BCSF Facilitator: Trixie Ling

Fighting Poverty and Homelessness in BC

“I am a Research and Policy Analyst for Streetohome Foundation. I attended the National Student Forum in Ottawa in 2007 while studying at Trinity Western University’s Laurentian Leadership Centre and interning with Citizens for Public Justice in Ottawa. There, I met a couple of friends from the BC Student Forum who came to Ottawa to pursue internships on Parliament Hill. I moved to Vancouver this past fall to pursue my role with Streetohome, a broad community-based initiative designed to address homelessness in Vancouver. Our work brings together people from all sectors of our community: non-profits, community groups, business, governments and citizens.

I attended the BC Student Forum in 2009 as a discussion facilitator. It is encouraging to see and network with other students and professionals who have integrated their faith with their study and work. I believe dialogue between students, junior and senior professionals is important because you can learn from both the success and challenges that others have experienced in their workplace and how their faith has impacted what they are doing. It is also important to have an open space and opportunity to have these kinds of dialogue with leaders in the community. I am working on homelessness issues in Vancouver, but I am also involved in the BC Poverty Reduction Strategy campaign to fight poverty and homelessness in BC.” -Trixie Ling