NORTHEST 2.9 (CAL)

By Shae Kubur

Kim Chambers is a 23-year-old woman living in the Northeast community of Calgary. She has been living in Calgary’s NorthEast since she was 12 years old. She watched her siblings grow up in this community and have made friends in this community as well. Kim is also an immigrant, born in Jamaica and coming to Canada when she was 2. She joins Shae Kubur, in NorthEast2.9, to speak on what it means to be a black, an immigrant in Calgary. She speaks on her childhoods, her school life, her neighbourhoods, and how that shaped her to the young woman she is today.