Laurel Albina

Laurel Albina is a facilitator, mediator, and workshop designer with a background in labour relations and negotiations.

Laurel brings to her work an inherent belief that every person--and every group--is deeply intelligent and fully capable of navigating complex issues with creativity, compassion, and accountability. 

For the past fifteen years she has worked nationally and internationally with labor organizations and frontline workers stepping into several different roles: organizer, facilitator, negotiator, campaign strategist, curriculum designer, trainer, coach, organizational development and change management consultant.  

Fundamental to her professional practice and personal learning journey has been an education and commitment to understanding how racism and systemic oppression impacts our ability to connect, collaborate, and make change.

Laurel is committed to bringing an equity, diversity, inclusion, justice, and specifically racial justice, framework to all her work and deeply values partnering with collaborators outside her lived experience.

More personally, Laurel Albina is a Canadian-born Palestinian American. Her parents--separate and respectively--immigrated to Canada to leave war and find stability. She grew up, like many, straddling two worlds and two ways of knowing; her young life was full of contradictions, fraught relationships, and surprising beauty—all of which inform who she is and how she practices this work.