Boma Brown, 26, Support Network for Indigenous Women & Women of Colour founder Brown, who’s of Nigerian descent and previously lived in Botswana and in the U.S., has been in Victoria for six years. And in 2014 she founded the Support Network for Indigenous Women & Women of Colour, hoping to support other women experiencing the same possible feelings of isolation. ( Supplied by Gillian Worley )After three years in Victoria, Worley said she sincerely loves the city. ( Supplied by Kaitlin Ruether )Ruether moved to Toronto this fall after five years in Victoria. Petrescu added that, in some ways, she found Victoria to be the best place for women — dubbed ‘Chicktoria’ by some for its high female population numbers.

Source: thestar October 18, 2017 02:03 UTC