MEET OUR LEADERSHIP
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KAVITA BISSOONDIAL
PRINCIPAL
she/herKavita is a queer person of the Indo-Caribbean diaspora whose work is informed by growing up as a settler and guest in Scarborough, Ontario. She has been engaged in facilitation and consulting on anti-racism, gender, sexuality, and equity for well over a decade with grassroots, student, and social service organizations/nonprofits across the GTA and nationally.
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ERIKA PULFER
PRINCIPAL
she/herErika is an indigiqueer/2spirit person of mixed nehiyaw (Plains Cree) and european settler ancestry, with treaty status and kinship ties at onihcikiskwapowin (Saddle Lake Cree Nation) in Treaty 6. She has been doing program development and evaluation, alongside anti-racism training and policy work using Indigenous methodologies in Tkaronto for over 12 years.
MEET OUR TEAM
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COLLABORATOR
she/herCandice Frederick is a person from the Caribbean diaspora – born in Grenada and raised across Tkaronto. She has been engaged in counselling in community health and reproductive justice spaces where she honed her health equity lens and in higher education where she has worked in the areas of Student Services, Accessibility Services, community justice, and has taught college students in the Social Service Worker program. She now works with a dynamic team where her focus is on transforming the conversation about diversity and leadership. She brings a wide array of skills, including facilitation, assessment, intentional design, and hiring, which are all rooted in a deep and evolving understanding of collective care and psychological safety.
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COLLABORATOR
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MSW, MScKai Cheng is a Qualified Mediator and Certified Professional Coach, as well as noted leader in the field of conflict transformation based in tkaronto/Toronto. She is also the author of five award-winning books in various genres. Kai Cheng’s work focuses on the intersection of social justice, pleasure activism, and transformative approaches to healing conflict. A noted speaker and practitioner of somatic wellness, healing, and group process facilitation, Kai Cheng supports individuals and groups who are seeking to repair relationships and make transformative change. Visit her website at www.ariseembodiment.org
Specialty areas: Mediation, conflict coaching, leadership coaching, group facilitation, conflict skills training, trauma sensitivity training, gender and racial equity and diversity
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COLLABORATOR
she/herM. Lee is a queer, Chinese consultant, Collaborator and Principal at Little Dynamo Strategic Consulting. M. Lee approaches consulting work guided by the framework that organizations are just people.
Organizations often approach M. Lee looking for a “project management system” or an “organizational structure” to resolve challenges they are facing. M. Lee believes that any system or structures designed will be unsuccessful without a holistic, in-depth understanding of the people that make up that organization.
Specialty areas: organizational framework, strategic planning, change management, project management, organizational review, management coaching, visioning, operations.
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LEAD CONSULTANT
she/hernitali@shorelinecollaboratives.com
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COLLABORATOR
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Larae Harbour is a Black mixed-race, genderqueer, person raised in Chicago and a settler in the GTA. They are a counselor and community facilitator, passionate about imagining and working toward a future of trans and queer liberation. They enjoy visioning and creatively thinking about how to solve problems and build safer and braver spaces. They like to use any opportunity to use play and storytelling to teach, learn from each other, and join together in a bit of silliness. With a Master's of Social Work from Toronto Metropolitan University, they have worked as a therapist for 2SLGBTQ+ youth and their families for many years. Larae loves creative hobbies like gardening, fishkeeping, and imaginative play with their child and siblings.Specialty areas: gender, sexuality, racism and anti-oppression training, equity, social services/youth and family engagement, counseling, facilitation, strategizing, visioning
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CONSULTANT, COACH
they/themMarisa is an autistic genderqueer person that is both part of the Southeast Asian diaspora and a white settler. They bring a multitude of lived experience as a QTPOC, disabled person. They hold many nuances as a person on the cusp of many privileges and with passing abilities in most of the communities they identify with.
Marisa is a business management coach, operations and HR consultant and an employee advocate. They have 15 years of experience in management, operations and HR and their specialty is workplace harm reduction, EDI and improving accessibility.
Specialty areas: Management and professional development coaching, group learning, facilitation, HR, anti-oppressive policy, operations, strategic planning, anti-oppressive frameworks (specifically dis/ability, gender outside the binary, and racial equity).
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COLLABORATOR
he/himJoaquin Santana is a brown trans man from the Dominican Republic who grew up in the Boston and NYC area currently living in Nogojiwanong. He is a peer support worker and health care advocate for gender diverse folks. Joaquin has spent decades working to engage the community in building Trans/Queer centred spaces. He is passionate about creating spaces that are not defined by gender expression and inclusive of all genders. He believes that a liberated society can only exist when every single being feels loved and cared for. He spends most of his time with his family- reading, playing and caring for their home.
Specialties: community organizing and engagement, gender affirming and health care advocacy, group facilitation, project management, peer counseling, event coordinator.