On October 30th, 2019 MIIPOC hosted the Race, Equity & Inclusion: Our Experiences as BIPOC Planners panel which dove deeply...
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The Mentorship Initiative for Indigenous and Planners of Colour
Prioritizing the growth of diverse urban minds
Experience the MIIPOC Mentorship Program and create invaluable connections that will help expand your planning knowledge and professional skills.
What We Do
MIIPOC’s Mentoring Program is a 6-month opportunity to build, grow, and enhance the capacity of the community of Black, Indigenous and Persons of Colour (BIPOC) in the field of urban, community, and regional planning. The objective is to create and foster trusting relationships between planners, planning students, and aspiring planners within a supportive space dedicated to mutual professional and personal development.
Key Aspects of MIIPOC
Create pathways for BIPOC to enter into a career in planning or support those transitioning from academia to work
Strengthen the presence of BIPOC in the field of planning and build a sense of community amongst BIPOC planners
Improve the influence of BIPOC in the field of planning and policy making
Who We Are
We are a team of free-thinking and multi-faceted urban planners who are dedicated to establishing critical connections between youth from marginalized communities, with planners well-established in their respective fields. Filling-in planning and professional knowledge gaps that are commonly observed amongst many BIPOC, due to unequal access to experiential learning opportunities within social, as well as economic institutions and systems.
Resources
Why is urban planning so white
The deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Abdirahman Abdi, Ejaz Choudry, and countless other tragedies have occurred in urban centres — the...
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The Faces of Planning
In 2019, a team of University of Toronto master’s in planning students sought to answer the question within the scope...
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