Emily Wagner, MSc (She/her)
Grant Writing & Fund Development
Grant Writing & Fund Development
Emily Wagner (she/her) lives and works on the stolen and occupied ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples, colonially known as Vancouver. She identifies as a cis-gender White woman and an uninvited settler on these lands. Emily is joining the Changemark team and will be working alongside client partners on strategic planning initiatives, funding proposals, and to facilitate collaborative partnerships with clients, community organizations, health authorities, and government. She will also provide additional support in identifying jobs, developing proposals, and working with contractors, and will be our official internal engagement lead, keeping team members apprised of opportunities, trainings, and events, and creating amazing spaces for contractors to connect!
Emily has over 20 years' experience working in various research, education, and advocacy roles in the academic, healthcare, and not-for-profit sectors, spanning basic science, clinical trials, infectious diseases, obstetrics + gynaecology, sexual health, mental heath and substance use. Her areas of expertise include scientific writing, organizational management, and fund development. Most recently, she held the role of Executive Director at Community Action Initiative (CAI), where she led a diverse team through a period of uncertainty and change, cultivated radical shifts in CAI’s approach to community grant making, and secured a five-fold increase in provincial funding for community-led mental health and substance use programs in just one year (total investment $33.5M).
Her interests include deconstructing traditional models and meanings of work, digital activism and movement of opinion, and genuinely being curious about almost everything.
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