Who We Are

THE TEAM

 

THE BOARD
Our Board is comprised of 7 administrators.

 

Amanda Wilson
Interim President and Treasurer

Amanda is a Professor in the School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul University. Her areas of research include the food movement and carceral food systems, co-operatives and collective organizing, and questions related to prefiguration and enacting a politics of possibility. Outside of academia, she has worked with several non-governmental organizations in the areas of policy analysis, research, network coordination and popular education, and is a long-time community organizer and activist in Ottawa.

 

Leslie Touré Kapo
Board Member

*Bio in English to come. 

 

Krys Maki
Board Member

Krys Maki (they/them) holds a PhD in Sociology. Their areas of research include feminist movements, collective organizing around gender-based violence, poverty and social inequality, and critical surveillance studies. Prior to joining the School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul University they completed a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa on labour organizing and movement building within women’s shelters. In 2021, they published their first book Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance with Fernwood Publishing. Outside of academia, Krys worked as the Director of Research and Policy at Women’s Shelters Canada, a national non-profit network of violence against women shelters (2017-2022). Their activist scholarship is deeply informed by their work as a long-time organizer and activist with labour, anti-poverty, and feminist movements.

 

 

Michaël Séguin  
Board Member

*Bio in English to come. 

 

Tewegan Housing for Aboriginal Youth  
Board Member

Tewegan Housing for Aboriginal Youth is a culturally rooted transitional housing service with Indigenous young women ages 16 to 29 years of age that are experiencing Indigenous homelessness.

Tewegan exists to offer a place which tethers Indigenous young women to their experience of meaning, purpose, belonging and hope through Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being. Simply stated – we exist to restore connection.

 

Vanessa Murengera – The Bridge Co-Net
Board Member

*Bio in English to come. 

 

Jennifer Bruce 
Board Member

Jenn Bruce is a PhD Candidate in the Interdisciplinary Research on Contemporary Social Issues program at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. Her doctoral research looks at  how non-profit organizations can use a disability justice framework to deepen their impact and contribute to social change. Her professional background includes 6 years working in the disability sport sector in areas such as collective impact, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. She continues to engage and work with the non-profit sector on strategy development and organizational change. 

 

THE FOUNDERS

 

OUR PARTNERS