Introducing this week’s Woman of the Week, Claire Michela!
When asked what leadership means to her, she says:
“Leadership requires flexibility and openness. It requires taking responsibility for your actions, listening attentively, and responding to feedback. It requires taking risks. As a woman in leadership, the toughest aspect for me has been to learn how to speak up for myself and others and I’m still working to improve my skills. Now more than ever, women-identified people need to act radically by speaking truth to power.”
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Claire is from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario and graduated in 2013 with a B.A. Joint Honours in Women’s Studies and Anthropology. In 2014, she began working full-time at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) as the Student Affairs Coordinator. There, she played a role in developing and implementing a new program at McGill: Gender, Sexuality, Feminism and Social Justice Studies. At the same time, Claire began working with the Association of McGill University Support Employees (AMUSE), the union for Casual employees. She served as a Board member, then Labour Relations Officer of the union. Now, she is the President of AMUSE at this critical time of negotiations for Floor Fellows’ and Casuals’ Collective Agreements. Next year, Claire will attend law school to pursue a career in labour law.
