Marilyn Waco, Executive Director of the Alberta Nurses Educational Trust (ANET), discusses her role in advancing nursing through education and research. ANET, a unique charity in Alberta, provides grants for continuing education, research, and scholarships to improve nursing practice and patient care. Marilyn highlights the importance of funding nursing projects with immediate healthcare impacts and shares inspiring stories of beneficiaries. She also addresses the challenges in nursing research funding and emphasizes the need for greater awareness and support for the profession.

After leaving a successful advertising career, Kate Grant set out to find work with deeper meaning. That search led her to a hospital in Ethiopia, where she witnessed women suffering from obstetric fistula—a preventable childbirth injury that had left them incontinent, isolated, and forgotten.

Moved to act, Kate joined the Fistula Foundation. What began as support for a single hospital has grown under her leadership into a network spanning 32 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia—restoring health, dignity, and hope to thousands of the world’s poorest women.

Join host Leah as she talks with Hilary, a Labrador Inuk nurse and policy analyst, about her journey in nursing, the importance of community, and advancing cultural safety in healthcare. Hilary shares insights on Indigenous leadership, overcoming challenges, and practical steps for creating more inclusive care. A powerful conversation on reconciliation and making a difference in Canadian health.

If you would like to learn more about Truth and Reconciliation and other Indigenous events please check out these links: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/indigenous-people/new-relationship/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-calls-to-action

https://www.cna-aiic.ca/en/news-events/upcoming-events/air-knowledge-sharing-event-2025

https://www.nccih.ca/634/Resources__Indigenous_Cultural_Safety,_Humility_and_Anti-racism.nccih?id=3973&col=3

https://www.healthcareexcellence.ca/en/events-and-opportunities/spotlight-series/2023-12-06-spotlight-series/