SDF’s Festival of Learning and Development 2022
Date: 14, 15 and 16th November 2022
Venue: SDF Zoom and AdvanceHE connect
Jonathan Orr
Jonathan Orr is a Project Manager at BCampus. He has worked on multiple projects for BCcampus that have sought to centre the lived and living experience of equity deserving communities in the pursuit of innovative solutions to complex structural issues.
These projects employed a collaborative leadership approach to tackle issues such as harm reduction, overdose prevention, peer work, anti-racism anti-hate, equity-diversity-inclusion and disability justice.
Prior to working at BCcampus, Jonathan worked in Vancouver’s downtown Eastside where he managed two of North America’s first peer run Overdose Prevention Sites.
Jonathan is the co-creator of the pioneering peer-taught overdose prevention Street Degree program which empowered peers to teach about community approaches to the fentanyl posing crisis.
With thanks to Jonathan Orr for supporting the SDF’s Festival of Learning and Development 2022