Karen Brown (BA \u201991) believes that profound joy can be found by having the courage to venture into the unknown. The President of the Elementary Teachers\u2019 Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and long-time advocate for inclusion in public education will speak at the next Women in Leadership event later this month.<\/p>\n
The Faculty of Social Sciences Distinguished Graduate for 2022<\/a> says she is looking forward to sharing \u201ctactics for navigating unfamiliar terrain, exhibiting resilience in leadership, seizing pivotal opportunities and embracing uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown made history in August 2021 when she became the first Black president of the ETFO, which represents approximately 83,000 members as Canada\u2019s largest public sector union.<\/p>\n Brown\u2019s presentation, \u201cDiscovering the Leader Within: Maintaining Grace Amidst Challenges,\u201d will take place on Thursday, May 23 from noon to 1 p.m. on Microsoft Teams. Details on this and\u00a0other\u00a0upcoming Women in Leadership sessions, including dates, descriptions and login information are available on\u00a0the WIL\u00a0website.<\/a><\/p>\n Women in Leadership is committed to supporting and advancing persons who identify as women to achieve and succeed in leadership. All are welcome.\u00a0Individuals can join the\u00a0WIL channel on Microsoft Teams<\/a> or\u00a0contact\u00a0Jeannie Mackintosh<\/a>\u00a0to be added to the WIL\u00a0email\u00a0distribution list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Karen Brown (BA \u201991) believes that profound joy can be found by having the courage to venture into the unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":92847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38],"tags":[13529,522,10648,10495,7591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92848,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92842\/revisions\/92848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}