2026 birthMONTH… and the alignments continue.

As a Canadian I’ve long admired Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership—especially his commitment to feminist foreign policy and the bold move to back it with a $300 million investment in the establishment of the Equality Fund—a long-term investment in women’s rights organizations around the world, especially those working at the grassroots level. The kind of work that often goes unseen, underfunded, but changes everything.

But admiration from afar is one thing.

Meeting him, standing in that moment, and sharing directly how those decisions have mattered… that was a whole other level of I-can’t-believe-I’m-in-this-conversation!!

This was a reminder that the work we do travels farther than we see—and sometimes, it brings us face to face with the very people who inspired it.

And with that, I close out birthMONTH 2026—grounded in alignment, walking in fulfillment, and anchored in the knowing that honing what has been entrusted to me—my skills, my talents, my gift—creates access. It opens doors, makes room, and carries me into the spaces I’m meant to occupy.

2026 All Rights Reserved

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In creative solidarity, Dee