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|'''<big>Jennifer Hong</big>'''
|'''<big>Jennifer Hong</big>''' (She/Her)
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|Policy Analyst (Canadian Forest Service)
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|Jennifer Hong is the current co-chair of NRCan’s Visible Minority Advisory Council (VMAC). As the co-chair, she provides strategic direction to VMAC’s work in achieving a representative, inclusive, and discrimination-free federal public service. Jennifer actively collaborates with VMAC’s 9 executive team members to implement programs and advise NRCan senior executives and other EDI stakeholders, both inter and intra-departmentally, on policies that support NRCan’s visible minority community.
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Under her leadership, VMAC has successfully organized and delivered 10 virtual inclusive-by-design events that have had a combined audience of over 500 federal employees, with the most recent event garnering an audience of over 800 NRCan employees and active participation from the NRCan’s previous Deputy Minister, Jean-François Tremblay, and four Assistant Deputy Ministers. She has also developed and facilitated NRCan’s first-ever Safe Space Session on the topic of anti-asian racism and continues to support spaces that allow for meaningful dialogue and learning amongst staff.
Jennifer is a recent graduate from the University of British Columbia holding a BSc Honours in Forest Sciences specializing in Forest Ecosystem Services and currently is a policy analyst for the Circular Bioeconomy and Supply Chain Economics team at the Canadian Forest Service.
She is passionate about engaging youth in environmentalism and has worked for the Parks
Canada Agency developing community outreach programs for diverse public audiences including new-to-Canada and Indigenous communities and has led a student team to complete environmental restoration activities for the City of Surrey’s Salmon Habitat Restoration Program. Previously, she has supported NRCan’s employees in 19 different innovation-related projects and has international experience working for Singapore’s National Parks Board. In addition, Jennifer has experience analyzing environmental policy solutions and programming to implement the Pan-Canadian Framework for Environment and Climate Change Canada. She is also a member of the CFS EDI Working Group, the events organizer for the Young Professionals Network, an NRCan Mental Health and Wellness Ambassador, and has been trained in Positive Space and GBA+.
|Twitter: @jenn1616hong
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-hong16/
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