Peace and Conflict Speakers Series - "A Canada That Works For All Canadians"

Paul Kershaw is the Founder of the Generation Squeeze campaign. He is a farmer morning and night. By day, he is a University of BC professor, public speaker, volunteer, and regular media contributor. Kershaw is one of Canada’s top thinkers about generational equity with Canadian Family magazine describing him as “the ‘Generation Squeeze’ guru.” The Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC awareded Kershaw its prize for Academic of the Year in 2016.  Twice the Canadian Political Science Association has also awarded Kershaw national prizes for his research. The Vancouver Province describes Kershaw as “a one-man road show trying to change BC one talk at a time.

Eric Swanson has spent over a decade in B.C.'s non-profit sector, most of that time spent at Victoria-based Dogwood Initiative - an organization committed to advancing more local control over lands and resources. He has extensive experience in occupied in non-profit leadership, strategy, communications, lobbying, and political and corporate campaigning. Eric is guided by an overarching lesson that our democracy belongs to those who organize and show up. In his early thirties, he and his peers are joined by millions of hard-working, resourceful young Canadians who are worried by rising costs, stagnant wages and mounting private and public debts and he's dedicated to work with them to develop a more powerful voice in policy and politics.  
 

Contact is Nancy Singh (former member) nancysingh1@gmail.com