Thea Bracewell is a Senior Policy Analyst with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, where she is the lead on advancing gender equality and mainstreaming Gender-based Analysis Plus within Canada’s Settlement and Integration Sector. Thea has over fourteen years of professional experience advancing gender equality issues, including at the federal level to address gender based-violence using a multi-sectoral approach, mainstreaming gender throughout the policy cycle, applying intersectional gender and social inclusion analysis (GBA Plus) to policy and programs, and GBA Plus technical capacity building with federal civil servants as well as non-government organizations. Thea was the BC and Yukon region program lead for the federal Department, Women and Gender Equality, where she worked closely with civil society organizations funded by the Department. She also worked for the U.S. Peace Corps, where she lived in the Far North region of Cameroon for two years, and co-authored a successful application for funding from the European Union for an advocacy campaign to advance women’s access to their birth certificates and national identity cards.