Alex DeForge (they/them)

Equity-driven leader with deep experience in non-profits and academia, specializing in intersectional social impact research, community-inclusive grant development, and community-led advocacy. Builds values-aligned partnerships and advances DEI in research, policy, and institutional review. Experienced and compelling public speaker across government, academic, and community settings. Committed to fostering staff autonomy while strengthening systems for impact, accountability, and equitable change.

I am a nonbinary, trans, queer and mixed-race settler of Filipinx and white ancestry. I am a settler on the unceded lands of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples.

• Programming in Python for Data Science
• Data Visualization, UBC, 05/23

Rock Climbing Mentor | Belay All | 2020-PRESENT

I mentor other trans and BIPOC climbers in outdoor climbing, helping them navigate climbing environments, learn climbing skills, practice safety systems, facilitate a safe environment for all bodies. Consiencious Conscientious of how colonization and white supremacy have moulded the sport, and ways we can resist this as a community.

Rock Climbing Mentor | Vancouver Queer Climbers | 2020-PRESENT

I mentor other trans and non-binary climbers in outdoor climbing, helping them navigate climbing environments, learn climbing skills, practice safety systems, facilitate a safe environment for all bodies.

Union Steward | CUPE Local 1936 (QMUNITY) | 2021-2023

I have built and maintained a cooperative relationship between staff and management while protecting the rights and needs of my coworkers. I found resolutions to issues of bullying, harassment, and mismanagement.

Member at Large| Canadian Staff Union | 2020

While working for CUPE I was elected by my fellow CSU members to be a Member at Large. I ran on a platform of centering racial justice, reconciliation, and gender equity in the labour movement.

Canvasser and Organizer | Duke Graduate Student Union, Durham, NC | 2016-2017

Worked on minority-union campaigning to secure better healthcare services for Duke Graduate Students.

Graduate Student Representative | Duke Philosophy Department Faculty Meetings | 2016-2017

Elected representative of the philosophy graduate student body.

Aerialist Performer and Child-Wrangler | Durham Ballet Theatre, Durham, NC | 2014-2017

The Little Mermaid ballet (2016), opening act for New York’s Constellation Moving Company (2016), Durham Centerfest (2016), Fundraiser for Planned Parenthood (2016), the Peter Pan ballet (2017)

SuWA (Supporting Women’s Action) | Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University | 2014-2015

Taught English as a second language to adult refugee women who spoke Arabic and Farsi. Specialized in teaching adults English (vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, etc.) to pass the TOEFL exam.

IMAGYN BC

Kenan Institute for Ethics

The Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making Lab

Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab