About
Lisa Campbell Salazar is a graduate of the York University Master of Environmental Studies program with a special focus on Youth, New Media and Social Change. She has worked as an HIV educator since 1999, working with young people who use drugs in developing harm reduction initiatives. Currently she is the Coordinator of the Queen West Harm Reduction Program at Central Toronto Community Health Centres, and works with a variety of diverse of populations including injection drug users, sex workers, homeless / street-involved population and Aboriginal Peoples. At CTCHC Lisa applies her community arts and media skills by supporting a wide variety of arts-based harm reduction programming, including the TRIP! Project, Empower, Story Gleaners and the Mosaic Project.
Lisa is a Universities Without Walls alumni, and has spoken at numerous academic and community conferences such as the International Harm Reduction Association Conference, the National Harm Reduction Conference, the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) Research Conference, the Urban Youth and the Determinants of Sexual Health Student Symposium, the Fulbright Institute of International Education Conference, the Interactive Technology in Education Symposium and the original MobileTech4SocialChange barcamp in San Francisco. As an academic and community worker her work has been featured in the Canadian Woman Studies Journal, Panorama Magazine, and she has served on the editorial board of the Women & Environments International Magazine and as the Editor-in-Chief of Youth Action Forum Magazine.