Brooke Porter

Event Coordinator

Brooke Porter, Event Coordinator, is delighted to be part of such an engaging team at Speakers’ Spotlight.

When she’s not on the clock, Brooke likes to write stories, get lost on mountains, and base pivotal life decisions on the cycles of the moon.

Brooke studied English Literature and Transitional Justice at Western University.

Disruption and Challenging the Status Quo

Change, Risk, and Becoming Comfortable with Discomfort

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Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity

Why Young Men is not a memoir but a book of ideas that pursues a positive path and offers a counterintuitive, often provocative argument for a sea change in the way we look at young men, and for how they see themselves.

A House in the Sky

A House in the Sky is the dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity — an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace.