Hi, I’m Nicole, a humanitarian worker with a background in journalism and human rights activism.
I was born in Vancouver, grew up in a small community in Nova Scotia, and now call the Davenport riding in Toronto home. I’m a queer, non-binary, French-speaking settler raised by a single mother, and these intersections inform the work I do, and the way I engage with the world.
I’ve worked in coffee shops, movie theatres, arcades and in retail mall stores. I know first-hand what it’s like to work minimum wage jobs in expensive cities and think all Canadians deserve to be paid a living wage. After many years working these jobs, I went back to school to study journalism with a goal to shed light on underreported crises and human rights abuses.
I spent time working with journalists in Zambia and Sierra Leone, supporting them to report more effectively on human rights abuses. I spent time volunteering at an independent newspaper in Moldova championing human rights as well as some time in Geneva volunteering for an organization that had me going to the UN Human Rights Council daily.
For the past decade, I have been engaged in humanitarian work, overseas and also in Canada, responding to countless natural disasters, mass migrations, protracted crises and epidemics. My first humanitarian mission was to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and I returned several years later to respond to Hurricane Mathew. I have also supported responses to cholera in Sierra Leone, and to the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. I was in Nepal after the earthquake in 2015, in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, and in Bosnia recently for a mass migration response. In Canada, I supported a BC wildfire operation, as well as the Alberta floods response in 2012.
Most recently, I have been supporting COVID-19 responses abroad remotely. I firmly believe in an equitable and just recovery from COVID-19, which has so clearly exposed the gaps in Canada’s healthcare system and has affected folks already most marginalized.
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Hi, I’m Nicole, a humanitarian worker with a background in journalism and human rights activism.
I was born in Vancouver, grew up in a small community in Nova Scotia, and now call the Davenport riding in Toronto home. I’m a queer, non-binary, French-speaking settler raised by a single mother, and these intersections inform the work I do, and the way I engage with the world.
I’ve worked in coffee shops, movie theatres, arcades and in retail mall stores. I know first-hand what it’s like to work minimum wage jobs in expensive cities and think all Canadians deserve to be paid a living wage. After many years working these jobs, I went back to school to study journalism with a goal to shed light on underreported crises and human rights abuses.
I spent time working with journalists in Zambia and Sierra Leone, supporting them to report more effectively on human rights abuses. I spent time volunteering at an independent newspaper in Moldova championing human rights as well as some time in Geneva volunteering for an organization that had me going to the UN Human Rights Council daily.
For the past decade, I have been engaged in humanitarian work, overseas and also in Canada, responding to countless natural disasters, mass migrations, protracted crises and epidemics. My first humanitarian mission was to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and I returned several years later to respond to Hurricane Mathew. I have also supported responses to cholera in Sierra Leone, and to the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. I was in Nepal after the earthquake in 2015, in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, and in Bosnia recently for a mass migration response. In Canada, I supported a BC wildfire operation, as well as the Alberta floods response in 2012.
Most recently, I have been supporting COVID-19 responses abroad remotely. I firmly believe in an equitable and just recovery from COVID-19, which has so clearly exposed the gaps in Canada’s healthcare system and has affected folks already most marginalized.