Episode #14 with Bridget Graham from MEOPAR

On this week’s episode of Sustainable Stories, we chat about the connection between sustainability, women’s health and rights, and our personal connection to creating change. How can we connect our passion for creating a better world through our personal life and work? Understanding and using an intersectional lens in our sustainability work is critical to creating change that supports the planet, and all people. Bridget is also committed to learning new languages and believes that this is important to understanding the world, and the environment, through a variety of lenses. Bridget’s path to the work that she does is anything bu typical. She has a degree in sustainability and her Master’s degree was in History, she has worked in environment and sustainability, and reproductive health and rights, and academia, and almost everything in between. Her story and her passion are inspiring.

Bridget Graham (she/her) (@novavitaedoula and (@girlinpearls) is an labour and birth, postpartum, and abortion doula living in Mi’kma’ki. Bridget is also the Operations Manager at MEOPAR - Marine Environmental Observation Prediction & Response network. At her core, Bridget loves supporting people, projects and causes that matter to her. Bridget is the Volunteer Coordinator for Abortion Support Services Atlantic (ASSA), and a Board Member for the Nova Scotia Women’s History Society and the Nova Scotia Doula Association (NSDA). She is also an active volunteer and advisor for the Alpha Eta collegiate and alumni chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta. Her interests include gardening, baking, canning, cooking, knitting and quilting. A fun fact about Bridget is that she once spent five weeks living with Jenna in a 2 person tent on the Arctic tundra!