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?
Explore inspiring community-led events funded by our microgrants program, from land-based learning to nature walks and skill-sharing workshops.
For years, Geri and Gary James drove an hour outside Toronto to find nature — not realizing one of the…
Ready to rally your crew and make a visible difference in your local park? This guide walks you through everything you need to host a successful community clean-up in Toronto
Explore key findings from five years of the Canadian City Parks Report, highlighting significant trends, issues, and practices shaping urban parks across the country.
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Lead Researcher at Monumental
Eunice is an award-winning urban designer, researcher, registered planner, and all-around curious person. As a lead researcher at Monumental, Eunice champions equity-centered approaches and analysis, advocates for diverse perspectives, and highlights the power of community voices in the city-building process. Before joining the Monumental team, Eunice brings over 8 years of experience in the industry, most recently at Perkins&Will as an associate and senior urban designer. They bring deep expertise in community engagement, land use planning, public realm design, transportation, and led various research efforts around gender equity, public health, and as host of the Inhabit podcast. Their community-centered approach to their work has been awarded a National Urban Design Award for Community Initiatives, an AIA Canada Award of Merit, a Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Award of Excellence, and an OPPI PlanON Public Education award. Eunice is always thinking about the human experience and opportunities for storytelling, balancing both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. They are passionate about intersections—in human identities, between planning and people, urbanism and nature… and literally the design of intersections. Eunice lives in Toronto with their partner and their very silly dog Peanut.