Chantelle Spicer, Campaign Manager with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, joins us to talk about how they are working toward systemic solutions to poverty, housing insecurity, affordability, food access, and inequality in our province.

Margaret Pfoh, Chief Executive Officer of Aboriginal Housing Management Association, joins us to talk about the importance of improving the availability and quality of culturally-appropriate Indigenous housing.

This week Jennifer Johnstone, President and CEO of Central City Foundation (Hope Dialogue's title sponsor) joins us to turn the tables on our usual host and interview Canadian broadcasting legend Don Shafer, who was recently awarded a PhD from the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice department at UBC.

Kathleen Leahy, Director of UBC Learning Exchange, joins us to talk about why low-income neighbourhoods are heavily researched, what impact this can have on community members and what ethical research practices look like in practice.

Irwin Oostindie, Director of Voor Urban Labs, joins us to talk about the lessons learned from the 2010 Olympics and the impacts that large events like the FIFA World Cup have on the host cities and the different communities within them.

Mary Clare Zak, Executive Director of SoleFoods Street Farms, joins us to talk about they create low-barrier employment opportunites by turning vacant urban land into street farms, as well as reflect on her decades working to help shape social change in our city.

Dr. Sarah Schulman, founder of InWithForward, joins us to discuss moving beyond traditional top-down policy-making and instead using ethnographic and participatory research methods to hear what people actually need.

Rowena Veylan, Founder of The New School of Fundraising, joins us to discuss why fundraising is under such strain and why investing in the people doing the work is so important.

Cory Douglas, a multidisciplinary Squamish Nation artist, architectural designer and cultural consultant, joins us to talk about how we all can benefit from looking at community planning and design through an Indigenous lens.

Amanda Burrows, Executive Director of First United, joins us to discuss how we can better support people in low-income neighbourhoods in improving their lives.