As executive director of Home Suite Hope, Sara Cumming designs programs to help unhoused single mothers put together the crucial pieces they need: housing, jobs, childcare and more. These programs have led to lasting impact for single mothers and their children. Sara is also known for finding creative ways to build ties with the community: sourcing grocery donations for students during lockdown, brokering temporary residences at Sheridan College for Ukrainian refugees. For her current project, the Community Ideas Factory, she's working with 16 local organizations to build a life skills course that can be used and adopted by community organizations across Canada.
Sara's doctoral research at Waterloo laid the foundation for her work at Home Suite Hope and at Sheridan College where she's an award-winning sociology professor. But she also credits her insights to her own experience as the daughter of a single teen mom and a former single mother herself.
