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Caroline White is a community-based social-justice trainer and educator based out of Vancouver, B.C. In 1991 she began working as Education Coordinator at the Kitchener-Waterloo Sexual Assault Support Centre in Ontario where she instructed on male violence against women, dating violence, child sexual assault, sexual harassment, dissociation, anti-racism, and oppression. In 1994 she initiated policies and training to support transgendered people who have experienced sexual and interpersonal violence. In 2000, White became a member of the Trans Alliance Society and the Women/Trans Dialogue Planning Committee, a grassroots project out of Vancouver, B.C. to foster dialogue between transgendered people and trans-exclusionary women’s groups. It was through this Committee that White met Joshua Mira Goldberg, her frequent collaborator in articles and policy guides. White received her M.A. in Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia in 2002. In 2005, White was employed by the Justice Institute of B.C. (JIBC) as Program Coordinator at the Centre for Leadership and Community Learning. She later became Program Director at the Centre for Counselling and Community Safety. She won the President’s Award at JIBC’s 2015 Awards of Excellence ceremony for her contributions towards their vision of “safer communities and a more just society.”