Professional Highlights
More than ten years experience working as a consultant and educator on queer and trans issues
Worked from 2016-2023 with the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity reaching thousands of educators, children, and youth across the country
Worked for four years with Rainbow Health Ontario teaching CME-accredited modules on gender identity and transition-related health care
Has a undergraduate degree in History from the University of Ottawa — so you know I’ve done the reading!
Has worked with large corporations, small businesses, community health centres, faith organizations, and everything in between
In ten years of working as an educator on queer and trans issues with a variety of demographics, I would summarize my approach to consulting in three words: personalized, interactive, and evidence-based. My undergrad taught me the critical thinking and research skills necessary to read widely but thoughtfully, and ten years of presenting have taught me to how to translate that information to different audiences in a way that is accessible and will resonate, whether you’re a church youth group or a Fortune 500 company. I use educational best practices, the latest research, and my love of storytelling to make complex concepts connect to both your personal relationships and your professional context.
A little more about Eliot…
Eliot is a self-described “gender bandit” living on the traditional territories of the Algonquin Anishnaabe (also known as Ottawa, Ontario) with two cats and too much coffee. Born in Kingston, ON and raised in a middle class family, Eliot feels strongly connected to their family roots in New Brunswick and has a heart for rural queer folks. Raised by traditionalist Christian parents, their early advocacy work was focused on faith spaces and the push for blessing same-sex marriages within the Anglican Church of Canada.
In 2016, Eliot entered the nonprofit sector, working with the internationally recognized Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Career highlights from that time period include the opportunity to provide workshops in every province (and one out of three territories!) and designing and leading a 1.1 million dollar project called Not Just the Tip, a national toolkit designed to make teaching sexuality education inclusive, intersectional, and inspiring.
Eliot also worked for four years as a contract educator with Rainbow Health Ontario, teaching CME-accredited modules on gender diversity and supporting the development of the Trans Health Knowledge Base, an accessible module for community members seeking information about transition.
After years of hustling from grant to grant in contract positions, Eliot has moved to providing direct consulting work with clients in a variety of backgrounds, but remains most passionate about work in educational and medical contexts. They remain active in community-focused projects, most recently as a regional advisory member for Community Based Research Centre (CBRC)’s Queering the Compass Project for sexual and reproductive health. They are also a Community Advisor for the University of British Columbia’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Queer Curriculum Advisory Committee (QCAC).
Eliot is a white settler of English and Christian descent, and strives to remain actively aware of the privilege that goes along with that. They work from an anti-oppressive and intersectional framework, but also acknowledge that they are always, and will always, be learning and unlearning the systems in which they were raised and can be complicit in. In other words: they get that the system is broken, and they’re trying very hard to make it better–but they’re also fully prepared to make mistakes, and be humble about that.
In their downtime, Eliot enjoys embroidery, adult colouring books, and marathoning true crime podcasts. They’d probably like to meet you.