She has cited the Diggers movement of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England as a source of influence. As an adult educator, she helped develop a course on grassroots leadership development and wrote two influential books on consciousness-raising, anti-oppression organizational change and allyship. In the summer of 1987, she joined Henson College at Dalhousie University as the coordinator of the Community Development and Outreach Unit. In the 1980s she helped organize a union of workers (predominantly women) at a local fish plant in Pictou County where she worked. Bishop was later one of the commissioners (along with Pat Kearns and Lucien Royer) who worked on the People's Food Commission, which was a participatory research project that held hearings across Canada in 1979 on issues of food security. Her studies introduced her to social analysis and collective approaches to education. She briefly attended the University of Toronto's Centre for Christian Studies in the 1970s with the intent to join the United Church of Canada as a Deaconess. She also worked for the Nova Scotia Public Service in the area of diversity and employment equity as well as food security issues within Canada. Anne Bishop is a Canadian lesbian activist, educator, grassroots organizer and LGBT rights advocate.Īnne Charlotte Bishop is an activist, author, educator, food security advocate, labour organizer, and community development worker.īishop has worked over thirty years in the field of international development and engaged in social justice movements.
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