Big Dreams Bright Minds One Backpack featuring Melissa Enmore

In this episode, Melissa Enmore speaks to the importance of education and educators as catalysts supporting children to get closer to living their big dreams.  She describes the importance of learning and growing in world that is forever evolving and the need for the education system to reform and better equip bright minds to be adaptable and think differently. Melissa talks about the expectation to achieve in the Caribbean and the structural and systemic issues affecting learning and health. She advocates and wishes more people would listen and understand that leadership is not a one-size fits all model, data can help identify issues and work towards resolutions, and character can support us to accept and learn to love one another. 

Melissa Enmore is the Co-Founder and Director of The Backpack Project International Program, a non-profit organization that promotes health and education among Caribbean children, and children of the Caribbean diaspora in Toronto, Canada.  She also recently became a published author of the anthology, "21 Resilient Women: Stories of Courage, Growth and Transformation."  Melissa is committed to making a difference in children's lives, one backpack at a time. Melissa obtained her Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Toronto, her Masters in International Public Health from the University of Queensland and is currently a psychology doctorate student.