Two Faces of Poverty
Conference Speakers
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- Teofilo Altamirano – Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru.
- Chris Axworthy – Dean, Faculty of Law, Robson Hall, University of Manitoba.
- Lloyd Axworthy – President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg, member of the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
- Jerry Buckland – International Development Studies Program Co-ordinator, Menno Simons College.
- Marianne Cerilli – West Central Women's Resource Centre.
- Paul Chartrand – Chair: University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Governance Program.
- Jennifer DeGroot – Coordinator of UNPAC.
- Doreen Demas – President of the First Nations DisAbility Association.
- Debra Diubaldo – Program Coordinator, “Completing the Circle – Peer Mentoring" Native Women's Transition Centre Inc.
- Jim Doerksen -Council of Canadians With Disabilities, Human Rights Committee.
- Andrew Douglas – Asset Building Program Director.
- Lillian Dyck – Member of the Canadian Senate.
- Nahanni Fontaine – Director of Justice, Southern Chiefs Organization.
- Ashraf Ghani – Chancellor of Kabul University; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University; member of the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
- Blair Hamilton – Dungannon Consulting Services.
- Judith Harris – Urban and Inner City Studies, University of Winnipeg.
- Joan Hay – Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre (Mamawi); Manitoba Human Rights Commission.
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Laurie K. Helgason –Vice-Chair, Women's Health Clinic.
- Wayne Helgason - Chief Executive Officer, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg.
- Carmela Hutchison - President, DAWN Canada
- Bev Jacobs – President: Native Womens’ Association.
- Janis Johnson - Senator, Senate of Canada
- Debra Joyal – Manager, Community Financial Services Centre.
- Sandy Kirby –Associate VP (Research) and Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Winnipeg.
- Emma Larocque – Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba.
- Shauna MacKinnon – Director, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba.
- Ross McCormack – History Department, University of Winnipeg.
- Greg McIvor –
- Marilou McPhedran – Principal, University of Winnipeg Global College.
- David Northcott – Winnipeg Harvest.
- Kara Puketapu - Maori International.
- Jacqueline Romanow – University of Winnipeg, Aboriginal Governance Program.
- Eliakim Sibanda – History Department, University of Winnipeg; Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Global Studies, the University of Winnipeg Global College.
- Jim Silver – Chair: U of W Politics Department; Co-Director: Urban and Inner-City Studies program.
- Naresh Singh – Executive Director of the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
- Leslie Spillet – Executive Director, Ka Ni Kanichihk.
- Alex Stearns – Winnipeg Copwatch.
- Victoria Tauli-Corpuz – President: UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; advisor to the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
- Daniel Thau-Eleff - Winnipeg Copwatch
- Lorna Turnbull – Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba.
- Elena Valdiviezo Gainza – Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru.
- Susan Wadien -
- Byron Williams – Urban and Inner City Studies, University of Winnipeg.
- Jerry Woods – Chair, Manitoba Human Rights Commission.
| Teofilo Altamirano Dr. Altamirano is a principal investigator with the Centre for Social, Economic, Political and Anthropological Research and his courses have included the history and centrality of human migration in the process of economic development, with a primary focus on Latin America. He also has written on the issue of legal identity and poverty in Peru, with particular attention to the “undocumented” indigenous poor. |
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Lloyd Axworthy Lloyd Axworthy is formerly Director and CEO of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia and Canada’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2000, Axworthy’s political career spanned 27 years, during six of which he served in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly and twenty-one in the Federal Parliament. He held several Cabinet positions, notably Minister of Employment and Immigration, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, Minister of Transport, Minister of Human Resources Development, Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of Foreign Affairs. In the Foreign Affairs portfolio, Axworthy became internationally known for his advancement of the human security concept, in particular, the Ottawa Treaty - a landmark global treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. For his leadership on landmines, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. For his efforts in establishing the International Criminal Court and the Protocol on child soldiers, he received the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe. He has been named to both the Order of Manitoba and the Order of Canada. In February 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed Axworthy as his special envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace agreement between the East African countries. In January 2006, the Organization of American States appointed Axworthy to head the OAS Electoral Observation Mission that monitored the 2006 general elections in Peru. He serves on the boards of the MacArthur Foundation, Human Rights Watch, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. |
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Jerry Buckland Jerry Buckland’s academic background is in Economics and he has taught in International Development Studies for the past 15 years. His interests and teaching areas include micro-financial services and poverty, rural development and food security, and non-governmental organizations and community development. Jerry is currently involved in a three-year Social Science & Humanities Research Council funded research project examining financial exclusion in inner-cities in three Canadian cities. He is a board member with SEED Winnipeg. |
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Marianne Cerilli Marianne Cerilli is the youngest woman elected so far to the Manitoba Legislature, 1990-2003. She has also worked as a recreation leader, youth advocate, volunteer and youth program consultant, and high school guidance counselor. Since leaving the legislature, Marianne has created her own community development business, "Community Development for Health, Sustainability and Peace", and taught part time at the U of W and U of M, courses in women in politics, health education and Gender and Education. She is also currently a community mentor in the core of Winnipeg at the West Central Women’s Resource Centre, where she mentors women in advocacy. She is on the board for the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, chairs their Poverty Committee and recently joined the board of the Jubilee Fund. |
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Paul Chartrand Professor Chartrand’s professional interests, and numerous publications, are mainly in the fields of law and policy pertaining to Indigenous peoples. He has held teaching and other academic appointments at universities in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the United States. He was the first President and CEO of the Institute on Indigenous Government in B.C. and served as a commissioner on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1991-1995) and on Manitoba's Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission.(1999-2001) |
| Jennifer DeGroot Jennifer deGroot is a feminist, farmer, activist and mother. She is the coordinator of UNPAC, a women's advocacy organization that promotes women's political and economic literacy. |
| Doreen Demas Doreen Demas B.S.W, is President ot the First Nations DisAbility Association of Manitoba, and has been actively involved in the disability community for more than two decades. She has worked with First Nations organizations, provincial and federal governments and persons with disabilities and a consultant, policy and analyst and writer on issues related to disability, in areas such as health and poverty. She participated in the Canada Aboriginal Peoples’ Round Table sessions where she contributed in the areas of healthcare, education and housing. Of late, she is working with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the First Nations Education Resource Centre on their disability services model for on reserve First Nations children and adults with disabilities and their families. An award winner, she has published and spoken nationally and internationally on disability issues. |
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Debra Diubaldo Debra is an Aboriginal woman from the Metis nation and a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation. Debra’s mother and her family come from St. Ambroise, a small Metis village, near St.Laurent, Manitoba.. After 30 years in healthcare, Debra returned to school and attended the University of Manitoba where she achieved her Bachelor of Social work degree. Debra has also attained certification as a Life Skills Coach/ Facilitator through the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies. Debra is presently working at the Native Women’s Transition Centre as the Outreach Program Coordinator/ Trainer for the Completing the Circle- Ka-Keskimowin (Mentoring) Program. Debra has developed this program from the ground up and has been the principal facilitator in the training of community peer mentors and has also co-authored a curriculum manual that is soon to be launched in the community. Debra has also worked in rural and urban communities facilitating Life Skills sessions, as time permits. The Ka-Keskimowin (Mentoring) Program has been developed by Aboriginal women for Aboriginal women. The program has been designed to bend and sway, like the branches of a tree, with the changing needs of the women participating in it. The program has also been developed to promote personal growth, self-awareness, skill development, while raising the potential for academic and/or economic success. Several peer mentors will be co-presenting with Debra to share their wisdom and experiences, in their own voices. While all of the mentors have walked the same path of poverty and shared similar experiences, each of their journeys has been unique. Each mentor will share their stories of the past and present, with an honesty and courage that will not be easily forgotten. |
| Jim Doerksen Jim Doerksen was actively involved in the organization and development of the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Disabled Peoples’ International, the Canadian Disability Rights Council and other Disability Movement organizations. Subsequently, working for these organizations, he was instrumental in the establishment of provincial and national human rights legislation and the inclusion of disability rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He continues to be active as a policy advisor to Disability Movement organizations, as a member of CCD’s Human rights Committee and as a speaker and lecturer at conferences and univerities. |
| Andrew Douglas Andrew Douglas has been working with SEED Winnipeg Inc. and the Asset Building Programs since 1999. Combining an Education degree and experience working within a financial institution, Andrew has been a part of developing and delivering saving programs and money management training workshops that focus on helping low-income individuals and families acquire assets. |
| Lillian Dyck Dr. Lillian Eva Dyck is well-known as an advocate for women and Aboriginals and is a leading figure and role model in Canada’s scientific community. Before being appointed to the Senate, Dyck was a neuroscientist with the University of Saskatchewan where she was also associate dean. On March 12, 1999, Dyck, who is of Cree and Chinese heritage and was one of the first Aboriginal women in Canada to pursue an academic career in the sciences, was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation. Dr. Dyck has retired from University of Saskatchewan, where she was a Full Professor in the Neuropsychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Associate Dean at the College of Graduate Studies & Research. |
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Nahanni Fontaine Nahanni Fontaine is Director of Justice for the Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO), a political indigenous organization representing 36 Southern First Nations in Manitoba. As the Director of Justice, Ms. Fontaine supports the mandate and vision of SCO and its member constituencies by providing technical analysis, advocacy and support to the Southern Grand Chief and Southern Chief and Council members. SCO’s Department of Justice currently addresses the areas of policing; public complaints; devolution of probations and community corrections services; gang research and prevention; restorative justice; judicial policy and development; and the move towards a parallel indigenous justice system. Ms. Fontaine has a Masters of Arts degree in Native Studies, Women’s Studies and Critical Theory from the University of Manitoba. She is currently enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in the Department of Native Studies, Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Manitoba. Ms. Fontaine is Status Ojibway from the Sagkeeng Anishinaabe First Nation in southern Manitoba. |
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Ashraf Ghani Ashraf Ghani is former Minister of Finance, Afghanistan. He has taught at Kabul University, Aarhus University, UC Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University. The main focus of his academic research is social theory, development and political economy. Mr. Ghani spent several years as lead anthropologist at the World Bank. In 2002 Dr. Ghani was named the Executive Director of the Afghan Assistance Coordination Authority. From June 2002 to December 2004 he served as the Finance Minister of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, implementing a wide-ranging series of monetary and fiscal reforms and earning the Asia's Best Finance Minister of the Year Award in 2003. He is also the Chairman of the Institute of State Effectiveness, an organization set up in January 2005 to promote the ability of states to serve their citizens. |
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Blair Hamilton Blair Hamilton is a community economic development consultant and practitioner with experience in both urban and rural settings. As a member of Manitoba's C.E.D. community, he has had occasion to participate in a number of community-university research collaborations, including both the Winnipeg Inner City Research Alliance and the Manitoba Research Alliance. |
| Judith Harris Judith Harris is an Associate Professor in the Urban and Inner-City Studies Program at The University of Winnipeg. Her background is in planning and economics, with a particular interest in social learning and social mobilization approaches to planning. Judith notes: “Integral education recognizes the wealth of informal knowledge that exists at the community level. By promoting a learning society, the university contributes to a more equitable, more inclusive world; societies in which gatekeepers and professionals erect barriers to participation by the majority of people will not be prepared to address the complex issues that are emerging in the 21st century.” |
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Joan Hay Joan Hay is a Community Helper / Emergency Services Worker at the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre (Mamawi), a non-profit Aboriginal social services agency. She is also a community representative on the board at the University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation, a volunteer radio show co-host of "Inner City Voices" at 95.9 FM CKUW and the chair and founding member of Inner City Aboriginal Neighbours (I-CAN). Affectionately referred to as the "Queen of Spence" by members of her community, Ms. Hay was recently appointed to Manitoba human rights commission. |
| Laurie K. Helgason Currently, Laurie is the Vice-Chair of Women’s Health Clinic. Laurie is the former president of the St. John’s Residents Association and vice president of Ralph Brown Community center. In the early 80’s, working with the Winnipeg Police, Laurie helped to introduce Neighborhood Watch to the community. Laurie has worked in Community Development with the Riverborne Development Association and has volunteered with at Risk youth and as a sexual assault crisis prevention worker at Klinic on Portage Avenue. Laurie was the co-chair of the Citizen Equity Committee an Ad-Hoc committee reporting directly to the Mayor’s office, which works to ensure equity and diversity goals are met citywide. Laurie has also helped to re-established DAWN Manitoba (DisAbled Women’s Network). This is a matter of personal pride for Laurie as it has always been her dream to work with other disabled women to affect change. Laurie has now been the Co chair with Emily Ternette for the last few years and recently was re-elected for 3 more years with Emily as co-chair and Laurie has also filled the position of DAWN/RAFH Canada provincial representative. |
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Wayne Helgason Wayne Helgason is the Chief Executive Officer of the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg and is currently the Chair of the Board of the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD). He has been an active member of the Winnipeg Aboriginal community for more than three decades. He is a winner of the Queen's Jubilee Award, the Millenium Social Justice Research Award and in addition to lecturing on such varied topics as children at risk, poverty, employment and training, Aboriginal self-government, human rights and social security reform, Mr. Helgason has been a contract lecturer at the University of Toronto - Faculty of Preventative Medicine, Banff School of Management and the Canadian Centre for Management Development in Ottawa. He has also served on the Masters of Nation Building program at Harvard University Mr. Helgason is a band member of Sandy Bay First Nation, Manitoba and he and his family live in Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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Beverly Jacobs Beverley Jacobs has worked on issues affecting Aboriginal women in Canada. She has raised awareness of issues of violence against women and girls, matrimonial real property rights and Bill C-31. She was the Lead Researcher and consultant for Amnesty International on their Stolen Sisters report, which highlights the racialized and sexualized violence against Aboriginal women in Canada. Jacobs obtained a law degree from the University of Windsor and a master's degree in law from the University of Saskatchewan before opening her own law office on the Six Nations Reserve in 2003. Beverley Jacobs was elected president of the Native Women's Association of Canada in 2004. She's a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in southwestern Ontario. |
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Debra Joyal Debra was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and completed her accounting designation in Saskatoon. She spent 15 years as a senior manager in the corporate business banking/business development field and made the paradigm shift into Community Economic Development, 9 years ago. Since 2005 she has been Manager of the Community Financial Services Centre (CFSC), a project that was based on the research of Dr. Jerry Buckland, the vision of the Alternative Financial Services Coalition (AFSC), capitalized by the Winnipeg Partnership Agreement (WPA) and sponsored by the North End Community Renewal Corporation (NECRC). |
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Emma LaRocque Dr. Emma LaRocque is a scholar, author, professor, poet and human rights advocate. She acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/Communications from Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana in 1973; a Master of Arts in Peace Studies from the Associated Mennonite Seminaries, Elkhart, Indiana - for which she received the Rockefeller Fellowship - in 1976; an MA in History in 1980 and a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies in History/English from the University of Manitoba in 1999. Dr. LaRocque is frequently cited in scholarly books, creative and learned journals and prestigious anthologies. She is internationally recognized and has presented academic papers and read her poetry in Australia, England, Hawaii and throughout North America. She has been a guest of CBC Radio and appeared as a consultant in the NFB film "Women in the Shadows". Dr. Emma LaRocque resides in Winnipeg and remains active as a professor, researcher, writer and human rights advocate in the Aboriginal and wider communities. |
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Shauna Mackinnon Shauna MacKinnon is the director the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba (CCPA-MB). She is the coordinator of the ongoing community-based State of the Inner-City Report, a collaborative research project that hires and trains inner-city residents to conduct research in the Inner City on issues identified by Community-Based Organizations. The project has resulted in several publications that have been broadly disseminated. Shauna is a co-investigator in a CCPA-MB led 5-year research project titled Transforming Inner-City and Aboriginal Communities funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council- Community University Research Alliance program (SSHRC-CURA). In addition to her research, Shauna is actively involved in several community initiatives and coalitions advocating for policy change to address poverty and social exclusion. |
| Ross McCormack Ross McCormack is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg as well as Director, Institute for Political and Cultural Studies of the Americas. Global structural trends are setting up conditions that produce the migration of large populations from the hinterland, also transforming society in Africa, Asia and Canada. The Institute explores the history and centrality of human migration in the process of economic development, with a primary focus on the Americas. Ross has also directed aid projects in South America, Asia and the Middle East. |
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Marilou McPhedran Marilou McPhedran was appointed as the Principal of the University of Winnipeg Global College in June 2008, after having served as the Chief Commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission and as the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights, University of Saskatchewan College of Law, where she taught her intergenerational models: “evidence based advocacy” and “lived rights” and chaired the Chains & Links – Human Rights Activism Conference. Born and raised in rural Manitoba, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978, named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1985 in recognition of her contributions to the grassroots campaign for stronger sex equality protections in the Canadian constitution, Marilou co-founded several internationally recognized non-profit systemic change organizations in Canada, including LEAF - the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund and was the founding director (at York University in 1997) of the International Women’s Rights Project (IWRP), which she relocated and co-directed at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies, from 2003-2007. |
| Greg McIvor A member of the God’s Lake First Nation with strong family connections in Pimicikamak Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Greg McIvor has had the privilege to work with First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities across Manitoba, Canada and the United States for over 25 years. Greg’s experience is wide and varied in the areas of Economic Development, Government Relations, Education, Special Projects, Framework Agreement Initiative (FAI), Health, and Urban Aboriginal Strategy. Greg has over 25 years of experience as a volunteer in a variety of sport and recreation activities - including his role as local recreation director, coordinator and host of the Northern Manitoba Sport and Recreation Association (NORMA) winter games in 1987. Participated as a volunteer member on boards and committees on NORMA, MASRC, NAIG and many community organizations. Greg is also the Sole Proprietor of Greg B. McIvor and Associates (Est. 2002) with extensive experience in undertaking community consultations, advocacy and accreditation in Human Resource Management, Project Management and Management. |
| David Northcott David Northcott is Executive Coordinator of Winnipeg Harvest and has been for most of his NGO career. Prior to joining Winnipeg Harvest, David has years of experience in the banking community before becoming a Community Development Worker for Winnipeg’s Inner City at the Broadway Action Steering Committee. Currently, David’s community involvement includes serving as a board member on the Vanier Institute of the Family, Manitoba Chambers of Commerce, Youth Employment Services and he is also the President of the Manitoba Association of Food Banks (MAFB). David also sits as a member of the member council for Food Banks Canada. He has previously served as Chair of the Canadian Association of Food Banks (Food Banks Canada); Chair of Celebrate Canada (Manitoba committee) and member of the National Anti-Poverty Organization and the National Council of Welfare. He was also a member of the Board for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Winnipeg, Western Canadian Aviation Museum and Chair of Volunteer Manitoba. A science degree in physics from UBC and certificate of management for NGO’s from U of M and many continuing education opportunities add to his knowledge base. David Northcott has an active and passionate commitment to food security issues and human rights. David was an NGO member of Canada’s delegation to the UN’s Second World Food Summit. David is married with three daughters. |
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Kara Puketapu Kara Puketapu is an internationally respected Maori elder. From 1977 to 1983 he served as New Zealand's first Maori secretary for Maori affairs, where he initiated and led major reforms in the way his department related to Maori, centered on the Tu Tangata (Stand Tall) programmes aimed at increasing Maori self-determination. Tu Tangata is a community elder program for community involvement, focusing on youth education. In 1983 he formed his own private enterprise, Maori International, focused on helping Maori establish themselves in business. He served two years with the New Zealand diplomatic corps in London and did a year of field work with Pueblo Indians in New Mexico as a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund, New York. |
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Jacqueline Romanow Jacqueline Romanow’s main field of interest is in international human and indigenous rights, especially the work of international organizations in the field, such as the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the Organization of American States. Most recently, her research has focused on cases before the Inter-American Human Rights system for the rights of indigenous peoples to their traditional territories. Using human rights models for norm implementation, she researches state level barriers to the implementation of IACHR rulings for indigenous property rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. |
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Eliakim Sibanda Dr. Eliakim Sibanda teaches African History at the University of Winnipeg. His most recent publication is "The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961-87: A Political History of Insurgency in Southern Rhodesia." Professor Sibanda's research and teaching interests include Human Rights, Oral History, race, class, and cultural studies. He is currently Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Global Studies and Associate Professor in History at the University of Winnipeg Global College. |
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Jim Silver Jim Silver is Chair of the UW Politics Department and Co-Director of the Urban and Inner-City Studies program. He has written extensively about inner-city and poverty-related issues in Winnipeg and elsewhere in Canada. |
| Naresh Singh Before joining the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Dr. Naresh Singh served as Director General of Governance and Social Development at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). From 1996 to 2001, he worked at the U.N. Development Program as Principal Adviser on Poverty and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Bureau for Development Policy. Dr. Singh shifted his research interest to policy development when he joined the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Winnipeg, as the Program Director for Poverty and Empowerment – which focused on understanding how poor people interact with their environment (1993-1996). Dr. Singh has held several academic positions, namely Adjunct Professor, Boston University in the MPH program, Canada Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Waterloo, Adjunct Professor at the University of Manitoba, Visiting Faculty at CUNY in International relations. |
| Leslie Spillet Leslie Spillet is the founder and executive director of Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc., a culturally based Aboriginal human resource organization that provides a range of programs and services to the Aboriginal community. She is also founder of the Keeping the Fires Burning movement which has worked for eight years to preserve, protect and promote the practice of indigenous cultures and the founder and former provincial President of the Mother of Red Nations Women’s Council, an advocacy organization for Aboriginal women. She is the winner of the YM/YWCA Women of Distinction Award, the Neeginan Institute of Applied Technology Vision Award and the Joe Zuken Citizen Activist Award. Ms. Spillet has sat on the board of many local organizations and was a part of the National Advisory Committee for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism |
| Alex Stearns Alex Stearns is a volunteer with the organization Winnipeg Copwatch.Winnipeg Copwatch is an independent, collectively-run group of volunteers working together to decrease police misconduct and increase police accountability. We go on foot patrols to non-violently observe and document interactions between police and civilians on the street. We use video cameras, still cameras and note-taking to deter police from violating people̓s' rights.Winnipeg Copwatch also hold Know Your Rights trainings and other workshops to help people become copwatchers in their own neighbourhoods. For more, see winnipegcopwatch.org |
| Victoria Tauli-Corpuz Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is a Kankana-ey Igorot from the Cordillera Region in the Philippines. Ms. Tauli-Corpuz is the Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). In 2004 she was appointed as member of the Advisory Panel of the 2nd Millennium Development Goals Report of the UN- Economic and Social Council of Asia-Pacific. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Tebtebba (Indigenous People's International Centre for Policy Research and Education) based in the Philippines; the Convener of the Asian Indigenous Women's Network; the co-president of the International Forum on Globalization; as well as the Indigenous and Gender Advisor of the Third World Network. She served as an advisor to the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor |
| Daniel Thau-Eleff Daniel Thau-Eleff is a volunteer with the organization Winnipeg Copwatch.Winnipeg Copwatch is an independent, collectively-run group of volunteers working together to decrease police misconduct and increase police accountability. We go on foot patrols to non-violently observe and document interactions between police and civilians on the street. We use video cameras, still cameras and note-taking to deter police from violating people̓s' rights.Winnipeg Copwatch also hold Know Your Rights trainings and other workshops to help people become copwatchers in their own neighbourhoods. For more, see winnipegcopwatch.org |
| Lorna Turnbull Lorna Turnbull is law professor at the University of Manitoba who has worked with UNPAC on the Gender Budget Project for several years. She teaches Income Tax Law and Policy as well as Human Rights Law and her research looks at how caring for dependent children (and others) impacts on women’s economic equality. |
| Elena Valdiviezo Gainza Dr. Valdiviezo has conducted research on access to education by vulnerable populations and consulted to UNICEF on educational reform in Peru and other Latin American countries, including Costa Rica, Bolivia, Bolivia and Honduras. |
| Susan Wadien Susan Wadien is newly hired to work as an educator and advocate for UNPAC. Susan is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg with a degree in International Development Studies. Susan recently spent a year in Thailand where she mentored Burmese women in advocacy and human rights. |
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Jerry Woods Jerry Woods is the Chairperson of the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and a proud member of the Bear Clan from the Couchiching First Nation. His spirit name is Ish Ka Dae Mukwa, which is Fire Bear in Ojibway. His background in the labour movement and his expertise as a negotiator serve him well as a strong advocate for Aboriginal employment and human rights issues. He continues to work in the community as an activist and strives for equitable outcomes with a dedication to improving the quality of life for all people. Jerry’s passion is golf, and his joy is his family, wife Cathy, their six children, and eight grand children. |
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