As Dave Harvey retires from his co-leadership position at Park People, he reflects on the incredible journey since founding the organization in 2011.
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.
The programs offers community members from equity-deserving neighbourhoods training and coaching to help them enhance or transform vacant or underused spaces into public green areas.
A guidance and resources to measure the impact of your park work on community health and wellbeing, integrating a social equity lens.
Meet the Ontario Community Changemakers and learn more about their inspiring initiatives transforming parks across the province.
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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.