Our Staff
HALENA SEIFERLING, Executive Director
Halena Seiferling (she/her) has diverse experience in stakeholder engagement, policy advocacy, research, communications, and facilitation. She has worked in projects advocating for living wages and fair labour standards, electoral reform, civic engagement, and climate justice. Halena has a Bachelor of Arts (Sociology) and a Bachelor of Arts Honours (International Studies) from the University of Regina and a Masters in Public Policy from Simon Fraser University. Halena is also a dancer and artist, and sits on the Board of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition.
KERRY PORTH, Community Developer
Kerry Porth (she/her) is a former sex worker and current sex worker rights activist. Kerry has years of experience working with marginalized people and grassroots movements in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to effect social change through strategic litigation, public education and advocacy. She has worked on research projects relating to the sex industry, and her expertise relates to sex work activism, training, policy, law, and governance. Kerry holds a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University.
NADIA GRUTTER, Community Developer and Training Lead
Nadia Grutter (she/her) holds over 10 years of experience in facilitation, frontline harm reduction, public education, violence prevention and response, communications, and publishing. She cares deeply about mobilizing peer knowledge to improve the health and safety of historically neglected groups. She is white, queer, and disabled, and a settler on the traditional coastal homelands of the Songhees and Esquimalt people, colonially known as Victoria, BC. She holds a BFA, and writes in her spare time.