Jerome Morgan is a social innovator and member of ABSI’s Community Catalyst Program working in central Alberta on a project to work with the B-I-P-O-C community - Black, indigenous and people of colour - to encourage and grow their capacity to harness social innovation and design thinking to solve stuck problems in their community. In the process, they’ve been growing his capacity as well. Our host, Elise Martinoski, spoke with both Jerome and his co-designer separately. Moréniké Ọláòṣebìkan started Ribbon Rouge to use art for social change. In particular her work focuses on health equity for people of African descent.
More information on Ribbon Rouge: https://www.ribbonrouge.com/
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Thank you to Abigail Toledo for the land acknowledgment through the Virtual School Project. For more information on the Virtual School Project you can contact Julia Dalman at julia.dalman@epsb.ca.
We’d like to thank our funding partner the Suncor Energy Foundation, producer and editor, Elise Martinoski of ABSI Connect, and theme music creator Eily Aurora.