For Liz Clarke, the hardest thing about growing up in social housing with a single mother wasn't living in poverty, it was the lack of a guide. There was never anybody around who really wanted to see me just blossom." "I'm working on a program right now to help, especially, black youth who are struggling, who are looking for opportunity and who are looking for that healing," Clarke says. Creating a safe place for marginalized folks to be heard is something Clarke knows she'll be doing for a long time to come. I'm not doing this for me; I'm doing it for the young people, I'm doing it so that they can get to their next best."

Source: CBC News March 26, 2019 15:56 UTC