BRIANNA NELSON

CANADA, 26

Project: Womxn of Colour Durham Collective (WOCDC)
Pronouns: She/Her

Now in its third year of operation, WOCDC is a youth-led community organization in the Durham Region, Canada, with a mission to inspire knowledge-sharing, leadership, healing, and creativity. Through their three-tier pillar system, they connect community, create opportunities for Black Indigenous Women of Colour ages 16-29, and work to cultivate sustainable change. 

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What will your project look like in 3-5 years? 

Our hope is that WOCDC will continue to grow within Canada as a youth-led organization promoting community, youth leadership and equity. We hope that our “Get Outdoors” project will be the launch pad for something bigger addressing the systemic issues within the "Nature Gap" and bolstering representation, engagement, and advocacy.

“When we say ‘inclusion’, we are not looking to just add racialized folks to already established conversations – we are starting new conversations, from the ground up, from these very spaces of knowledge and recognition in each of us.”
Evan Wei-Haas