Our Team
Meet the exec
Tia wonG, CO-CHAIR
Tia Wong (she/her) graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Health & Community Services from the University of Victoria (traditional territory of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and WSÁNEĆ peoples), having previously attended Carleton University for Global & International Studies. Tia currently resides in Ottawa (traditional territory of the Algonquin Nation), where she works as a web and print designer for climate change initiatives.
Within SFCC, Tia has served as Education Lead and is currently Co-Chair. She is passionate about creating a culture of consent through peer-led education, building capacity within student communities, and strengthening the student movement against sexual violence across so-called Canada
Contact: chair@sfcccanada.org
KATE MULLIN, EDUCATION LEAD
Kate Mullin (she/her) is a BA psychology and gender studies student at the University of Alberta, located on the traditional land of Treaty Six Territory. She is a proud activist working historically with different organizations in topics of gender-based violence, diversity and mental health support. This translates into her position as Education Lead within SFCC, where she is driven to further the conversation about this social justice issue and support students in their efforts through educational projects.
Her dedication to the movement against sexual violence comes from a personal place of her own healing, where she learned this issue cannot be ignored. She holds multiple certifications to support survivors in their process of healing through disclosures, coming from a trauma-informed and suicide prevention lens.
Contact: education@sfcccanada.org
MEET THE BOARD
Connor Spencer
Connor Spencer (she/her) is an organizer interested in building and participating in communities, solidarities and allyships between anti-violence, anti-capitalist, and justice movements across Turtle Island. Chair of SFCC from 2018-2020, and having gone through the experience that was a BA at McGill, she is intensely interested in holding institutions accountable for the violence and power structures that they perpetuate and uphold, and building spaces to dream and create new worlds. She currently works as in the national labour movement and as a SFCC BoD member on unceded Algonquin territory.
Kate marr-laing
Kate Marr-Laing (they/he/she) is a critical social policy researcher currently pursuing an MA at McGill University. They previously completed a BA in political science and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at McGill, where they started their anti-violence work through student-led services.Kate is committed to supporting all people’s practice of bodily autonomy, and is particularly interested in the development of both sex and consent education programs, as well as mechanisms to hold institutions accountable for how they exercise power within communities. Kate is also a current observing member of the McGill University Health Centre Board of Directors.
wasiima joomun
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Vincenza Mazzeo
Vincenza Mazzeo (she/her/them/they) is a PhD Candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University, 2020-2021 Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, and member of SFCC’s Board of Directors. She holds an H.BA from the University of Toronto, MA from Carleton University, and is ABD at McGill University.
Vincenza’s research interests include gender and sexuality studies, African history, and histories of health and medicine. Her dissertation uses oral history and women’s alternative media to examine the entanglements between non-racialism, feminism, and anti-apartheid health activism in South Africa during the 1980s.
Vincenza has engaged in direct-action community-based organizing against SGBV across 5 countries since 2017. She is Italian-Canadian and currently resides on the ancestral land of the Paskestikweya people in Baltimore.
Carolyn Hibbs
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