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Orbis corporation community action team12/31/2023 ![]() Her path toward interior design, and ultimately starting a thriving interior design firm, was one of trial and error. ![]() In fact (like so many of us) when she graduated from university she had no idea what she wanted to do. Like so many of us, Rebecca's journey to find her 'career calling' was anything but linear. She is also a graduate of Lasalle College International, in Vancouver, where she studied Interior Design. Rebecca is a graduate of Political Science and English Cultural Studies, from McGill University. This week we interviewed Rebecca Hay, Founder & Creative Director of Rebecca Hay Designs Inc an internationally published, full-service residential interior design firm with a passion for creating sustainable, classic, and inviting homes. This Week's I.M Possible Series Career Spotlight: Rebecca Hay, Founder & Creative Director of Rebecca Hay Designs Inc. Given the current social strife we are all experiencing in North America, and globally, Pride associations from coast-to-coast have put aside their agendas, and utilized their platforms, to include anti-racism messages in support of Black Lives Matter movements focused on eliminating the discrimination of Black People in any community. “Positive Space is about more than waving a rainbow flag during Pride month, it is about creating equitable access to safe and inclusive spaces for all members of the Okanagan College community," Gillies concludes. However, Gillies notes that the committee will be continuing to meet digitally and thinking through ways to foster positive spaces even while students and many employees aren’t physically on campus. Unfortunately, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, an initial soft-launch and student/employee feedback event scheduled for March 31st, 2020, had to be postponed. "The Positive Space Committee welcomes folks to the conversation with questions, concerns, or ideas on how we can achieve a truly positive space and experience on all of our campuses." "We recognize this work will be ongoing and always reflective of the needs of our community", adds Gillies. ![]() ![]() The Positive Space Committee also exists to engage in the prevention of discrimination through engagement, education, awareness, and celebration of our diverse population. This means proactively creating opportunities to educate, engage, and actively promote the inclusion of LGBT2QIA+ persons in every area of campus life". “It’s about awareness, but it’s also about action. “The purpose of the Positive Space Committee is to challenge the patterns of silence and inequity that continue to marginalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, and queer students, staff, and faculty even in environments with anti-discriminatory and inclusive policies,” explains committee Chair Jewell Gillies. Comprised of members from all corners of the college, this group is dedicated to creating and fostering positive spaces that support gender and sexual diversity on all OC campuses. Okanagan College has launched a Positive Space Committee. Okanagan College Launches New Positive Space Committee Until next week, stay safe, and take care of each other. ![]() This week's update also contains two additional free training session announcements, another installment from our I.M Possible series, and a great story on the work Okanagan College has been doing around inclusivity with their Positive Space Committee. With all the ideas coming forward, we will be starting to limit how long requests will be open for voting before taking them down - so make sure to log in and have your say. We are still getting our feet underneath us, but there are lots of comments and feature requests coming in. We would like to extend a thank you to everyone who has started participating in the new Community of Practice. This week's newsletter highlights a few of the platform options for validating off-campus volunteering and experiences managed by outside organizations. Summer has traditionally been our busiest period, and this year is shaping up to be no different. The next few weeks promise product and company announcements that will have a major impact on our campus partners. As we slip past the halfway point in June and push full steam ahead into the long days of summer, we are heavy into some really exciting new developments at Orbis. ![]()
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