INTERCULTURAL STRATEGIES - Key Persons
Charmaine Hammond, CSP, is a highly sought-after business keynote and workshop speaker (having presented to more than 400 000 people worldwide), entrepreneur, best-selling author, and educator who teaches and advocates the importance of developing trust, healthy relationships, and collaboration in the workplace.
Former president of the American Evaluation Association and Founder and CEO of Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Dr. Michael Quinn Patton is known for his numerous books on evaluation and is recognized as an award-winning leader in evaluation theory and practice.
Dr. Roberta Hunte is a facilitator, researcher, educator, mother, and cultural worker whose focus areas include Black women in the building trades, the impacts of racism-related stress on Black maternal health, Reproductive Justice, and higher education access for adult learners of color.
Co-founder of the collaborative and diverse choral music group, The Awaaz Ensemble, Hussein Janmohamed is a dynamic choral director, composer, and performer who is internationally renowned for his work in intercultural dialogue through music.
Jessie Sutherland weaves community-based stories, scholarly research, and over 20 years experience of practice into this practical guide for leaders around the world.
An international speaker, trainer, and consultant, Jessie Sutherland works with organizations and communities to engage diversity, build belonging and ignite intercultural collaboration.
Recipient of BC Community Achievement Award (2023), her approach creates sustainable community change that effectively addresses complex social problems.
Jessie's work has been delivered in over eight languages and has taken her across Canada and around the world to support communities in their efforts to address challenging issues including workplace inclusion, poverty, homelessness, the overdose crisis, elder abuse, reconciliation, youth engagement and more. Many of her clients go on to win awards for their work in engaging diversity and fostering collaboration for sustainable and lasting change.
As founder of the organization Intercultural Strategies, Jessie helps leaders and groups build cultures of belonging to create change in an inclusive and positive way. She is the innovator of the award-winning Belonging Matters framework and community change model designed to change mindsets, deepen interconnections, impart greater social capital and build stronger communities.
Jessie holds a M.A in Dispute Resolution, is a TEDx speaker and author of the book, Worldview Skills: Transforming Conflict from the Inside Out.
With 20 years of experience designing and facilitating engaging workshops in the corporate and non-profit world, Justine Hwang is a Social Impact Calligrapher who loves empowering people with creative confidence and teaching calligraphy as a tool for mindfulness and community building.
Job Titles:
- Elder
- Adjunct Professor at the First Nations
Musqueam Elder, Larry Grant, is an Adjunct Professor at the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program (UBC) who has been recognized for his continuous intercultural work and for helping to revitalize the hun'q'umin'um' language.
A Hereditary Chief of the Gwa wa Enuk First Nation, Chief Joseph is currently the Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada and has dedicated his life to bridging the differences brought about by intolerance, lack of understanding and racism at home and abroad.