--- title: The Latest | Angela Pollack description: "I believe every community has the capacity to become healthy, prosperous and sustainable through cultural development. By traveling from coast to coast, conducting research, and writing about what I see, my goal is to make sure the right people have the right information at the right time so that can happen more often, especially in vulnerable rural communities across our country. I divide my time between Kitchener, London & Whitney, Ontario, and Edmonton where I currently work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Education’s School of Library and Information Studies. 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By traveling from coast to coast, conducting research, and writing about what I see, my goal is to make sure the right people have the right information at the right time so that can happen more often, especially in vulnerable rural communities across our country. I divide my time between Kitchener, London & Whitney, Ontario, and Edmonton where I currently work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Education’s School of Library and Information Studies. Look me up at www.AngelaPollak.ca, @IdeaTourist on Twitter, or connect with me on LinkedIn." ### Recent Posts [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/certificate%20(1).png) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/disability-and-enough-already?hsLang=en-us) ### [(Dis)ability and “Enough Already”](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/disability-and-enough-already?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Angela Pollack](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/angela-pollack) on May 9, 2018 Since attending the recent [asset-based community development (ABCD) event](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ABCDcanada&src=typd) in Kitchener, I have begun to think that I may have gotten something about community development fundamentally wrong by thinking of the term 'community' almost exclusively as a noun. 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