Shanese Green
Shanese Green (nee Steele) (she/they) is a bridge-builder, advocate, and equity-driven community animator dedicated to fostering spaces of belonging and transformation. As Senior Community Animator, Equity and Reconciliation at Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, she brings 14 years of experience in collaborative community development, collective capacity building, and place-based learning.
An Afro-Indigenous femme of Métis, Trinidadian, and Grenadian descent with Anishinaabe familial ties, Shanese’s work is deeply rooted in relational strategies for conflict navigation, 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonial practice. She is passionate about equitable policy development, transformative curriculum design, anti-racism, and systemic equity, particularly in the context of youth leadership, community engagement, and gender-based violence prevention. Shanese's work weaves together traditional knowledge, intersectional frameworks, and community-led action, always centering a decolonial, queer, feminist, and pro-Black approach. A published writer, her work can be found in Xtra Magazine, The Trent Arthur, Global Indigenous Youth: Through Their Eyes (Columbia), and Nutmeg and Sage Blog.
