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Line 20: − <big>Join us for February’s Ask Me Anything, where we commit to having an honest, open, and transparent conversation for [https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month.html Black History Month]. This month's speakers are public servants and inclusive leaders from diverse backgrounds, departments, and stages of life who will have real and raw conversations celebrating Black excellence in the public service.</big> − − <big>Their complex stories offer an entry point into understanding the multifaceted experiences of Black Canadians.</big> − − <big>The month of February is the month designated to remembering the contributions Black people have made in the past and continue to make across Canada and beyond. Black History Month is about embracing innovation, resilience, and togetherness toward a united country in which everyone has a chance to prosper.</big> − − <big>Come to the Ask Me Anything and learn from our diverse panelists whose experiences have shaped their careers. Whether you're a new or a seasoned member of the Federal Public Service, this event will equip you with the knowledge to navigate your public service career through a diversity lens.</big> − − <big>Join us as our speakers share their sincere stories and raw reflections on the Ask Me Anything stage!</big> − Line 37:
Line 28: − + − − ==== <big>Cathy Beye, PhD, Policy Analyst (Acting Senior Policy Advisor), National Defence, Ottawa</big> ==== − <big>Cathy is a native of Senegal, in Western Africa, who chose the public service after embracing a life in Canada. Cathy also lived in Paris several years, where she had her first novel published.</big> − − <big>After immigrating to Canada, Cathy started a doctorate on the Integration of Francophone West African Women Immigrants in Montreal with the support of a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. While still conducting her research, life events led Cathy to concurrently start a career in the public service to support her family.</big> − − <big>Cathy successfully balanced her role as a single mom, advancing her career in the public service, defending her thesis with honors, and having her second novel published in the same year.</big> − − <big>By becoming the agent of the change she wants to see, Cathy got involved in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion work. She was the lead pen of the Report on the first Design Jam of the Black Engagement and Advancement Team at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). At the department of Women and Gender Equality (WAGE), she led the Black Employees Network in organizing and hosting the 2023 Black History Month Events and received the Deputy Minister Group Award for Diversity and Inclusion during National Public Service Week. Cathy also received an individual Instant Award in Recognition for her contribution to Diversity, Inclusion and Federal-Provincial-Territorial Relations at WAGE.</big> − − <big>Cathy is determined to further her contribution to a healthy and inclusive workplace at National Defence (DND) in Ottawa.</big> + + + − + + − + − + − + − + − + − + − <big>In 2018, Patricia became the Office Administrator to the Regional Director of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). In 2021, she was asked to cover a secondment at Public Service and Procurement Canada, where she worked as an Administrative Assistant to the Regional Director of Client Relations Management.</big> − <big>Patricia is also part of the Atlantic Diversity Leaders Network. Once her secondment ended, she obtained an indeterminate position with Corporate Services and is currently the Acting Administrative Assistant of the Real Estate Services Regional Manager.</big>+ − + − [[File:SytuisGuei.jpg|alt=|left|frameless|120x120px]]+ − ====<big>Sytuis Guei, Manager, Canada Revenue Agency’s Ombudsperson Liaison Office, Service, Innovation and Integration Branch, Ottawa</big>====+ − <big>Sytuis Guei is currently the manager of the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) Ombudsperson Liaison Office within the Service, Innovation and Integration Branch in Ottawa. He holds a Master's degree with distinction in Languages and literature from the University of Victoria and was a recipient of the Western University’s President scholarship for PhD studies. He taught literature and French language for several years at various Canadian universities. His career in the public service started as an Office Administrator at the BC Ministry of Finance in 1997. After a hiatus in academia, he rejoined the Federal Public Service in 2008. He has been with the CRA since 2010, where he has occupied progressively more senior positions in various branches. As an aspiring executive, he is currently participating in various executive coaching and training programs. His professional passion is to help build a public service that represents Canadians of all stripes. He just finished his term as the Co-Chair for the CRA’s national Management Network Group (MGN), he is a member of the CRA’s diversity and inclusion network and the representative of his branch on the MGN national committee. He also volunteers and participates in various community organizations’ activities, as permitted by his family’s schedule.</big> − − <big>Sytuis is a husband to his spouse of more than two decades and a father of two sons and a daughter.</big> − − <big>Sytuis is here today to contribute to the monumental change that LLMC has begun operating within our society, and he is happy to be part of this transformation.</big> − + − − ====<big>Gana Moke, Alberta Tax Service Office, Canada Revenue Agency</big>==== − <big>Gana works at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Collections and Verification branch, Alberta Tax Service Office, Edmonton site.</big> − − <big>He is Black and, therefore, a visible minority. Gana has a non-visible hearing impairment therefore part of a special subgroup as a non-visible minority.</big> − − <big>He joined the government to make a difference in the world but quickly settled under the status quo and lost the drive to impact change. Gana got his groove back as a result of the pandemic and the hybrid world.</big> − − <big>Gana networks, advocates, elevates and encourages the advancement of Black employees, people with disabilities and extended equity-deserving groups. His hope is to inspire all employees to recognize and maximize their potential by harnessing their individual knowledge and experience to meet the needs of Canadians. This transfer of knowledge helps mitigate risks resulting from the rapid growth of digital service options. Black employees are valuable for the success of Canada.</big> − − <big>Gana is a CRA Black Employee Network governance team member. He is also a member of the Federal Black Employee Caucus. Gana is a featured speaker on the Public Service Speakers List and Equity Diversity and Inclusion Network Database, focusing on accessibility.</big> − − <big>He is part of the 2023 Lifting as You Lead Mentoring Circles Program and Aspiring Leaders Learning Initiative cohorts. Gana is in a reverse mentorship program representing the Western Region Visible Minorities Network and a 2016 and 2022 Excellence Award finalist.</big> − [[File:Screenshot 2023-12-20 at 8.19.01 AM.png|alt=|left|frameless|258x258px]] − − ====<big>Lyrique Richards, Student, Diversity and Inclusion Office, Materiel Group, Department of National Defence</big> ==== − <big>Lyrique is a Human Kinetics student at the University of Ottawa with a focus on social issues in sport, physical activity, and leisure. She’s in her third year with the Public Service, spanning experience from Health Canada and National Defence. But Lyrique is much more than that. Her layers include being a Black Canadian woman, born and raised in Ottawa to immigrant parents from Jamaica and Antigua.</big> − + + − + + − + + + + +
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<big>'''Co-hosted by:''' Gana Moke and Lyrique Richards</big>
<big>'''Featuring:''' Katherine Ip, Mark Mindel and Andrea Monrad</big>
<big>'''Date and time:''' Wednesday, February 21 at 1:00 to 2:30 PM EST</big>
<big>'''Co-hosted by:''' Alfonso Ralph Mendoza Manalo and Emilie Plows</big>
<big>'''Date and time:''' Wednesday, April 10 at 1:00 to 2:30 PM EST</big>
<big>'''Audience:''' Open to all Government of Canada employees</big>
<big>'''Audience:''' Open to all Government of Canada employees</big>
=== <big>Event description</big> ===
=== <big>Event description</big> ===
=== <big>About the Ask Me Anything series</big> ===
=== <big>About the Ask Me Anything series</big> ===
<big>This session is part of a series of Ask Me Anything discussions that give us a platform to share stories, listen, ask respectful questions and continue on our journey to have more inclusive organizations.</big>
<big>This session is part of a series of Ask Me Anything discussions that give us a platform to share stories, listen, ask respectful questions and continue on our journey to have more inclusive organizations.</big>
=== <big>Meet our panellists</big> ===
=== <big>Meet our panellists</big> ===
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==== <big>Katherine Ip, Administrative Services Coordinator, Social and Political Sciences and Law Directorate Professional Support Centre, Linguistic Services, Translation Bureau, Public Services and Procurement Canada</big> ====
<big>Katherine Ip (she/her - elle/la) began her career in the public service as a casual employee for the Canada Revenue Agency in 1998 while also studying at the University of Winnipeg where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology. In 2005, she accepted a full-time position in an English-French bilingual work environment with the Translation Bureau as part of the operations support staff and has since become the Administrative Services Coordinator for the Translation Bureau’s Social and Political Sciences and Law Directorate. In June 2023, Katherine became the interim Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee champion and was nominated into the position officially in October 2023.</big>
<big>Katherine is a cis-gender, late-diagnosed neurodivergent, able-bodied queer woman happily married to her nonbinary genderqueer spouse and, together, share their lives with four rescue dogs, including one who is Deaf and another who is blind. She is also a visible minority whose parents are first-generation immigrants to Canada from Hong Kong and the Philippines. Her name in Cantonese is Yip Bik Wa and she was given a sign name in American Sign Language (ASL) by her friends in the Deaf community in Winnipeg. Katherine speaks Cantonese, is fluent in both official languages, learned some Japanese while teaching English for a year in Japan, and is currently learning ASL virtually from Deaf instructors across North America.</big>
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<big>Katherine’s interests as a portrait artist, member of a Japanese drumming (taiko) group, Certified Family Dog Mediator, and rock climber of over 20 years, along with the many layers of her identity allow her to face challenges and find solutions with creativity, compassion, and always through an intersectional lens.<br /></big>
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====<big>Patricia Fraser, Administrative Assistant, Realty Services Atlantic Region, Public Service and Procurement Canada, Halifax</big>====
====<big>Mark Mindel, Program Officer, Integrity Services Branch, Employment and Social Development Canada, Service Canada</big>====
<big>Patricia Fraser was born in Madagascar; from there, she moved to France and then Canada.</big>
<big>Mark Mindel is growing their career in government by working out of the Prince George Service Canada Centre in British Columbia’s North! As a people person, Mark strives day-to-day to provide excellence in client services.</big>
<big>Her first language is French, but her parents felt that she would benefit from an English education. During the early seventies, there were no French schools in Halifax, Nova Scotia,where Patricia grew up and lived her life.</big>
<big>Mark’s non-linear path in gender identity is an experience Mark uses in their elected role for their union to lead the non-binary conversation.</big>
<big>Patricia graduated from Mount Saint Vincent University with a Bachelor of Arts.</big>
<big>That conversation is one that falls alongside Mark’s layers as a parent to three adopted Indigenous children, recent marriage to their husband, and Mark’s Euro-Punjabi roots.</big>
<big>Before working for the Federal Government, Patricia was a Flight Attendant and a Bilingual Editor and worked on the Sea King and Aurora manuals.</big>
<big>Mark holds a Master’s degree in Immunology and went all-but-dissertation on a McGill Doctorate publishing in diverse fields of science, medicine and engineering (maiden name of “James-Bhasin”). After taking some law courses, Mark got their feet wet understanding our system of government in Mark’s hometown of Ottawa. After a few years of learning experiences in the proverbial “bubble,” Mark produced Mark Carney’s Global Citizen Award for the United Nations.</big>
<big>Patricia Fraser has been with the Federal Government for almost 15 years. She started her government career at The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) in 2009, then moved to various Government Departments, such as Immigration and Refugee Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and Canada Border Services (CBSA).</big>
<big>Mark’s passion for diversity is best understood by their emphasis on ensuring that all voices get brought to the table.</big>
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<big>She is married and has a daughter and a Shui tzu, which she considers her fur baby.</big>
====<big>Andrea Monrad, Communications Security Custodian, Environment and Climate Change Canada</big>====
<big>Andrea Monrad joined the Communication Reserves in 1988. She worked within the Forces at Esquimalt, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, and the Golan Heights before transitioning to public service in 2009, still within the Department of National Defence. Her military career covered radio and teletype, the start of computer networking and on to supporting Defence Wide Area Network and classified networks at home and deployed. Throughout her military career, she has focused on communication, security, and IT. In 2017, Andrea moved over to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) to become the Communications Security (ComSec) Custodian, supporting Classified networks and then in 2020, moved over to the Cyber Security and Policy office.</big>
<big>Andrea is a proud single dad of a twenty-year-old queer kid who ‘came out’ in her teens and helped Andrea realize her own identity journey. Her path led her to become the co-champion of ECCC’s Pride Network, the co-chair of the Public Service Pride Network’s Interdepartmental Working group on Chosen Names and Gender Marker Modernization, and an active participant in both GC and ECCC DIEE and identity issues.</big>
=== <big>Meet our co-hosts</big> ===
=== <big>Meet our co-hosts</big> ===
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<big>Lyrique was raised with strong ties to the West Indies, with soca and reggae music pouring from her home, being an Afro-Caribbean dancer for 10 years, and as an Alumna of the Afro-Caribbean Cotillion program. Lyrique carries her Caribbean culture with her, influencing her passion for welcoming those around her into the Caribbean culture and her drive for diversity and inclusion work.</big>
====<big>Alfonso Ralph Mendoza Manalo, Junior Policy Analyst, Anti-Racism Unit, Royal Canadian Mounted Police</big>====
<big>Born in Manila and based in Toronto. Alfonso Ralph Mendoza Manalo is an openly-gay Filipino-Canadian public servant. He is currently a Junior Policy Analyst in the Anti-Racism Unit. Prior to this, Alfonso worked as a Policy Advisor in the RCMP's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Unit and the Race-based Data Collection (RBDC) Team, and as a Research Assistant for the Information Management Policy Section. He has worked on a variety of EDI files, i.e. the founding of the RCMP’s Pride Network, co-writing the RCMP Addressing Systemic Racism Budget Submission, RBDC, and advocating for the inclusion of an anti-Asian racism and religious-based discrimination sub-module in the RCMP’s United Against Racism course (authoring the former). He is currently the co-chair of the RCMP’s Pride Network.</big>
<big>From a young age, Lyrique has loved to use her voice to share stories, uplift others and encourage people to be unapologetically and authentically themselves. Lyrique is striving to build a database of books by minority authors for minority students to use for research papers and projects; it will be a place where minority students can see themselves reflected in their work.</big>
<big>Outside of the RCMP, he has worked in a variety of research and policy roles for the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, the Scarborough Campus Student Union’s Racialized Students Collective, the Filipino Centre Toronto, and the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He has published on 2SLGBTQIA+ issues, East/Southeast Asian politics and history, and migration and diasporas. He recently graduated from the University of Toronto, with a double major in Public Policy and Global Asia Studies and a minor in Critical Migration Studies.</big>
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<big>Her daily mantra: “Just do you, and you’ll leave your mark.”</big>
====<big>Emilie Plows, Acting Manager, Fleet Operational Priorities, Canadian Coast Guard</big> ====
<big>Emilie Plows works for the Canadian Coast Guard and recently celebrated 15 years in the Public Service.</big>
<big>She graduated cum laude from the University of Ottawa in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. You may wonder about the utility of such a degree in the Government of Canada, but it has served her in great stead in three areas: 1. note-taking (her superpower): maintaining historical context and decisions on long-standing issues, 2. analysis: researching a broad topic and synthesizing relevant information, and 3. writing and editing: everything from newsletters to senior management briefings. (Maybe 4. Convincing others that a history degree is a worthwhile pursuit.)</big>
<big>Emilie joined the Positive Space Initiative in November 2022 as an ally and has since assisted in the drafting/review of communications material and 2SLGTBQIA+ awareness training within the department. She is passionate about encouraging and loving the people around her, especially those who are marginalized and downtrodden.</big>
<big>Emilie’s greatest joy is being a mom! She pursued motherhood as a single woman and, after 2.5 years on a roller coaster of emotions, was finally successful in conceiving by IVF. Her daughter, Evelyn (Evie), is now 2 years old and an absolute delight! Though it might sound cliché, Emilie feels that life with her daughter as a solo mom is a dream come true.</big>
== '''Mission: Ask Me Anything series''' ==
== '''Mission: Ask Me Anything series''' ==
