Financial Literacy 101
Lobbying for Policy Change
Trish Garner - CCPATrish Garner is the Community Organizer of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition and the co-author of A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC. She gained her experience working with Raise the Rates, an anti-poverty group based in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. In 2008, she co-founded the Poverty Olympics, a community festival that highlighted the disparity between public spending on the Olympics and people living in poverty, and in 2010, she coordinated the Poverty Olympics Torch Relay around the province ending with an 100 km walk from Langley to Vancouver.
Samuel Raharjo - FLA
He became a Financial Counselor because he enjoys solving puzzles. Metaphorically speaking, achieving one's financial dream is like solving a puzzle game. We all have the necessary pieces of the puzzle, whether we have a wealth of assets or a humble nest egg to start out, and we want to piece them together in such a way that it creates the most accurate representation of the picture that matches our life goals. His objective is to see people's financial pictures come to fruition and appreciate it together with them.
Areas of Specialization:
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Insurance
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Critical Illness
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Disability
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Long Term Care
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Debt Management
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Business Continuation
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Guaranteed Investments
Post-Academia: Navigating the Job Market
Basics of Photoshop and Indesign
Facilitators and Workshop Content
Project Management
Effective Leadership
Public Speaking
Riley Iwamoto - My first trajectory out of high school (2002) was one in computer animation for film and video games which led me to a BFA in Media Arts at the Alberta College of Art and Design. By my 2007 graduation I had been exposed and drawn to a new direction in urban design, beginning with a second undergraduate experience in Urban Studies at the University of Calgary. This degree in the department of geography allowed me to develop, in addition to the academic capacities for planning and design, skills in GIS,formal lab reporting, and spatial planning to complement a visualization background. I have spent the time between this BA and my current MAP at SCARP working in research and graphical positions.