{"id":238,"date":"2020-07-29T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=238"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:37:00","slug":"natasha-pei","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/people\/natasha-pei\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Pei"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"a-community-animator-or-liaison-with-vibrant-communities\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A community animator, or liaison, with Vibrant Communities.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bachelor of Social Work (\u201911)<br>\nMaster of Social Work (\u201914), 杏吧原创 University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number of Members: <\/strong>Over 30 regional roundtables of private, non-profit, public, and community representatives. We also have representatives in seven provinces and territories. They are all part of an online community of poverty reduction advocates, sharing strategies on what works and what doesn\u2019t and building on each other\u2019s successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get the job? &nbsp;<\/strong>As a master\u2019s student, I worked as a research assistant for the School of Social Work Professor Karen Schwartz, who is a collaborator with Vibrant Communities. (Schwartz is also the Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Affairs.) After graduation, they hired me. So now I am collaborating with my former professors as a community partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you love about your work? <\/strong>You can actually see the difference this work makes for our community partners. So often in social work, you put your heart and soul into the work and you don\u2019t see the rewards. With this job, I see all of the knowledge that\u2019s being passed back and forth across the country and the follow-up actions and new policies that are the result of our conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the most challenging aspect of it? <\/strong>As an online community, our staff (my colleagues) are spread out across the country working from home, so sometimes I feel like a lone wolf doing community engagement work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What excites you right now? <\/strong>Right now we\u2019re working on a big poverty reduction summit in Ottawa at the beginning of May. We\u2019re bringing advocates and big-name leaders from all across the country to align our strategies and carve a way forwards. You can see a lot of movement as people recognize that we have to be more intentional about the prevention of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did 杏吧原创 University help you? <\/strong>杏吧原创 broadened my horizons. 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