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INSPIRING YOUTH
LEADERS

Over 8,000 world leaders, practitioners, activists, youth leaders, advocates, and academics came together
for the 2019 International Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver to drive progress on gender equality
through the lens of power.

SCIC’s Executive Director accompanied a group of youth delegates from across the country to this
empowering week-long opportunity in May 2019. The youth delegate from Saskatchewan was Lexie Obey,
a Plains Cree Métis women, youth care worker and a recent graduate of the Human Justice program at
the University of Regina. Her life and work experience has cultivated a passion for understanding and
working against inequality and injustices within her community.

“I WAS DETERMINED TO FIND SOMETHING, SOMEONE OR SOME ISSUE TO RELIGHT THE LITTLE FIRE
INSIDE. WOMEN DELIVER DID JUST THAT, BUT IN WAYS I COULD HAVE NEVER IMAGINED.”

When Lexie returned home from Women Deliver she felt more prepared to share stories of value and hope
in her everyday life. “the connections I made with other young leaders at the conference had a significant
impact on me. Following the sessions I spent entire evenings with other delegates talking about lived
experiences, empowerment, what real change looks like in each of our lives and communities.

Everyone I connected with wanted to know more, wanted to be a part of something bigger and wanted to
create change. It was infectious.” In her role as a youth care worker, Lexie wears many hats, she is a role
model, friend, storyteller and mentor. She has carried the spark from her experience at Women Deliver
into her work and community here is Saskatchewan, “Participating as a youth delegate at Women Deliver
provided me with stories of hope and passion to pass on to other youth.”

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