Conversations with WLI

Episode 3 - Conversations with the WLI Championship Team

Conversations with WLI sit down with WLI Champions to discuss their career path evolution, exploring themes such as learning from setbacks, developing resilience, and finding your purpose. Join Lisa Prime, from the City of Cambridge and Laura Taylor from York University in Episode 3.

Episode 2 - Conversations with WLI Champions

Conversations with WLI sit down with WLI Champions to discuss their career path evolution, exploring themes such as learning from setbacks, developing resilience, and finding your purpose. Join Jocelyn Deeks from Bousfields Inc. Cheyanne Hammell from PCL Construction and Cyndi Rottenberg-Walker from Urban Strategies Inc. on Episode 2.

Episode 1 - Conversations with the WLI Championship Team

Conversations with WLI sit down with WLI Champions to discuss their career path evolution, exploring themes such as learning from setbacks, developing resilience, and finding your purpose. Join Dana Anderson from MHBC and Claire McIntyre, Oxford Properties Group in Episode 1.

Conversations with DEI: Importance of Queer Spaces and Building Community with Eli Bauwah

Welcome to the special edition of the Conversations with WLI, where ULI Toronto's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Reconciliation Committee highlights the changemakers who are doing amazing DEI work in city building in our new Conversations with DEI podcast with Jennifer Khan and Sameer Patel. In this fourth and final episode, they speak with Eli Bauwah, who shares the importance of queer spaces and building community connections to support one another with Eli Bauwah. Jc Elijah (Eli) M. Bawuah (he/him) is a practicing Urban Planner and Public Consultant with multi-disciplinary experience gained by working in a spectrum of city and community-building roles. He has worked on development applications, master plans, social plans, mobility/transportation projects across Ontario. Eli has co-developed equity initiatives centering the lived experiences and voices of Toronto’s diverse urban stakeholders, while fostering collaborative environments that generate values of reciprocity and sustainability. To Eli, leadership is about allowing yourself to be vulnerable while advocating for what you believe in that may benefit someone other than yourself. This is why he co-founded the Mentoring Initiative for Indigenous and Planners of Colour (MIIPOC). With the goal to advance diversity and representation amongst city-builders and leadership, the Mentoring Initiative for Indigenous and Planners of Colour (MIIPOC) focuses on establishing a national network between experienced planners and emerging planners from marginalized communities. As a former Committee Member of the City of Toronto’s 2SLGBTQ+ Council Advisory Body, he advised and helped to inform strategies aimed at removing barriers faced by the queer community.

Conversations with DEI: Building affordable and equitable cities with Cheryll Case

Welcome to the special edition of the Conversations with WLI, where ULI Toronto's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Reconciliation Committee highlights the changemakers who are doing amazing DEI work in city building in our new Conversations with DEI podcast with Jennifer Khan and Sameer Patel. In this episode, they speak with Cheryll Case, who shares how one can make the changes that we want to see in our communities and what we can do to support the move to building more equitable and inclusive cities. Cheryll Case is an Early Career Canadian Urban Leader with the University of Toronto School of Cities, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, and is founder, and principal urban planner of CP Planning, a planning firm that facilitates partnerships between the government, academic, charity, private, and non-profit sectors to align on a human rights approach to the planning and delivery of housing. This includes designing, implementing, and guiding national, city-wide, and neighbourhood specific affordable housing programs to protect and increase affordable housing supply. She is a co-editor and co-author of House Divided: How the Missing Middle Can Solve Toronto's Affordability Crisis.