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.

Introduced to world politics as a teenager on an exchange year abroad in Germany, Sarah brought home suitcases full of European clothes and the realization that local issues can have global consequences. In 2007 she walked into the British Columbia Legislature where she began her political career for the former B.C. Liberal Government. She retired from politics in 2012 and moved to Fort McMurray to be closer to her partner and take on leading a non-profit dedicated to increasing community leadership.

In 2018 Sarah pitched the non-profit board she was sitting on the design for A Woman’s Place as a fundraising idea. Her idea was rejected and several months later Madame Premier was born with the same design part of the first Election and became a wardrobe staple for women in Canada and around the world for women who support and believe that a woman’s place is in politics. A portion of every sale is donated to local organizations that work to advance gender equality for women and girls. Sarah has a Bachelor of Arts in Justice Studies from Royal Roads University. She and her husband, Ali, have two sons and a dog and now call Calgary home.

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 talk to Sarah about her start in politics and how she created this amazing company.

All are welcome to join. This is a free event. It will be hosted online, on the free platform Zoom. You will receive the link to join when you sign up. We can't wait to have a great and frank conversation about women in leadership with our guest and you.

Join us online from the comfort of your home for an InspireNOW conversation featuring East Ferris municipal councillor and all-around amazing woman, Erika Lougheed.

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.

All are welcome to join. This is a free event. It will be hosted online, with more details to follow. Please RSVP by reserving your spot below. On Wednesday afternoon, you will receive an email with a link to the Zoom room that we will be using for our online gathering. You are welcome to join us on camera, or just listen in.

We can’t wait to “see” you all!