Earlier this afternoon, VanRamblings attended the Erin Arnold campaign launch for Vancouver School Board, at Kitsilano’s General Gordon elementary school, where she is a Parent Advisory Committee member, and where her son Keegan attends Grade 5, today’s launch in support of Ms. Arnold’s bid to win a Vision Vancouver nomination for School Board.
At present, there are six candidates seeking a Vision Vancouver nomination for School Board. The nominating meeting to choose Vision’s 2018 candidates for School Board will take place this upcoming Sunday, July 8th.
On the front page of Erin Arnold’s campaign website, Ms. Arnold writes …
“I spend a lot of time working on communities, bringing together as many different people with unique voices and experiences to find common ground and make the world a safer, stronger place for all of us.
Since 1998 I have worked for various ministries including Attorney General, Public Safety and Solicitor General, Children and Family Development, and Public Services Agency of BC. I also hold a certificate in complex trauma and child sexual abuse intervention, an undergraduate degree in Child and Youth Care Counselling, and have over 18 years of facilitation, victim services, and trauma based work experience. I have managed multi-year government contracts and assisted in drafting public policy on various progressive issues.
Difficult conversations will need to be navigated at the school board, and new voices will need to be represented. I have waded through many difficult conversations in my professional life, including as a Victim Services Program Manager, Family Services Social Worker, and Foster Home Recruitment Project Manager. Indeed, I’m not one to shy away from the tough conversations and I have a demonstrated ability to make wide changes at the municipal and other levels of government.”
Erin Arnold is Vice-President of David Eby’s Vancouver Point Grey NPD riding association, in addition to her work with the federal Vancouver Quadra NDP riding association. VanRamblings has worked with Ms. Arnold on all three of David Eby’s campaigns for office, where she played a key role, and on Scott Andrews’ 2015 Vancouver Quadra federal NDP campaign for office, where her humanity and people skills shone, where she was a daily inspiring presence, hard working, friendly and well-organized each and every day. To say that we’re over-the-moon with the announcement of Erin’s candidacy for School Board is to dramatically understate the matter.
VanRamblings wholeheartedly endorses Erin Arnold for School Board, as we know her to be an articulate, community-involved advocate for children, a woman of conscience, and a true community advocate and activist.
Support community activist & child advocate, Erin Arnold, for School Board trustee
