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About: Penny Goldsmith



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Anti-poverty community worker

Executive Co-ordinator, PovNet

Website: http://povnet.org

Blog: Percolating

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Profile: Penny Goldsmith, British Columbia social justice advocate and PovNet Society’s Executive Co-ordinator since July 1997.



Project

Humanizing Technology: The PovNet Story. I am working on a book about PovNet that came out of the Carold Institute fellowship and the interviews that I did with front line workers during the time that I had off from my day-to-day work at PovNet.


Short Biography

Anti-poverty community worker for over thirty years, as an advocate, as a writer of public legal education materials in plain language, and since 1997 as the co-ordinator of PovNet, an online information resource, communication network and teaching tool for anti-poverty front line workers and poor and otherwise marginalized people. I maintain a strong commitment to continuing to be part of a network that builds accessible and affordable online communities. I am also the owner of a small publishing house, Lazara Press, which publishes and distributes progressive books and posters.


Awards

Alan Thomas Fellowship, 2008


Organization

PovNet, Building an online anti-poverty community

Job Title: Executive Co-ordinator

Organization Address:
610-1140 Pender St W
Vancouver, BC
V6E 4N8
Canada


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