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MARLA SLAVNER
- Location:
- Canada
- Languages:
- English, French, Spanish
- Issues:
- Climate Change, Education, Racial Injustice, Refugee Crisis and Immigration, Economic Injustice, Women and Girls, Gender violence , Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Impact Producing, Campaign Implementation, Mentorship
- Cultural/racial identity:
- Caucasian
- Self identification:
- female
Bio
Marla Slavner’s passion and commitment to caring & making the world a better place has seen her participation at the community, government & board levels advocating for youth, education, peace, environment, arts & literacy, access to justice, elimination of violence against women & girls, human rights issues. She is an entrepreneur with unbridled catalyst energy and creative vision. As a board member with The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace she has served as a United Nations delegate & youth mentor for the past eight years at The Commission on the Status of Women. In addition, Marla has facilitated restorative peace-building circles to help divert youth from the criminal justice system, is a trained facilitator in trauma and transformational healing with the Capacitar World Network, as well as an accredited family court support worker for victims of abuse. Marla worked as an independent media, publishing & sponsorship consultant for over 25 years before she stepped into the role of Producer & Impact Strategist on The Sunrise Storyteller with The Global Sunrise Project, a social enterprise founded by her GenZ daughter and multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker Kasha Sequoia Slavner.
