Lorraine Lam
She/Her | Board Member At Large
Lorraine is a believer in cultivating hope-filled community in different spaces, deeply believing that a better future is possible. In her work in music, speaking, writing, and organizing, she asks the question, “what do hope, justice, liberation, and faith practically look like in our day-to-day?" Her work is primarily in housing and homelessness, crisis intervention & de-escalation, and case management. She operates out of a harm-reduction and trauma-informed framework. She is currently an Outreach Worker & Case Manager at Regent Park Community Health Centre, Community Consultant for the Queen Street West Business Improvement Association, and volunteers as the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Advocacy coordinator with Women Speakers Collective. She organizes in Toronto with Shelter Housing Justice Network, and is actively involved in local advocacy and action, co-conspiring with other justice-pursuers in Canada. Lorraine recently co-wrote a chapter in Displacement City (University of Toronto Press), released in November 2022. As a settler-immigrantChinese-Canadian living on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishnawbe, & Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations, Lorraine is learning what it means to honour these ancestries, and her own ancestry in right way.