Cicely Belle Blain

Cicely Belle Blain is an equity, diversity and inclusion consultant, activist and writer. In 2018, they founded Bakau Consulting (formerly Cicely Blain Consulting), a social-justice informed diversity and inclusion consulting company with over 1000 clients worldwide. Within that same year, Blain was awarded one of Vancouver’s fifty most influential people for their work as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter – Vancouver. The year before that, they were listed as one of CBC’s 150 Black Women and Non-Binary People Making Change in Canada. Some of their most noteworthy achievements include speaking at the United Nations Summit in Quito, Ecuador, and developing an Intersectionality Toolkit for the City of Vancouver. They are also an instructor in Executive Leadership at Simon Fraser University and the Editorial Director of Ripple of Change Magazine.