Experience

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  Canadian armed forces / forces armées canadiennes

  Sept 1972 - Feb 1993

  Retired military officer

  Retired as a senior military officer at National Defence Headquarters and senior policy analyst for three Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Canadian Human Rights Commission legal challenges. Prior Deputy Commanding Officer and Personnel Selection Senior Advisor for Ontario and Hull, Quebec Recruiting Zone Headquarters; Organizational Dynamics Research Manager at the Canadian Forces Personnel Applied Research Unit; Principal Researcher for the 1977 CHRA and 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms SWINTER Trial Employment of Servicewomen in Non-Traditional Environments and Roles program evaluation; Canadian Forces Bases Borden and Downsview, and Canadian Forces Recruiting and Selection Unit London Ontario Personnel Selection Officer. Author of 32 military research publications, conference papers, and book chapters. Show less

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  Servicewomen's salute - hommage aux femmes militaires canada

  Mar 1992 - now

  Founder and lead organizer

  Servicewomen's Salute - Hommage Aux Femmes Militaires Canada mission is to know, honour, care and strengthen the contribution of military women to Canada. As a volunteer collaboration for Canadian servicewomen and supporters since 1992, Servicewomen's Salute hosts formal commemoration, celebration and networking events, informed support and voice for military women, and original and collaborative women veteran research projects. As founder of Servicewomen's Salute, examples include 2023 and 2024 witness testimonies to House of Commons Veterans Affairs Standing Committee; organizing collaborations creating Oral history and digital story narrative collections filling large gaps in servicewomen's history with partner university researchers, military museums and Library Archives Canada; October 2023 Servicewomen Aspire and Inspire Ottawa Ontario networking event for 37 women veteran supporting organizations and artists; project manager for 2018-2023 Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University - Servicewomen's Salute Portal Project completing 35 unique research and information sharing projects; and member of Veterans Affairs Canada 2020-2021 COVID-19 Working Group, 2021-2023 VAC Women and LGBTQ2S Veterans Forum committee member, and lead organizer of 2019 Canada 150 Canadian War Museum and 1992 Canada 125 Parliament Hill Servicewomen's Salute Commemoration Dinners. Show less

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  Aurora childrens centre

  Jan 1994 - Jan 2006

  Chair of the board of directors

  Two Child Care Centres operating in Aurora Ontario since 1988 offering play based, theme based, all-day and summer camp programs for over 250 children ages 18 months to 12 years.Past Chair, Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Board member

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  York region community foundation

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2012

  Founding chair, past chair, board member, volunteer

  Also co-chair of YRCF's Vital Signs 2011 Living in York Region report.YRCF established 14 permanent endowment, scholarship, and flow-through funds for charitable organizations and York Region residents, plus non-profit sector research analyses, workshops before merging with the Toronto [Community] Foundation in 2014.

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  York community resources group

  Jun 2005 - Dec 2017

  Founding chair

  Founder of YCRG non-profit community development services including support of Servicewomen's Salute, and creation of CIVICYork Community Collective. YCRG previously created and operated Information Aurora, Aurora Volunteer Centre, Aurora Community Fund, and projects including York North Children and Youth Network, Aurora Children and Youth Fair, Newmarket Huron Heights Secondary School Community Resources and Learning Room, and York Region Community Foundation.

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  Civicyork services

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2018

  Chair board of directors

  Founding member of CIVICYork (www.civicyork.ca) providing online and in-person Community Information, Volunteer York Region, Storytelling York Region, WeReportYork community reporting, and Collaborate York project collaboration services and products.

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  Inform ontario

  Jan 2010 - Jun 2017

  Past treasurer and board member

  Past Treasurer, and Board member, continuing IO Annual Symposium committee memberSouth York Pilot Lead for the IO 2012-2015 Building Local Information Support for Ontario Newcomers (BLISON) project. Inform Ontario represents over 35 Community Information Centres and associated Information and Referral Providers around the province of Ontario, and Winnipeg Manitoba.

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  Aurora community fund

  May 2010 - now

  Founding donor

  Founder and permanent member of the Fund Council, providing endowed annual grants to charitable organizations strengthening Aurora's community and its residents. Now managed by the Toronto Foundation.

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  Chats-yrcivc-yrdsb making connections storytelling york region project

  Apr 2015 - Jul 2017

  Project manager

  Project manager for the 2015-2017 "Making Connections Storytelling York Region" inter-generational project for seniors and youth in York Region providing participants' storytelling, oral history interview, basic digital literacy, digital storytelling, and community reporter skills learning and end-products. Delivered by three primary Collaborative Partners - Community Home Assistance to Seniors (CHATS), CIVICYork (York Region Community Information and Volunteer Centre), and York Region District School Board, and supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Show less

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  Employment and social development canada

  Aug 2017 - Sept 2018

  Canada's volunteer awards national advisory committee member

  Two-year appointment to Canada's Volunteer Awards National Advisory Committee to serve as one of 13 Canadians with extensive knowledge of volunteering and Canada's volunteer sector to recommend annual recipients of the Therese Casgrain national award, plus 5 Canadian regions' community, emerging, business, and social innovator leader awards. The Committee uses its networks to also support the promotion of the Canada’s Volunteer Awards program.