Jenna Smith

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Jenna Smith was born and raised in Montreal. She holds a masters degree in theology from Université de Montréal and was awarded the Dean's Prize for her thesis in 2011. She is the founding director of Innovation Youth, an inner city centre for teens and their families, offering education, life skills and community development services. When she’s not leaving a trail of cookbooks and yarn behind her, you can usually find her biking on her way to the community garden. ...more

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The virtue of mistakes

I have made a few mistakes lately.

Not cutesy-oh-she-got the-wrong-haircut-left-the-burner-on mistakes. More like, “went through a stop sign and caused a car crash” mistake. And also the “made not two but three accounting errors that brought in a call from our government funding agency and threatened us with a seven year audit” mistake. You know, the colossal types.

A word about mistakes: I don’t

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