Facilitators
Ms. Kerry Woodland
Workshop Facilitator
Mentorship orientation (Mentees)
Kerry Woodland is the Director of Service Delivery with Boys and Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton & Area. She has worked with the agency for over 28 years. She currently oversees the programming for approximately 3700 children and youth in the community. She understands the value of volunteerism and bringing together caring adult role models into the lives of children and youth through mentoring relationships or through quality after school programs.
Kerry has a passion for mentoring and believes that every young person who needs a mentor should have one.
Dr. Sentsetsa Pilane
Workshop Facilitator
Mentorship orientation (Mentors)
Sentsetsa is a mother, grandmother, scientist, a passionate educator, mentor and life-long learner who believes in and uses strength-based humanizing approaches to create opportunities for meaningful empowerment and adaptability. Dr. Pilane has over 30 years’ experience as an educator and advisor at secondary and tertiary institutions, First Nations schools and not for profit organizations.
She has worked extensively on Out of School Time youth programming development, implementation and evaluation. In her work she continues to amplify to co-creation and celebration of community strengths, resilience building, reciprocal co-learning, mentoring, coaching and creating inclusive environments, with the communities that she engages not only for us human beings to humanize each other, also to support children, youth and families from diverse backgrounds. She is passionate about social justice, poverty eradication and ensuring that we co-create opportunities where we All live a life of dignity. Dr. Pilane has held different roles in the not-for-profit sector that she works with, including working as Program Development Coach and lately as Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Strategy Lead with Boys and Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters Society of Edmonton.