Corrie Melanson (She/They)

Strategy and Learning Lead

Corrie combines more than 20 years of facilitation experience with visual tools to facilitate breakthrough conversations that spark engaged action and learning. She excels at designing, facilitating, and evaluating dynamic learning and change processes that build on individual and organizational strengths. Corrie uses proven principles of adult education, universal design, and culturally responsive practices to build inclusion and create engagement, possibility, and collective action.

In addition to an undergrad in international development and a Master’s in Lifelong Learning, Corrie holds certificates in Adult Education, Facilitation, Appreciative Inquiry, Conflict Resolution, Participatory Evaluation and Graphic Facilitation.  In 2011, Corrie co-founded Rainbow Refugees Association of Nova Scotia (RRANS), an organization that supports and privately sponsors LGBTQ+ refugees.

Corrie loves:

  • Dancing (especially Cuban salsa)
  • Singing
  • The journey of parenting three racialized, adopted children
  • Swimming in the cold Atlantic Ocean

Illustrations by Bea van Leeuwen. We are privileged to work in Mi’kma’ki, on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people.

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