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Title: Interview with Kim McLean
Description: Interview with a woman who was formerly a part the senior executive leadership team at utsc, she recounts her work in helping build the pan/am center serving as the chief administrator officer. Additon to this she talks in depth about her experiences being a young mother with a demanding career.
Subject: Buildings, Campus growth, Employment, Facilities, Parenthood, Women

Title: Interview with Amorell Saunders N'Daw
Description: Amorell Saunders N'Daw describes her work in administration at UTSC and living in Scarborough. She discusses her life journey, including growing up with fewer advantages and overcoming challenges while also trying to be a good parent to her kids. She also speaks about the relationship between UTSC and the surrounding community, how she envisions that UTSC will continue to grow and change, and how she may participate in the future of the Scarborough community.
Subject: Culture, Diversity, Ethnicity, Leadership, Parenthood, Race

Title: Interview with Sharon Laidford
Description: Sharon Laidford reflects on her time living with her family and the independently in the Malvern community. She specifically discusses her experience with the Women’s Place and the sense of community and empowerment it has given her. She notes the changes she has witnessed in Malvern over the years regarding its transportation and infrastructure while also noting how Malvern could change for the better in the future.
Subject: Community, Parenthood, Transportation, Women, Women's Place

Title: Interview with Carolyn Ferns
Description: Carolyn Ferns talks about her position as the policy and government relations coordinator at the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care. She expands on the liberatory view of education involved in the realm of early childhood education and how it can be improved through politics and public policy. Carolyn discusses collaboration with other childcare organizations when working on initiatives surrounding the provincial budget and Childcare Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. In doing do, Carolyn also touches upon the ways in which these childcare organizations interact with and are impacted by the federal and provincial government.
Subject: Activism, Parenthood, Education, Poverty