Michelle Hak Hepburn (she/her) is a parent, postsecondary educator, and enthusiastic manager of an adult soccer team. In all of these roles, she’s skilled at finding common ground in seemingly opposite viewpoints and helping people recognize when they’re on the same team.
Currently, Michelle works in postsecondary education, where she brings people together to advance sustainability teaching, learning and engagement . In the past, she delivered climate change workshops in high schools across nine BC school districts, as well as organizing community gardening classes, an extension of her lifelong interest in plants and urban biodiversity.
With two kids of her own in one of New West’s overcrowded schools, Michelle is keen to find alternatives to the stuffy and hot portable classrooms many students are stuck with. She’d also like to reduce the traffic congestion so common at school drop-off by finding more sustainable ways for kids to get to school, whether that’s designating safe walkways, or arranging reliable bus service for students from Queensborough.
Ease of transportation is actually one of Michelle’s favourite parts of living in New West. “I can walk to everything I need - including Latin American grocery stores for special ingredients to make Peruvian food at home. And on the street, everybody says hello.”
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