Park People’s Executive Director, Erika Nikolai, has been honoured with the Distinguished Individual Award from World Urban Parks—an international recognition that celebrates her leadership and the growing national movement Park People has helped build here in Canada.
Why are events in parks important? How do grants fit into Park People’s larger goals for creating change in city parks?
The emerging stream of the Park People Nature Connect Fund provides up to $5,000 to grassroots and registered organizations across Canada that connect people with nature, foster ecological stewardship, and restore urban parks and green spaces.
The scaling stream of the Park People Nature Connect Fund offers up to $20,000 to registered organizations across Canada that connect people with nature while fostering ecological stewardship and restoring urban parks.
Learn more about green social prescribing, an evolving practice that encourages individuals to reestablish connections with nature and one another to enhance their mental, physical, and social wellbeing.
A reflection on the BEING BLACK IN PUBLIC Survey Report, exploring how Black communities experience parks and public spaces, and what fosters joy and belonging.
How do we build a healthier, greener, more joyful Toronto? We start at the park. Discover how communities across the city have transformed their green spaces over the past fifteen years. Then roll up your sleeves and help shape what comes next.
By donating to Park People, you’ll support vibrant parks for everyone.
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Vice Chair
Seana has over 30-years of experience working at the intersection of community-based participatory engagement, environmental sustainability, and social justice. She is a founding team member behind the development of Evergreen Brick Works into a showcase of industrial heritage adaptive reuse and a hub for applied urban sustainability. Seana has served in executive positions with innovative and entrepreneurial non-profit change making organizations including Evergreen and the Centre for Social Innovation, in addition to working in both the public and private sectors.
She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in environmental studies and watershed ecosystem planning and in 2021 Seana began a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Social Research at Trent University where she is examining the relationship between industrial heritage redevelopment projects and gentrification. An active volunteer, Seana has served on several boards including Park People, The Centre for Social Innovation, The Stop Community Food Centre, the equality effect, The Sustainability Network and Wanapitei Wilderness Centre.