USE - Key Persons
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- Senior Director, Community Engagement and Social Impact, Concordia University / Board Member
Andrea Clarke est membre de l'équipe du Vice-rectorat exécutif aux affaires académiques en tant que directrice principale, engagement communautaire et impact social. Avant de rejoindre l'équipe de Concordia, elle a été directrice générale d'À deux mains, un organisme qui priorise et valorise le vécu des jeunes depuis plusieurs décennies. Elle siège sur plusieurs conseils d'administration et comités aviseurs au sein de fondations et d'organismes communautaires.
Andrea Clarke is the Senior Director, Community Engagement and Social Impact within the Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic at Concordia. Prior to this role, she was the Executive Director of Head & Hands, an organization which has a decades strong history of centering and valuing the lived experience of youth. She sits on a number of boards and advisory committees in both the philanthropic and community sector.
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- Co - Chair of the UNESCO
- Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria
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- Professor, University of Victoria
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- Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria
- Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Special Advisor on Community Engaged Scholarship, University of Victoria / Board Member
Crystal Tremblay is an assistant professor at the University of Victoria. She provides leadership to the Community Engagement and Partnerships Executive Committee (CEPEC) at Uvic. She also provides support to Deans, chairs and administration on revising policies for evaluation for CES. Crystal has an active research portfolio as a community engaged scholar, and CO-PI on several active SSHRC grants in a number of areas related to climate change resiliency and youth engagement (BC), waste governance and social innovation (global), indigenous resource management (Tanzania/Canada) and training in CBR (global).
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- Manager for the Office of Community Engagement
- Manager, Office of Community Engagement, McMaster University / Board Member
Dave Heidebrecht is the manager for the Office of Community Engagement at McMaster University. He supports community-campus partnerships, coordinates a network of interdisciplinary colleagues, and leads the implementation of the community engagement strategic plan. He is the founding chair of Cycle Hamilton Coalition Inc., an advocacy organization that promotes a healthy, safe, and sustainable cycling culture in Hamilton. Dave has an MA in Globalization Studies and a BA in Sociology.
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- Senior Advisor, Centre for Community Based Research / Board Co - Chair and Treasurer
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- Program Coordinator
- Program Coordinator for the CBR Canada
Julia Coburn is the Program Coordinator for the CBR Canada. Previous to the CBR Canada, Julia was the Co-Founder and Executive Director of WorldVuze, a global discussion platform for K-12 students around the world to safely share perspectives. As part of WorldVuze, Julia led multiple national social action challenges for children and youth, including UNICEF Canada's "Better than Before" campaign, Kids Help Phone's "Bullying Awareness and Prevention" campaign, and the "Next 150/Les Prochaines 150 Années" campaign supported by Canadian Heritage. She also worked in partnership with The Critical Thinking Consortium to develop and facilitate professional development training for teachers to use WorldVuze to help students foster global competency skills.
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- Associate Vice President
- Associate Vice President ( Research & International ) and Professor, School of Social Work, Carleton University / Board Member
Karen Schwartz, PhD, is Associate Vice President (Research & International) and a professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. Her areas of practice and research involve community engaged scholarship, field education, mental health and social work pedagogy. She teaches a research course that requires students to engage in community based research and is a co-investigator on a SSHRC funded grant exploring the benefits to the community from campus engagement. She has co-authored the book Research For Social Justice: A Community Based Approach.
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- Community Worker
- Supervisor of Programming, Toronto Centre of Learning & Development / Board Member
Karen Villanueva-Paez is a Colombian community worker currently based in Tkaronto, Kanata (Toronto, Canada). She graduated from York University with an HBA in International Development Studies and is a Master in Social Work student at the University of Toronto. Karen currently holds the portfolio of Supervisor of Programming at the Toronto Centre for Learning & Development. For the past 6 years, through her community development practice, Karen integrates her passion for popular education, activism and visual arts to support immigrant and newcomer populations living in underserved communities. Karen collaborates with grassroots stakeholders to create programs that serve their own communities and foster their capacity to enact social change.
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- Research Project Assistant, Community Engaged Scholarship Institute, University of Guelph / Board Member
- the Research Project Assistant
Kendra is the Research Project Assistant for the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph. She is a board member and recording secretary for CBRC.
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- Executive Director of Canadian Research Data Centre Network
- Executive Director, Canadian Research Data Centre Network / Board Member
Martin Taylor is the Executive Director of Canadian Research Data Centre Network. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria in BC, Canada and adjunct professor at McMaster University and at the University of Waterloo. Martin served as the CBRC Board Co-Chair until 2019. From 2007-2012, he worked as Founding President of Ocean Networks Canada and from 1998-2007 he was the University of Victoria's Vice-President Research. He holds a BA (Hons. Geography) from Bristol University and an MA and PhD in Geography from the University of British Columbia. He is the author of two books and over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the field of environmental and community health.
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- Associate Vice - President
- Founding Member of CICADA
- Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University
- Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University / Board Member
Budd Hall, Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria and Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
Monica Mulrennan is Associate Vice-President, Research (Development and Outreach) in the Office of the Vice-President Research and Graduate Studies, and Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University. As AVP, she is responsible for supporting research development, including the implementation of research-related commitments associated with Concordia's EDI Action Plan, Indigenous Directions Action Plan, and Sustainability Action Plan. She is also involved in university-wide efforts to support community-engaged research and scholarship, and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Monica's research addresses Indigenous rights and interests at the land-sea interface of Indigenous territories, including Indigenous knowledge and use of these areas, and Indigenous-led strategies of conservation and environmental protection. She has sustained research partnerships with Torres Strait Islanders, northern Queensland, and James Bay Crees (Eeyou Istchee), northern Quebec for almost thirty years and directs a dynamic research team of MSc and Doctoral students who share her interests and commitment to partnered research led by indigenous communities. In addition to numerous research papers and book chapters, she is co-editor of a recently published edited volume "Caring for Eeyou Istchee: Protected Area Creation in Eeyou Istchee" (UBC Press, 2019).
Monica is a founding member of CICADA (the Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives), and an honorary member of the ICCA Consortium (Indigenous Peoples' and Community Conserved Areas and Territories). Her current research projects include her participation in the SSHRC-funded "Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership" (CRP) and in "FISHES: Fostering Indigenous Small-scale fisheries for Health, Economy, and food Security", a large-scale applied research project partly funded through Genome Canada and Génome Québec.
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- Assistant Professor, University of Victoria / Board Member
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- Membership and Communications Coordinator / Program Coordinator
- Program Coordinator ( Interim )
Sarah Switzer is an adult educator, interdisciplinary scholar, and community-based participatory researcher with almost fifteen years of experience supporting community-led approaches to social change. She believes in working collaboratively, imaginatively and equitably for social justice and is committed to research done in partnership with communities and community-based organizations. Her toolkit often contains a cellphone or camera, flip-chart markers, a bag of lego blocks, some glue sticks, and a vial of glitter (and other fun objects). Her lived experiences as a white, cis, queer settler, with an invisible disability has motivated her desire to co-design and co-imagine participatory spaces with accessibility, anti-racism and social justice at the centre.
Her larger program of research focuses on the methodological, theoretical, and pedagogical dimensions of participation and community engagement, as inspired by a decade of working at the intersections of community arts, peer programming, and HIV and Harm Reduction. More recently, she has turned her attention to exploring how community-engaged practitioners (participatory researchers, community artists and community facilitators) are adapting their participatory work with communities to online and remote settings, as a result of COVID-19, and the unique ethical and pedagogical issues that emerge (Seethe beyondthetoolkit project for more).
She completed a PhD in Environmental Studies (York University) and held a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has published in the fields of: participatory visual methodologies; harm reduction; youth engagement; HIV community-based research; visual ethics; and the critical study of participation and engagement. She currently lives in Tkaronto (Toronto), as covered by Treaty 13 and the Williams treaties, with her partner.
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- Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo / Board Member
- Professor
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- Campus Director, Simon Fraser 's Surrey Campus / Board Co - Chair
- Executive Director, Simon Fraser 's Surrey Campus / Board Co - Chair
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- Partnership Development Officer to the Vice - President Research and Innovation, University of Toronto / Board Member
Steven Hermans is a Partnership Development Officer in the Division of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, at the University of Toronto. He supports the development of collaborative and partnership-based research - research that engages teams working across multiple institutions and sectors. With expertise and experience in multi-disciplinary collaboration and partnership building, he helps cultivate new partnerships, supports the development of good partnership practices, and contributes to strategies and proposals to secure funding for partnership-based research. By advising emergent and established partnership-based research teams about funding opportunities and strategies, he supports UofT researchers' participation and success in SSHRC Partnership Programs (PG, PDG, and PEG) and other competitive funding programs.
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- Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo / Board Member
Warren completed his collaborative PhD in Population Medicine and International Development Studies at the University of Guelph in 2016. For his PhD research, he investigated the connections between labour mobility, health, and rural livelihoods among small-scale farming households in South India. Warren is currently engaged in interdisciplinary research projects with community partners in Yellowknife, NWT and Honduras. Warren also works with the Guelph and Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination where he is a member of their Research and Knowledge Mobilization Committee.