Erin Light (she/her)
Director of Operations
[email protected]
ID: Erin is kneeling inside an Innu tent. She's surrounded by camping supplies and there are a bed of evergreen branches under her. She is making donuts.
Erin Light is an activist anthropologist with an unwavering commitment to social justice and reconciliation. She is a to-do list master, an enthusiastic and perpetual learner, a big proponent of the Oxford comma, and above all a relationship builder.
With a passion for continuous learning, and a belief in using that learning to facilitate positive social change, she is well versed in social research and community consultation with an MA in Cultural Anthropology, her research focusing on the historical erasure of Indigenous identity in Newfoundland and Labrador. She has been awarded multiple awards and fellowships for her work including the SSHRC CGS Master’s Fellowship and Memorial’s F.A. Aldrich Fellowship.
Excited to find that there exists a career where you can be organized professionally, she also earned her Master’s Certificate in Project Management from Schulich School of Business and York University, and takes a relationships-first approach to all projects she manages. She brings knowledge of the Arts and Culture space to the table as well, coming from a background in the Arts non-profit world as a Manager, Board Director, and volunteer.
While her winding path has carried her through the arts and heritage sectors, the tech start-up world, and even across the Atlantic Ocean, the common thread throughout her career has been her drive to foster and support spaces and communities of equity and inclusion and advocate for Indigenous rights and Truth and Reconciliation.
She has a love of trying new things, a quality that has resulted in an ever-expanding list of hobbies; she sings in Lady Cove Women’s Choir, serves on the Independent NL Board of Directors - among many other volunteer pursuits - and has a pesky habit of surprising her husband with stray puppies that she has smuggled home from Labrador. She loves a long hike, a strong coffee, a challenging escape room, and especially all of the above enjoyed with her favourite two tiny humans, Edith and Lucy.
Selected CV
MASTER’S CERTIFICATE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT (2018)
Schulich’s School of Business, York University & Gardiner Centre, Memorial University
MASTER OF ARTS, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2012 – 2014)
Memorial University
Thesis : Money Talks ; How the News Media is Helping to Silence an History of Indigenous Discrimination in Newfoundland
THERAPEUTIC CRISIS INTERVENTION
ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
FIRST AID
With a passion for continuous learning, and a belief in using that learning to facilitate positive social change, she is well versed in social research and community consultation with an MA in Cultural Anthropology, her research focusing on the historical erasure of Indigenous identity in Newfoundland and Labrador. She has been awarded multiple awards and fellowships for her work including the SSHRC CGS Master’s Fellowship and Memorial’s F.A. Aldrich Fellowship.
Excited to find that there exists a career where you can be organized professionally, she also earned her Master’s Certificate in Project Management from Schulich School of Business and York University, and takes a relationships-first approach to all projects she manages. She brings knowledge of the Arts and Culture space to the table as well, coming from a background in the Arts non-profit world as a Manager, Board Director, and volunteer.
While her winding path has carried her through the arts and heritage sectors, the tech start-up world, and even across the Atlantic Ocean, the common thread throughout her career has been her drive to foster and support spaces and communities of equity and inclusion and advocate for Indigenous rights and Truth and Reconciliation.
She has a love of trying new things, a quality that has resulted in an ever-expanding list of hobbies; she sings in Lady Cove Women’s Choir, serves on the Independent NL Board of Directors - among many other volunteer pursuits - and has a pesky habit of surprising her husband with stray puppies that she has smuggled home from Labrador. She loves a long hike, a strong coffee, a challenging escape room, and especially all of the above enjoyed with her favourite two tiny humans, Edith and Lucy.
Selected CV
MASTER’S CERTIFICATE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT (2018)
Schulich’s School of Business, York University & Gardiner Centre, Memorial University
MASTER OF ARTS, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2012 – 2014)
Memorial University
Thesis : Money Talks ; How the News Media is Helping to Silence an History of Indigenous Discrimination in Newfoundland
THERAPEUTIC CRISIS INTERVENTION
ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
FIRST AID