e-Campus - Work Wellness Institute

Harmony is a queer, pansexual, poly, sober, disabled, ADHDer who is a mixed race, Filipino white settler, living and working in what is colonially known as New Westminster, BC. As a visibly disabled, queer, person of colour, her intersectional perspective is central to her personal approach to accessibility, disability justice education and advocacy, activism and harm reduction. She is eager to collaborate, share knowledge and invite others in and to help create spaces where all disabled people, all BIPOC, all 2SLGBTQIA+ people can access what we all deserve: community, support, respect and joy.

Founder of Compassion Yukon I worked with the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition and Inclusion Yukon to put on the Accessibility Olympics which led Art Karts to invite me as a disabled person to join part of his Expedition on the Yukon River. I was a truck driver delivering all over the Yukon before my physical disabling car accident. I know a little about a lot of things and was recently diagnosed neuro-spicy-ness I taught and learned Okinowan Wepons, and Shotocan Karate also just started to learn Sword (Iado) up until the Accident. Currently just trying to survive.

I am a 54 year old LGBTQIA+ woman with an acquired, chronic illness/disability. Before becoming disabled I was very ambitious and hard working, putting myself through CEGEP and university, studying biochemistry. At the age of 27, after a near-death experience I went back to school to study nursing. I have never worked in either of these professions, mostly due to lack of accommodations, prejudice and my own inability to function. I see the world changing and I am seeing more young people with disabilities in the workplace, which gives me hope, however, I would like to see more of us working outside of disability organizations.