05/05/2026
Meet our panelists: Jennifer Hubbert and Carmie Zahara, two exceptional women who will also participate in our panel discussion on women's issues.
Jennifer Hubbert
Jenny Hubbert is a 33 year old intersectional feminist from North Sydney. She is a mother to Elliot(8), Clementine(6) and Daisy(4).
She has been working in the non-profit community sector for the past ten years with a focus on outreach, program facilitation and activism. For the past 6 years she has been focused on women's rights through her work with Northside Changemakers, Hope House, Every Woman's Centre and CBU Women's Centre. She has also been involved with research on GBV, disability and quality of life.
She brings lived experience of grooming, exploitation, intimate partner violence, post partum depression and addiction.
She works closely with Carmie in the Cape Breton Feminist Society, planning events like Take Back the Night and the Women's March. She joined the Nova Scotia Ministers Table on Gender Based Violence in 2025 and recently graduated from CBU with a Bachelor of Arts in Community Studies.
Jenny loves gardening, painting, protests and reading to her kids.
Carmie Zahara has been an educator for 25 years, a community leader, and a proud mother of six dedicated to gender equity, education, and social change. She is the Equity Consultant for the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education and a sessional instructor at Cape Breton University in the Bachelor of Education program. Passionate about social justice, equity, and women’s rights, she founded the Cape Breton Feminist Society in 2020.
Carmie has also been teaching a weighted power class in YMCA for 11 years, loves to travel and has spent time in Uganda and Europe as part of her travels.
