About me
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Regan Sunshine Brussé is a social justice advocate focused on housing and poverty in Waterloo Region.
Fueled by coffee and conviction, her website blends politics and grassroots action while seeking equitable and positive change in her community. |
Chronologically scatttered: A few Touch points of my experiences
- Person With Lived Experience of Homelessness and Poverty
- Began actively advocating on poverty issues in 2015 when I began participating with the (since disolved) Alliance Against Poverty
- Focus topics of this group were housing, living wage, and free transit for low income individuals
- Ran in Ward 2 for City of Kitchener Council seat in 2018
- Community Advocacy Certificate - Conestoga College
- Bookkeeping Certificate - Conestoga College
- Tax preparation employment experience and related education/training/knowledge
- Unsheltered Campaign - Member / Contributor / Co-Creator
- City of Kitchener Housing Advisory Committee Member - 2019
- Blog Post: The Time To Hesitate Is Through
- Documents & Reports:
- Housing Needs Assessment - City of Kitchener
- Volunteer roles in participation with Region of Waterloo housing functions:
- Plan to End Chronic Homelessness (PECH)
- Co-Creators & Prototyping functions - RoW & SDCWR Streams
- "Unsheltered Working Group" and "Housing and Homelessness Advisory Meetings" - (RoW)
- Blog post: As we start having more of the difficult conversations surrounding unsheltered lives - Jan. 2022
- Plan to End Chronic Homelessness (PECH)
- Wilfrid Laurier University - Project Reseach Assistant: "Realizing the Right to Housing: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments"
- Organizer and content creator for WRCommunityTownHalls.ca
- Duties included within employment roll for Rob Deutschmann (position held through duration of his time on Region of Waterloo Council - 2022-2025)
- Job title: Community Outreach Coordinator For Regional Councillor Rob Deutschmann
- Duties included within employment roll for Rob Deutschmann (position held through duration of his time on Region of Waterloo Council - 2022-2025)