02/11/2026
WOW!!! I'm thrilled to share this with you all!
I’ve been nominated for the Peterbrough Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce Luminary Awards for Women in Business for the second year in a row.
This year, in the Building Belonging and Trailblazer categories. To be recognized again feels incredibly meaningful.
Thank you to the person/people who nominated me. That kind of support matters more than people realise.
When I think about why this nomination means so much, I always come back to the same thing. This work has always been about women.
Home care is built on the labour of women. And yet in traditional for profit models, PSWs are often underpaid, undervalued, and shut out of leadership. They are expected to do the work, not shape the system. That never sat right with me.
So instead of accepting that reality, I built something different.
As Founder and Executive Director of Home Care Workers Cooperative, Canada’s first woman-owned non-profit home care worker co op, I have had the privilege of watching PSWs step into ownership, governance, budgets, and real decision making. The talent and skill was always there. The leadership was always there. What was missing was the opportunity and the structure to support it.
That is what Building Belonging means to me. And that is what Trailblazing looks like in this sector.
HCWC works because of the women who run it. This nomination belongs to them.
We need more women building, more women leading, and more women lifting each other up instead of competing.
Let's keep rising up,
Let’s keep going. 💛
The Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce has unveiled the nominees for the 2026 Luminary Awards for Women in Business, celebrating women whose leadership, innovation and generosity are strengthening the community! 🏆
Visit ptbocanada .com for more info.
