109. Advocating with Samantha Rayburn-Trubyk

Samantha Rayburn-Trubyk (she/her) lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba with her husband Ryan and son Yale. Samantha and Yale were born with Achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism.  

Samantha holds a Master’s Degree in Disability Studies and a BA Adv. degree from the University of Manitoba where she majored in Labour and Workplace Studies and an Adult Learning certificate specializing in Workplace Learning from the University of Calgary. 

 

Samantha has worked in Human Resources for 20 years and is currently the Director of Human Resources for a Winnipeg based lumber and construction company. 

 

Since 2015, she has been President of Little People of Manitoba. In 2022, she was elected to the Board of Directors as the Advocacy Director for Little People of America, a non-profit with over 7,000 members. 

 

Samantha is an ardent advocate for the rights of people with disabilities including little people. In 2017, she advocated for Manitoba to become the first province to annually declare October 25th as Dwarfism Awareness Day. In 2019, together with Sport Manitoba successfully advocated for the removal of the term midget from all major sports leagues in Manitoba, and shortly thereafter Hockey Canada followed suit.

 

Previously, Samantha was a featured speaker at RBC Winnipeg’s Diversity & U employee event, the 3rd annual Winnipeg Women’s March and at the Home Depot’s Women in Retail conference. In 2021, she had an essay published in a book titled Still Living the Edges, a Disabled Women’s Reader. 

In 2018 and in 2020, Samantha was named on Ace Burpee’s Top 100 Most Fascinating Manitobans list. In 2021, was awarded the Manitoba 150 Nelly McClung Women Trailblazers award and in 2022, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal in Manitoba for her community work.

 

Samantha has one goal in life, to break as many barriers as possible.

 

Connect with Samantha:

TikTok: @sam_truburn

LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-rayburn-trubyk

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