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HOW WE BUILDUCATE
Speaking, Facilitation and Engagements
Builducate comes to life through conversation, collaboration and community. Through speaking, facilitation, research and partnership, we bring lived, cultural, community and professional knowledge into conversation; creating space to challenge assumptions, deepen understanding and explore what belonging can look like in practice.
Featured Engagements
Accessibility is Also Cultural
TIME Educators Conference · Ghana International School
International Seminar, 2026
Exploring how culture shapes the ways disability, learning, family engagement and belonging are understood and experienced within educational communities.
Holding What Holds Us
Black African Feminisms Conference
International Conference Presentation, 2026
Bringing sibling caregiving and lived experience into conversation with Black feminist thought, while examining family and community knowledge as meaningful ways of knowing.
Building What's Missing
SAAAC SPARKS Incubator
Guest Speaker , 2026
A personal reflection on the journey from lived experience and sibling caregiving to entrepreneurship; and what can emerge when we listen to community before we build.
Builducate In Conversation
Where Story Meets Knowledge
Storytelling is one of the ways we Builducate. Watch a moment from Johanna’s presentation at the Black African Feminisms Conference, where lived experience, sibling caregiving and family knowledge come into conversation with Black feminist thought.
Black African Feminisms Conference, 2026
Featured In Print
A Love Letter to Fellow Dreamers
Spotlight Feature 2026
A personal reflection on sisterhood, caregiving and the experiences that shaped Builducate; exploring how family, culture and lived experience become sources of knowledge.
Collaboration In Practice
Cultural Collaboration and Facilitation
Collaborating at the intersection of accessibility, community participation and culturally grounded experiences.
Cultural Care Leadership Retreat - Co-Facilitation
Led the “Leader as Teacher” learning block during Saccae Studio’s Cultural Care Leadership Retreat, inviting City of Toronto executive leaders to explore the workplace as a neurodivergent classroom and rethink accessible leadership practices.
Training and Facilitation
Collaboration across entrepreneurship, disability, community engagement and knowledge-sharing, including Builducate’s involvement with the SPARKS Incubator Program.
Facilitation and Consultation
Contributing disability and family-centred perspectives to programming created with and for Black families locally and internationally.
Curriculum Co-Development and Facilitation
Collaborating around disability, Caribbean culture and community experiences that create space for participation, connection and belonging.
Research, Writing, and Knowledge Translation
Developed a full draft of CEE’s 10-year impact report, bringing together organizational data, program outcomes and community impact to tell the story of a decade of work supporting young Black professionals.