Anti-Racist Business Mentorship for Black Folks

4 individuals can get a 1-year start-up package worth over $10,000!

This mentorship program helps aspiring equity and inclusion consultants launch their business and strives to alleviate the challenges of navigating the corporate world as a racialized person.

What’s included?

• $500 CAD to start up your business

• 20 hours of one-on-one coaching with Cicely Belle Blain

• Support with Sole Proprietorship registration or Incorporation

• Unlimited e-mail support

Support from Partners

(subject to change based on partner support)

• $500 worth of advertising

• 1hr photoshoot for professional headshots

• 40 hours of branding, design and web support

• Free web copywriting 

• Free ad or social media copy 

• Free small business consulting/advising

Dr Rachel La Touche

Rachel La Touche (BAH, MA, Ph.D.) is a Toronto-born, internationally trained scholar and author whose award-winning career has interrogated questions of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), mental health, and organizational culture. Dr. La Touche currently serves as an Assistant Professor at York University. She loves gardening, reading, and travel.

Segen Mehreteab

Hello! My name is Segen Mehreteab (she/her) and I am a Black Woman in Mississauga. After various lived and work experiences, I found an immovable desire to make change work related to social justice my career- and began my MSW at Laurier. My driving passion is in environmental justice, challenging the racism within climate change and connecting youth from urban centres to nature- a space that has been made inaccessible and even hostile to marginalized groups. I am a firm advocate of anti-oppressive work and practicing in critical and innovative ways that move towards equity and social transformation.

ARTOVERMATTER CREATIVE INC.

ARTOVERMATTER CREATIVE INC. is an inclusive creative agency who partners with purpose-driven organizations and change-makers in making an impact in the communities they serve, since 2007. We are a passionate team with a big heart and vision who aspires to make a difference through design. Our team proudly represents rebels, allies, immigrants, feminists, human-rights and mental-health advocates, climate-change and sustainability champions, members of the 2SLGBTQQIA+, BIPOC, and other marginalized communities.

The Tyee

We're an independent, online news magazine from BC founded in 2003. We're devoted to fact-driven stories, reporting and analysis that informs and enlivens our democratic conversation. Our reporting has changed laws, started movements and garnered numerous awards and the respect of our peers and readers.

Kate Bouchard

Kate Bouchard is Founder + Principal of Armature Collective, where she leads a team of creative freelancers in delivering marketing, branding, and design for our clients. In her first year of business she was nominated for the Women of Influence RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award. Kate believes strongly in giving back to arts and community services, and supporting personal development. She has held numerous community leadership roles, organized charity events, and provides Personal Coaching to a select group of clients.

Shania Clarke

Shania Clarke is a Video Expert & Business Coach. She teaches new coaches how to leverage the power of video marketing so they can attract and convert their followers into clients.

Ashley Aron

Ashley Aron is a personal style coach, performing artist, and creative femme sorceress. She has been a personal stylist for 10 years and her work is rooted in the principles of experimentation, collaboration, and delight. Transformation is exciting, but it’s also vulnerable and scary as hell. Shopping can be awful, especially for those of us who know the trauma of living in a marginalized body. Sometimes we just need someone to be our dance mom, or our side-eyeing bff, or the eyes of that cutie on the street that just...sees us!

Maria dela Cruz

Maria is a Systems Change Community Developer; Project Manager; Facilitator; Trauma-Informed Decolonizing Anti-Oppression Certified Executive Coach. She is a project manager and ICF certified coach with 15 years of progressive experience in association operations, conference planning and change management. Maria is the VP of the Board at WAVAW and provides pro bono leadership training and coaching to youth in transition. Maria is fluent in English and Tagalog (Filipino).

Linda Pitt

Originally from Perth, Australia, Linda completed the theatre performance program at Simon Fraser University. She also holds a Masters in International Arts Management through Southern Methodist University, HEC Montreal and SDA Bocconi. Linda has worked as a producer, administrator, and marketer with companies such as The Frank Theatre Company, Pi Theatre, Resounding Scream Theatre, and The Arts Club Theatre Company. She is passionate about digital marketing in the arts, theatre education, and supporting artists through sustainable administrative practices.

Type C Consulting

Type C Consulting is a full-service, multidisciplinary creative and communications agency for organizations seeking creative digital solutions to help them make a conscious change in the world. Our tagline is “Do It Once, Do It Right” because — well — we believe in setting our clients up for long-term success, not a short-term fix. We have a tendency to tell it like it is, and we help our clients do the same.