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WEBINAR | Loving Lessons from our Equity, Reconciliation and Belonging Journey

Written by the Tamarack Institute | Sep 25, 2025 5:49:03 PM

This session is a continuation of our Seeds of Transformation webinar series. In Part 1, we shared the origins of Tamarack’s equity, reconciliation, and belonging framework. In this follow-up, watch an open and honest conversation with Tamarack staff, board members, and a First Nations advisor who supported this transformative journey—what we’ve called our pérégrination. 

  We reflect on key decisions and lessons, including: 

  • Why Tamarack staff needed to lead and carry forward the foundational work initiated by Power of Discourse Consulting.  

  • What non-financial resources were required to carry out this work in a good way? 

  • How we’ve integrated the Seeds of Transformation Action Plan into Tamarack’s annual operations—including tensions and breakthroughs. 

  • What the publication of the framework means in a time when DEI is being questioned and deprioritized across sectors. 

  • What’s next: how we embed this work into community pathways, decision-making, and support for closing equity gaps identified by communities themselves. 

 

You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of what it really takes to conduct an internal equity audit, how to engage your ecosystem in the work, and the very human lessons learned along the way. 

Speakers:

  • Danya Pastuszek, President and CEO, The Tamarack Institute
  • Dina Al-khooly, Board Member, The Tamarack Institute
  • Kahienes Sky, First Nations Advisor from Kahnawà:ke
  • Jodene Baker, VP, Research, Advocacy & External Relations at Imagine Canada
  • Rochelle Ignacio, Director of Equity, Anti-Racism and Reconciliation at the Tamarack Institute
  • Alison Homer, Director, Learning, Evaluation & Systems Change at the Tamarack Institute