CFICE is happy to announce that our family is growing. In preparation for Phase II of the project, we are being joined by some new, talented experts who will contribute to our effort to strengthen communities in Canada through community-campus engagement (CCE). We’re very excited to be working with these new members and partners moving forward.
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New Program Committee Members
Jason Garlough
Jason Garlough started with CFICE as the main contact for the Community Environmental Sustainability (Ottawa) hub’s partner, the Ottawa Eco-Talent Network (OETN). He is now moving into a co-lead position as the community co-lead of the CCE Brokering working group‘s Ottawa table. Jason, who is the Executive Director of OETN, has been working with small Canadian businesses, non-profits and community-based organizations for the past sixteen years. He has a passion for helping organizations make better use of their existing resources and in 2012, he helped start Hidden Harvest Ottawa – a social enterprise – with the intent of helping Ottawa become a food-tree friendly city.
Adje van de Sande
Dr. van de Sande joins CFICE as the academic co-lead of the Community-Based Organization Tools working group. He is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at Carleton University. He is a prolific author and has published many articles and publications, including being the principal author of Statistics for Social Justice: A Structural Approach, published in 2015, and Research for Social Justice: A Community-Based Approach, published in 2011. He is also the Chair of the Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship, the Research Centre for the School of Social Work at Carleton University.
Kate Garvie
Kate Garvie joins CFICE as a community co-lead for the Community-Based Organization Tools working group. She is the Admin and Communications Coordinator for Deep Roots Food Hub, a rapidly growing organization in West Carleton that is committed to creating a resilient and equitable local food system. Previously, Kate was helping run a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) market garden near Campbellford, Ontario, and she still loves to get her hands dirty as often as possible.
Diana Bronson
Diana Bronson is a community co-lead of the CCE Brokering Food Sovereignty Table. Diana is the executive director for Food Secure Canada. She is trained as a political scientist and sociologist and has a professional background in journalism (CBC radio) and international human rights (Rights & Democracy) as well as international climate and technology negotiations at the UN (ETC Group.)
Amanda Wilson
Amanda Wilson is the lead community co-lead of the CCE Brokering Food Sovereignty Table. At Food Secure Canada, she coordinates the New Farmer Initiative. She also teaches Sociology at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. With a background in Global Development Studies and Labour Studies, she recently completed her PhD in Sociology with a Specialization in Political Economy at Carleton University. Her thesis focused on alternative food networks and how small-scale organic farmers both cope and prefigure: the challenges and opportunities farmers face in pursing social and environmental values while earning a living.
Maeve Lydon
Maeve Lydon is joining the Aligning Institutions for Community Impact working group as the community co-lead. Maeve works with the University of Victoria and other campuses and multi-sector groups on community-based research, capacity-building and partnership projects focused on sustainability, student and community engagement and empowerment, institutional accountability, and public policy. After 20 years as a non-profit program and centre coordinator focused on international development, human rights and sustainability, Maeve started working in the community-campus space, co-founding and serving as the program and partnership lead (Associate Director) in 2007 of the University of Victoria’s (UVic) Office of Community Based Research and Institute for Studies and Innovation in Community-University Engagement.
New Steering Committee Members
Jean-Marc Fontan
Joining our Steering Committee from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) is Dr. Jean-Marc Fontan. Dr. Fontan is a Ph.D. Professor of sociology at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and director of the Incubateur universitaire Parole d’excluEs (IUPE). He is an active research member of the Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES), a Québec research consortium dedicated to the study of social innovation and societal transformation. As director of the social innovation collection of the Presses de l’Université du Québec, he promotes the publication of a variety of studies on social innovation. He has over twenty years experience in community-based research with local and community development actors and has a significant number of publications and communications in this field.
Ingrid Waldron
Dr. Ingrid Waldron, PhD. is a sociologist, an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University, the Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (ENRICH Project), and an Associate Research Scholar for the Healthy Populations Institute in the Faculty of Health Professions at Dalhousie. Ingrid’s scholarship is driven by a long-standing interest in looking at the many manifestations of how spaces and communities are organized by structures of colonialism and gendered racial capitalism. Her work examines the link between histories of colonization, representations of race, gender, and class, structural violence, and health in racialized and Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia and Canada.
Bruce Gilbert
Bruce is a “Community Engagement Practitioner” and he has come to this position through a diverse array of work and volunteer experiences. Over the past eight years Bruce served as a member of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s (GNL) senior executive team. During this time, he worked as Assistant Deputy Minister of the Rural Secretariat (2008-13) and as Assistant Deputy Minister of the Office of Public Engagement (2013-16). In addition to his roles in government, Bruce has also been an avid contributor to the non-profit sector. He has has worked or volunteered internationally in South Africa, Namibia, Malawi, Togo, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Indonesia and Costa Rica. He is currently serving as volunteer policy expert on an Institute of Public Administration of Canada/CUSO supported green growth and youth entrepreneurship project in Nigeria.