Women and Water

MICHELLE MUNGALL / MLA NELSON-CRESTON
www.michellemungall.ca
Michelle Mungall is the youngest woman serving in the B.C. legislature, and the first woman ever elected to the Nelson riding. She chairs the NDP Opposition Women's Caucus and sits on the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services.In the summer of 2009, Mungall fought with families and businesses in the Kootenays to protect the Glacier-Howser watershed from industrial development. This pristine wilderness area was threatened by what locals call "ruin-of-river" development - private power projects that fragment habitat and devastate freshwater fish stocks.For Mungall and her constituents, losing these creeks to private interests was not an option, and they effectively shut down the project for a year. As the battle for public water continues Mungall and her guests will continue to inspire and inform.

GWEN BARLEE / WESTERN CANADA WILDERNESS COMMITTEE
www.wildernesscommittee.org
Gwen came to the Wilderness Committee in 2001 with a background in political science and a passion for environmental and social advocacy. Her diverse education and experience includes social work, film production, and web development, and she is a past executive team member of the Victoria chapter of the Council of Canadians. Today, Gwen is the Wilderness Committee's Policy Director, and a member of the executive team. Although her focus has been on species at risk, Gwen is also active in resource policy and parks campaigns, and she can be found working passionately on almost any issue the Wilderness Committee is involved with. Here is a video clip of Gwen working to save BC's wild rivers.

KAREN SANDER / OBAKKI FOUNDATION
www.obakkifoundation.org
Karen Sander is the Director of Development at the Obakki Foundation and her work involves program strategy development and implementation. Previously she worked at the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group, in Washington DC. She holds a Masters of Global Political Economy from the University of Sussex in the UK. Karen has had the unique opportunity to work at both ends of the international development spectrum, first with a large multilateral foundation and then with a small high-impact and results driven foundation. This has enabled her to appreciate the true value in being hands on with her work from beginning to end and actually working collaboratively with recipients.

LANA GAY / HOST, CBC RADIO 3
www.radio3.cbc.ca
Lana Gay is CBC Radio 3's music and pop culture maven. Her show ‘Lanarama’ is simulcast daily from 2-5pm PT on Sirius 86 and CBCRadio3.com. She is fixated on independent Canadian music and enjoys blogging about oddities, technology and food culture. She won the ‘'Most Likely to Save the World'’ award in high school, and knows the value of a cold beer, an old record and a sassy pair of boots. A humanitarian at heart, Lana has traveled to Haiti three times to volunteer in local hospices where she experienced first-hand the importance of freshwater and advocating for sustainable water resources.

AZITA ARDAKANI / LOVESOCIAL
www.lovesocial.org
Azita Ardakani is the 25 year old founder of Lovesocial; a social media agency based out of Vancouver with international clients. Azita has worked on the “Summit on the Summit” campaign around the global clean water crisis as well as Oscar nominated documentary “Gasland”, focused on the threatening affects of hydraulic fracturing. With an eager mandate of "connecting people with things that matter" Lovesocial strives to continue using social media for action orientated change as well as helping corporations communicate using these 2.0 vessels.