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So this academic year I’m taking online courses so I can travel and have my head quarters in Ottawa.

My big old house is located in Centretown. I live with a super-cool socially aware family. My partner, Matthew and I share the third floor.

I am working for Dream Now- an organization that teaches youth to take action. We’re just starting to explode and I’m predicting that this year is going to be a busy one.

My friend and I started a business, it is called the Scholarship Training Series. We’re doing speaking series about how to win scholarships in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver this fall, we’ve written a guide about it too. I realize that this doesn’t directly fit into my mission statement of working for social and environmental justice but hey- this is just easy money.

I am the president of the Youth Environmental Network, I am on the Executive Committee of the Sierra Youth Coalition.

I am abolishing the principle of weekends this year. I like the work that I do so much that I don’t like taking weekend breaks. When I’m relaxing all I do is think about my work and how I want to be doing it!

I am doing a Buddhist retreat for 10 days in December!