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Shirley-Pat Chamberlain Profile

Dubbed the ‘original champion spark plug’ by His Honour, Steven L. Point, the 28th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, Shirley-Pat Chamberlain (nèe Gale) is a passionate literacy advocate and is honoured to act as co-lead with Bob Blacker for Write to Read BC. Shirley-Pat is a woman of mixed heritage and is Tl’esqox na whelh deni heelen (adoptee of Tl’esqox). She brings over 20 years of leadership, community planning and development, fund development, grant writing, project management, facilitation, teaching, and mentorship. Shirley-Pat is a proud member of the Rotary Club of Steveston and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award in 2012 for outstanding volunteerism.

Shirley-Pat has built strong and meaningful relationships with each Indigenous community or Nation that she has had the privilege and honour of working across the Pacific Northwest as well as non-Indigenous organizations, communities, and governments. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh.

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Shirley-Pat Chamberlain Interview

As promised – here is the WHCTV spot on Rotary Making a Difference with DG Dave Mangs. It is always a honour to share my passion about Rotary International and the Write to Read Project – to tell My Rotary Story ??

Check out www.rotary.org and find out how you can Get Involved with this amazing organization!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=S8YnuQrC_ic

Top W2R volunteer off to university

Toosey 5Shirley-Pat Chamberlain from the Williams Lake Daybreak Rotary Club has been a top volunteer for Write to Read in the Cariboo region, assisting with the development of libraries in several First Nations communities. While it is bad news that W2R will be losing her services, the great news is that she has been accepted at prestigious Edinburgh University for a PHD in Interdisciplinary Studies. The interesting thing is that Shirley-Pat’s thesis will be focussed on the Write to Read Project and what effect it has made to communities, relationships with aboriginal peoples in British Columbia.

Many people have remarked that the Write to Read Project is a “blueprint” that can be copied in other Canadian provinces, and also in other aboriginal communities around the world. Literacy is always the first step towards self-determination. Here is hoping that Shirley-Pat’s thesis will go a long way towards creating a written version of that blueprint, to be copied everywhere!