A community advocate shares her personal experience of transforming hatred into allyship, and how her understanding of allyship informs her advocacy           

Veronica Merryfield

• Cape Breton Transgender Network, founder

• Cape Breton Center for Sexual Health, chair of board

• Every Woman's Center, chair of board

• Conversion Therapy Survivors Connect, chair of board

• Marion Bridge Primary Schools Advisory Committee chair

• Cross organizational committee on sexual abuse and violence member

• Cape Breton Pride Society, director of education

• Nova Scotia Intersex Support Network, founder

• Cape Breton Bereaved Families diversity board member

• Department of Community Service, Status of Women Advisory Council member