Posts by Rowan Burdge

About Rowan Burdge

Rowan Burdge (she/they) is the provincial director of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition. They are a disabled, white settler living on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Burdge is a queer chronically ill advocate and organizer, working towards poverty eradication alongside marginalized communities across B.C.

People in poverty need policy solutions, not a report card 

Jul 29, 2024

By Rowan Burdge, Anastasia French and Veronique Sioufi

Last week, the BC Government released the first update to the Poverty Reduction Strategy since the inaugural plan in 2019. As organizations long committed to ending poverty in BC, we hoped to see plans for how the government would achieve the targets that they set in the spring—reducing the overall poverty rate in the province… View Article