Kaitlyn Hatch (any pronoun with respect) is a polymath: a multi-genre writer, mixed media artist, designer, animator, podcast producer, community organizer, and dharma philosopher. They are also queer, disabled, racialized white Canadian and of Métis (assimilated) and British and French colonialist ancestry. Kaitlyn acknowledges that these things matter as they influence what they see in the world, as well as what they do not see.
Liberation is the North Star of Kaitlyn's practice and life. At 19 they founded the Miscellaneous Youth Network, a not-for-profit dedicated to creating sustainable safe spaces for QILT2BAG+* youth in their hometown, Calgary, AB. Since then they have worked in the charity/non-profit sector in both Canada and the UK for more than a decade, holding various roles in fundraising, volunteer coordination, project management and brand management.
Kaitlyn is a trained Buddhist Chaplain through the Upaya Zen Center’s Buddhist chaplaincy program, offering spiritual support in the realm of social justice, during which she wrote her thesis, Attending to the Discomfort of Implicit Bias: A role for the contemplative chaplain in social justice. A Dharma practitioner since 2008, anti-racism and a commitment to liberation is core to her spiritual practice. Her primary teacher is Pema Chödrön, and she currently practices within both the Radical Dharma and Bhumisparsha communities.
Kaitlyn’s breadth of work can be seen on her professional website: KaitlynSCHatch.com
*Queer, intersex, lesbian, transgender, two-spirit, bisexual, asexual and gay et al
Liberation is the North Star of Kaitlyn's practice and life. At 19 they founded the Miscellaneous Youth Network, a not-for-profit dedicated to creating sustainable safe spaces for QILT2BAG+* youth in their hometown, Calgary, AB. Since then they have worked in the charity/non-profit sector in both Canada and the UK for more than a decade, holding various roles in fundraising, volunteer coordination, project management and brand management.
Kaitlyn is a trained Buddhist Chaplain through the Upaya Zen Center’s Buddhist chaplaincy program, offering spiritual support in the realm of social justice, during which she wrote her thesis, Attending to the Discomfort of Implicit Bias: A role for the contemplative chaplain in social justice. A Dharma practitioner since 2008, anti-racism and a commitment to liberation is core to her spiritual practice. Her primary teacher is Pema Chödrön, and she currently practices within both the Radical Dharma and Bhumisparsha communities.
Kaitlyn’s breadth of work can be seen on her professional website: KaitlynSCHatch.com
*Queer, intersex, lesbian, transgender, two-spirit, bisexual, asexual and gay et al
