In today’s episode of Around the Table, my collaborator Leslie Williams and I are in conversation with Jennifer Hawkins, a community health organizer and researcher who was part of a dinner dialogue project called New Matrix Meals. This was a partnership with Chilliwack’s Pacific Community Resources Society in 2017, that focused on reducing stigma about substance use through meal sharing in people’s homes. It was part of a series of dialogue projects led by the Centre for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria.

BIO

Jennifer Hawkins loves to dig her hands and mind in spaces and places where research intersects with community development. In her current role as Senior Project Manager, Community-based Research at UBC’s Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes, she works alongside multi-sectoral collaboratives forwarding transformative work, particularly on issues surrounding substance use. Jen is blessed to live in Tse’elxwéyeqw (Chilliwack, British Columbia), and whenever she can, she’ll be outdoors with the family dog and her human family and friends.

RESOURCES

Link to New Matrix Meals article.

Transcript available here.