Speaking up for justice counts during the election debate. Candidates want to know what their communities care about and you can let them know.
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1.5 Live hours 1 Live sessions
Succeed at Advocacy: Federal Election 2025 April 8, 2025 at 7pm ET
This is the second part of an
ongoing series; establishing a network of faith-filled advocates, who cast
God’s vision of dignity and justice for all. This webinar will give you a
chance to role play questions for candidates about issues. The United Church of
Canada is actively working on the issues that you are passionate about
regarding this upcoming election
There
will be opportunities for large group conversation about how you can
effectively influence the conversations in your community during the election
period. This election period will be a laboratory in which you can practice
skills in real time with the support of one another online via the ChurchX
Forum and with coaching from Emily and Beth. There will be engagement
opportunities and suggested reading before April 8th and then every week we
will offer a case study for the collective community to workshop via the online
forum.
This is an
opportunity for you to take your advocacy skills to the next level, no matter
where you see yourself today.
Speakers
Beth Baskin (she/her)Identity and Mission Network Coordinator, The United Church of Canada
Beth
Baskin works in the Church in Mission Unit of The United Church of Canada based
in Toronto, ON. In her role as Network Coordinator, she supports (in
collaboration with many colleagues) people across the country to make the world
a better place through actions on many justice issues. She is an advocate,
anti-racist, facilitator, justice seeker, and learner who is aware of her
urban, middle class, late-middle age, heterosexual, white privilege and uses it
as she can to make her community, churches, country and world better
places.
Emily Dwyer(she/her) Government Relations Officer, The United Church of Canada
Emily Dwyer works
as the Government Relations Officer for the General Council Office of the
United Church of Canada and is based in Chelsea, Quebec. In her role, she
builds relationships with decision-makers and key government departments,
supports partners, networks and communities of faith in developing policy
proposals and advocacy plans, and helps make progress towards The United Church
of Canada’s national justice priorities. Emily has dedicated most of her life’s work to supporting social
justice and ending inequality. Her over
20 years of experience in advocacy and government engagement provides valuable
insights into how to effectively, collectively engage government on justice
issues. 12 years as the Policy Director (National Coordinator) of the
Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability contributed to this learning.
Beth Baskin (she/her)
Emily Dwyer(she/her)