Spinal Cord Injury Ask an Expert: Ambulatory Forum | Navigating Employment

In this four part Ask the Expert Ambulatory Forum session, Nate Toevs, Eden Miller and Micaela Evans share some useful information on how to navigate finding employment and being employed.

BIOS:
Nate Toevs fills the role of Employer Outreach Developer at the Neil Squire Society. Utilizing his long standing background in Retail, Wholesale and Business to Business sales and marketing activities, he is tasked with educating businesses in BC about the program and how it benefits working and volunteering people in the province. Nate joined the NSS team in 2015 and loves the work in the community, and enjoys helping companies and people achieve all they can.

Micaela Evans is a disabled professional with a focus on equitable community building and broad systems change, and a strong knowledge of accessible marketing and communications practices. She has a BA in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Communications from SFU.

In addition, she has been an activist and advocate in disability communities for over a decade—working to improve representation, health care access, and accessible employment. As a person with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, she knows firsthand the challenges of finding work with a visible disability; and hopes through this work we can press forward with further opportunities for others in BC.

When she’s not working, Micaela can be found exploring Vancouver’s cafes and being a homebody with her partner, Yorkie, and kitten.


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0:00 -Intro
0:04 - Introduction of Nate Toevs, Eden Miller and Micaela Evans
2:07 - Start of Nate Toevs's presentation
8:24 - Start of Eden Miller's presentation
15:44- Start of Micaela's Evans's Presentation
25:16 -Q & A

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Spinal Cord Injury BC (SCI BC) is a non-profit organization that works to help people with spinal cord injuries and their families adjust, adapt, and thrive after life-changing injury or disease, through peer support and information resources. We operate in British Columbia, Canada. This session is part of our online peer support program which features social, fitness, educational, and entertaining sessions provided for people with SCI and similar disabilities. For more information, contact [email protected] or 1-800-689-2477 and check out our events calendar to get involved!: www.sci-bc.ca/events

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