Katie Upham, Regional Director Atlantic

Katie Upham (she/her) lives in Miꞌkmaꞌki (Nova Scotia) and is the Harm Reduction Educator of the Substance User Network of the Atlantic Region (SUNAR). She is a member of a number of other advocacy and drug user groups such as The Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs and Moms Stop the Harm. She uses her own living experience with substance use and those of the SUNAR membership to advocate for change in health care settings, drug policies, and other structural changes to our current systems that support the rights of those with lived/living experience of substance use. She strongly believes that people who use(d) substances must be justly included in all practices, programming and guidelines that concern them to reduce stigma and save lives.