Our Team

Andrea (she/her) is a chronically-ill, queer femme, community organizer, and nonprofit consultant who believes rest and joy are as important as advocacy. Over the past decade, she has worked at the intersections of sex worker safety, housing, food security, and LGBTQ2S+ inclusion. Her work with BC BDAR is deeply informed by her lived experiences and her commitment to community led care. 

Courtney Demone (she/any) is a white settler trans femme grateful to be living and working on the ancestral and unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sel̓íl̓witulh, and kwikwəƛ̓ əm Nations in so-called Burnaby, BC.

Courtney feels wildly fortunate to join the BC BDAR project as Research Lead. She has varied lived experience relating to this project and looks forward to continuing to engage with and support her community in this role. Aside from that, she has experience as a designer in the tech industry, and as a facilitator of workshops and drop-ins at various community organizations.

Fostering community and connection in an increasingly disconnected and individuated colonialist-capitalist society is a fundamental principle that drives Courtney’s work, and she strives to center anti-oppressive and decolonizing values in her practice.