Team Category: Associate Facilitators

Amanda is the principal of ParriagGroup, an Ottawa-based consultancy focused on research, evaluation and communications. She has worked extensively with organizations to use knowledge generated to inform policy advocacy and development, helping to influence the policy landscape on various issues including immigrant settlement funding, housing rights, workplace sexual violence, health equity, inclusive K-12 education, and Indigenous child welfare. Amanda has lived and breathed issues of inclusion and diversity her whole life. She brings lived experience to her work with governments and organizations who are interested in doing better.

Jacky is a Canadian journalist based between Toronto and Nairobi. Her work focuses on humanitarian issues, social justice, and women’s rights. She has reported from a dozen African countries on issues including the famine in Ethiopia, refugee policy in Uganda, and the state of emergency with regards to sexual violence in Sierra Leone. Her work has been published by the CBC, the Toronto Star, National Post, The CS Monitor, and Global Citizen, among many others. She developed our “Insider Strategies to Become a Go-To Media Source” workshop, and delivers both it and our “Develop Your Media Interview Skills” training.