FST presents at poverty conference
March 4, 2025
FST’s Leila Sarangi (Senior Director Strategy and Innovation/National Director of Campaign 2000) and Project Researcher Hannah Barrie will join speakers from Jamaica and the United Kingdom next Thursday (March 13) at a free virtual conference exploring themes of intersection and poverty and their relationship to social problems.
Titled Intersectionality: Is Poverty the Missing Link?, the conference will be of interest to people with lived experience of social work and social care services, social work practitioners, social work students, field instructors, practice educators and social work academics.
The conference is being presented by several academic institutions in Canada and Britain and Leila and Hannah will speak on their work localizing poverty eradication across Canada.
Registration and tickets are available at the following link: Intersectionality: Is Poverty the Missing Link? | Canadian Association of Social Workers