What is shoreline collaboratives?
Shoreline Collaboratives is a consultancy that supports small to midsize organizations to identify and address gaps between values and practice, in order to build intersectional spaces that reflect, serve, and are truly led by all members of our communities. As a collective, we work together to amplify the expertise and skills of our clients and partners through strengthening relationships, resourcing anti-oppression and equity work, training, coaching, policy, and peer exchange from the individual to the organizational level.
We focus on sharing and co-building skills, reflective practices, and structures into organizations and leaving them there. Our model builds tools for action within organizations from the individual to policy level; acknowledging that the culture of the organization is built by individuals, and that organizational policies and procedures must set the standard for equity and anti-racism.
Meet The Team
Erika Pulfer
is an indigiqueer/2spirit person of mixed nehiyaw (Plains Cree) and european settler ancestry, with treaty status and kinship ties at onihcikiskwapowin (Saddle Lake Cree Nation) in Treaty 6. She has been doing program development and evaluation, alongside anti-racism training and policy work using Indigenous methodologies in Tkaronto for over 12 years.
Nishan Zewge-Abubaker
is a second generation queer Ethiopian, born and raised in East York. She has worked in program development and evaluation of Black, youth-led, and grassroots organizations for over 8 years. Her areas of expertise include policy analysis, anti-oppression training, organizational capacity building, and strategic visioning.
Kavita Bissoondial
is a queer person of the Indo-Caribbean diaspora whose work is informed by growing up as a settler and guest in Scarborough, Ontario. She has been engaged in facilitation and consulting on anti-racism, gender, sexuality, and equity for well over a decade with grassroots, student, and social service organizations/nonprofits across the GTA and nationally.