Karen Balcom

I’m deeply grateful to my friends and colleagues for nominating me for a YWCA Hamilton Women of Distinction Award. I’ve been nominated in the Education and Training and Lifetime Achievement categories. #WODHamiltonHalton

Today I will be sharing how #HamOnt residents, social workers, community health care experts, nurses, doctors, & community orgs worked together to restructure the @cityofhamilton's Board of Health 👇🏿 universitas21.com/event/inter-pr… @McMasterSocSci @McMasterU

🎉Kick off your @supercrawl weekend with us! Join McMaster’s Office of Community Engagement for a pop-up of workshops, activities & community connections in downtown #HamOnt. Sept 12, 3–5:30PM @ One James North. ✨ RSVP & learn more: bit.ly/4mo8RJL

📣 Only two days left to vote in the AHA Elections! Hear Sherene Seikaly, our candidate for Vice President of the professional Division explain how & why the democratization of AHA is about Palestine, queer liberation, black liberation, class politics, and protecting immigrants.

.@McMasterU is harboring hate. Profs take $$ from an anti-trans hate org -- and they know it. Read and share this important piece from @theSpec in #HamOnt: archive.ph/ievJG @HCCI1 @EquityNetworkD @swaphamilton

📢 Meet the 2025 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award winners — including two winners from @mcmasteru! 🎉 Join @researchimpact's FREE webinar on June 26 to learn about their award-winning projects, which drive real-world impact. Register: lu.ma/tqclq7z2

The @McMasterU & @McMasterOCE community joins the Filipino(x) community in grieving & caring for each other after the tragic event at the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival. Statement of solidarity, signed by Directors Dr. @ajesusjoseph, Dr. @LeaRavensbergen, & Dr. @KarenBalcom #HamOnt

Indigenous scholars & practitioners reflect on the C2UExpo theme, "Partners in Place." Grounded in the values of relationality reciprocity & respect for land & community. @MacEwanResearch @McMasterU @KarenBalcom @ajesusjoseph #C2UExpo #McMasterOCE

Historian here you could call it happy tariff day or happy Great Depression day or you could call it late stage rapacious capitalism

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

We're excited to announce that @SWAPHamilton was accepted into the @McMasterU's Community Engaged Research Days this month, March 27-28! 💕 @McMasterOCE @McMasteResearch #HamOnt

The next Canadian Prime Minister should appoint Justin Trudeau as Ambassador to the United States.

Sarah Jama's defeat sends a message to principled activists that theres limited spaces in electoral politics for us. Abandonment by the supposed "left" @OntarioNDP party hits the hardest. But politics don't end at elections. It's just the beginning. #onpoli

McMaster course aims to fight the erasure of Black history in Latin America cbc.ca/news/canada/ha… @McMasterU @mcmasterhum @abldmcmaster @McMasterLAN

@EasyThePianoMan @VoteMonicaPC Gracious. As always. Thankyou for the endless efforts to build and support community. The work continues.

The #onpoli is over. Here on the Hamilton Mountain, residents voted for @VoteMonicaPC. Congratulations 👏🏿🎉 on your win and best wishes to you. #HamOnt #HamiltonMountain #HamOntMtn #OnElxn

1.5 hours until polls close! Get out and vote! 🗳️ 7/

It's the final countdown 🗳️ Much 🧡 to everyone that has volunteered, donated, & voted for @KojoDampteyONDP Your dedication & participation is a testament to our will to care for one another & build a province where everyone can thrive abundantly. #HamOnt #onpoli #HamOntMtn

Happy Election Day #HamiltonCentre! Shoutout to MP Matthew Green for dropping in with Grandad’s 💜💛 Thank you to our incredible volunteers who are spending the day pulling the vote. If you need a ride to your polling station, give us a shout! votesarahjama.ca/vote

Celebrating Black Youth in #HamOnt at the John C. Holland Awards @hollandawards #JCHA2025 🎉