Janelle Hinds is the founder of Helping Hands, a platform helping youth volunteer and get civically engaged while building skills for their future careers. As the Program Coordinator of this youth-led initiative, she delivers workshops to newcomer and racialized youth to build leadership skills and more to ensure all youth are active citizens.

While working on her Bachelors of Engineering with majors in both Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, Janelle realized her passion for STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) education, entrepreneurship and diversity issues. She founded HackItMac, a collaborative community to learn about technology and organized deltaHacks, the first student-run hackathon in North America with a focus on enabling positive social change. She has worked on integrating efforts to increase diversity in many of her endeavours and always looking for more opportunities to help others in their efforts. Janelle is an advocate for social innovation and encouraging others to pursue entrepreneurial endeavours.

Janelle is also a Mentor and Advisor with FLIK and an inspiring public speaker. She was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2019.

Standing for "Inspire Northern Ontario Women", InspireNOW is a new speaker series that aims to showcase and learn from the bountiful inspirational and talented women that we have in our communities. Join us as we chat with Janelle about her work in the tech industry, civic engagement and everything in between.

All are welcome to join. This is a free event that is hosted online, on the free platform Zoom. You will receive the link to join when you sign up. All events are approximately one hour in length, including the Q&A with participants. We can't wait to have a great and frank conversation about women in leadership with our guest and you.