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Each City Symposium event is situated around one of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. On September 14, the series explores the local relevance and implications of Goal #1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Monday, September 14, 2020
6:40 PM – Pre-Symposium Mini-Concert
7:00 PM – Speakers and Presentations

Learn more about the City Symposium format and series.

Free registration for the event is now open at citysymposium.com/no-poverty/

Speakers include Dr. Abe Oudshoorn (Western’s School of Nursing), Susan Macphail (former director of CMHA’s My Sister’s Place), Amy Rathan (founder of ImpactLondon), Jonathan Rivard (Manager with the City of London’s Homeless Prevention department), and Malvin Wright (community developer). Hosted by Dr. Melanie-Anne Atkins (Western’s Centre for Teaching and Learning).

In this video, Amanda Kennedy speaks about the ramifications of colonization, trauma, and mental health in education, and the importance of land-based learning. This talk was recorded at the City Symposium on Quality Education.

Amanda is a social innovator and the founder of the Kuwahs^nahawi Social Enterprise.

“COVID-19 has put a bright light on in the inequities in public education.” In this video, Rick Pardo (former Coordinator for the Culture of Innovation for the Thames Valley District School Board) speaks about the need for innovation and agility in the public education system, especially in light of the pandemic. (Recorded at the City Symposium on Quality Education)

In the most recent addition to the Voices from the Margins of a Crisis series, Carolin Elizabeth George (Director, Community Health Institute of Research Bangalore Baptist Hospital) writes about the impacts and implications of COVID-19 pandemic for the inhabitants of the nation’s urban slums (and the contextual incoherence of typical public health guidelines).

“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to misguide, mislead and misinform the world.” — Dobijoki Emanuela Bringi

In this video, Dobijoki presents on representation and equity in education (recorded at the City Symposium on Quality Education)

Dobijoki is currently pursuing a Doctor of Education at Western University with a focus on Indigenous African-Centred Education as Decolonization.