I’m the chair of the board of Vancity Credit Union, and of our national bank, Vancity Community Investment Bank. I bring more than three decades of governance, financial management and regulatory experience to the board table. Like many of you, I’ve been a member of a credit union since opening my first account as a child in Nelson, BC.

First elected to Vancity in 2016, I’ve also served as the chair and/or a director of Canada’s largest consumer cooperative, as well as of several non-profit organizations including Oxfam Canada, the Vancity Community Foundation, the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre, and Canadian Parents for French – National. I launched my career as a human rights investigator, and served as an adjudicator on several administrative justice tribunals including the British Columbia Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal, and the Property Assessment Review Panel. Through these roles, I’ve navigated a range of regulatory environments, and stewarded the values, strategy and growth of organizations with billions in assets.

Over the past decade, I’ve led reform in Canada’s healthcare regulatory sector, seeking ways to ease the entry of internationally educated healthcare professionals into our beleaguered workforce. And, until recently, I was the executive director of the Nursing Community Assessment Service (Inspire Assessments) within BC’s largest health regulator, the BC College of Nurses and Midwives. Whether as a senior executive, program officer or as a volunteer in the non-profit, social justice community, I’ve worked alongside racialized and marginalized populations, as well as small business owners, women, farmers and youth, to build and sustain movements for climate, economic and social change. I’m also thrilled to have been a co-founder of the Pacific Refugee Welcome Group, a community organization that has sponsored the settlement of several refugee families to Victoria.

I’m a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors – Rotman School of Business Director Education Program, through which I gained my ICD.D designation. I also hold a Master of Arts in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa, and a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University. My first love is writing, and my pieces have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The London Free Press, among other media. I’m ever grateful to the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples for their careful stewardship of the traditional territories upon which I live, work, and have raised my two children.

Throughout my career, I’ve been proud to promote the transformative work of some wonderful community partners including First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition