Take your place at the table for a delicious Kitchen Table Talk about inclusion, diversity & community growth.
About This Event
Take your place at the table and join Mayor Bernadette Clement for a delicious Kitchen Table Talk about inclusion, diversity, and community growth. During our main course, we’ll be sinking our teeth into how these themes are key to entrepreneurship, business growth, collaboration, and creating a welcoming community. Joining the mayor are two individuals who know a lot about these topics.
Tareq Hadhad arrived in Canada as a Syrian refugee in 2015 and is now the founder and CEO of incredibly successful, Peace by Chocolate. After his family’s Syrian home and chocolate factory were destroyed in 2012, they sought safety in other countries. A former medical student and long-time peacekeeping advocate, a new life began when Tareq and his family were welcomed to Canada on a community-based sponsorship. Passionate about peace and entrepreneurship, his family relaunched the family business to recreate the chocolates they once exported across the middle east and their story turned into an internationally-inspiring phenomenon. In 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opened his speech to the United Nations Leaders’ Summit on Refugees detailing the family’s success story. Tareq, himself, has spoken at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Conference, TEDx events, Chambers of Commerce dinners, keynote presentations in Jamaica and London England and spoken to several corporate and government organizations. He has done over 500 interviews with different news teams across the globe. Tareq speaks on the compelling story of his family, the positive impact of Syrian newcomers and the spirit of entrepreneurship.
In addition to Ren Navarro’s fervent love of the craft beer world, is her determination to bring it to a more diverse audience. Navarro is on the frontlines to initiate change both in and out of the industry. For over six years she has been regarded as one of the most respected members in the industry, spending much of those years in the field as a sales representative for renowned and award-winning breweries. She is co-founder and former co-organizer of the Society of Beer Drinking Ladies, a Toronto-based monthly beer event that provides a safe and relaxing atmosphere for female-identified people. Additionally, using her perspective as a queer black woman within the industry, she has talked extensively about diversity in craft beer as a panelist at the 2019 Craft Brewers Conference in Denver, CO along with constant appearances at workshops, conferences, talks and in various forms of media, from podcasts, television and radio shows to newspapers. With her extensive knowledge in craft beer, passionate drive, and hilarious wit, Ren Navarro is here to educate, enlighten, and make craft beer approachable for a more diverse audience.
IMPORTANT DETAILS:
This is a FREE event thanks to our event partners.
Seating is LIMITED. Be sure to register at the link provided so we know to set a place for you at the table. Clicking ‘interested’ or ‘going’ to this FB event does help spread the word, but does not reserve your seat.
5:30pm - Reception with appetizers and cash bar.
7pm - Kitchen Table Talk
7:45pm - Audience Q&A