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Symposium: Carmen Lansdowne
Nov 17, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Knox Graduate History Students’ Semi-Annual Symposium welcomes
the Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne
Presenting:
“I am because we are: the (beautiful) indigenous wisdom of Viola Cordova at the convergence of multiple crises”
November 17, 2021, 4:00pm EST, via Zoom
Registration required at mj.perry@mail.utoronto.ca; Zoom link will be provided to all who register.
Carmen is the compassionate, thoughtful, and creative Executive Director of First United Church Community Ministry Society and First United Church Social Housing Society. She tends to take on large projects and extend herself in many directions, largely (although not always) pulling it off while maintaining academic interests, church ministry, indigenous way of being, parenting and partnering. Carmen joined First United in February 2017 and has led an organizational turnaround resulting in increased stability and capacity.
She currently sits on the boards of the Vancouver Foundation and the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre. She also chairs the national Indigenous Candidacy Board for the United Church of Canada, supporting Indigenous and non-Indigenous candidates for ministry in Indigenous contexts. She has previously served on the Pension Board of The United Church of Canada (UCC), Executive of the UCC’s General Council, as United Church representative to the Executive and Central Committees of the World Council of Churches, and the Theology, Inter-church, Interfaith committee
of the UCC. Carmen holds a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA and is a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation. She is passionate about creating a life with great stories and amazing adventures with her family.