issues. Cloutier sits as a member of the Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership (OLIP) Council which provides leadership and strategic stewardship in the implementation of the Ottawa Immigration Strategy (OIS). She holds a master\u2019s in Public Administration from Queen\u2019s University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patricia Harewood<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harewood is a labour lawyer and a passionate advocate of human rights, especially women\u2019s equality and racialized peoples\u2019 rights. As a member of the City for All Women Initiative (CAWI) steering committee, a volunteer co-host of CHUO\u2019s Black on Black<\/em> and a board member at her children\u2019s daycare, the Centre \u00e9ducatif Les D\u00e9brouillards, she especially enjoys collaborating with others to discuss and address systemic barriers faced by historically marginalized communities. Harewood has been a member of the CAWI steering committee since 2017 and is now a member of the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayley Millington<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millington is a federal public service employee and an activist who is currently serving as the Union of National Employees, National Equity representative for its racialized members. She is also a past co-chair of the Racially Visible Action Committee. She sits on her housing Co-op\u2019s Board of Directors as its president and is director of member relations on the Board of Co-operative Housing Association of Eastern Ontario (CHASEO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valerie Stam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stam is the executive director of the City for All Women Initiative (CAWI). Stam works with staff, community partners and residents to advocate for equitable and inclusionary municipal policies and practices. Committed to gender equality, racial justice and participatory learning, Stam collaborates with CAWI members to offer a range of services on diversity, inclusion, anti-oppression and gender equality to municipalities, community organizations and the private sector. Stam has a doctorate in sociology and writes about race, participatory theatre and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie Tomiak<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomiak is an interdisciplinary researcher of mixed Anishinaabe and European descent who studies Indigenous resurgence, decolonization and cities. She is an associate professor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ifrah Yusuf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuf is the co-chair of the Justice For Abdirahman Coalition, an Ottawa-based group made up of primarily young Black activists. The objective of this campaign group is to obtain greater transparency, challenge racial inequity, and bring an end to bureaucratic processes that obstruct justice for the late Abdirahman Abdi. Yusuf was born and raised in Ottawa, and is an accounting graduate from the University of Ottawa. When not at her day job as a risk consultant, Yusuf spends her time doing activism work with the coalition and other initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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