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Allison Sandmeyer-Graves

CEO | Canadian Women & Sport

Women and sport, Gender equity, Gender equality, Women and sport leadership, Women and coaching, Women on boards

Ellen Wiebe

Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice | University of British Columbia

Gynaecology, abortion, assisted death, MAiD (medical assistance in dying)

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Lorin MacDonald

Founder & CEO; Human Rights Lawyer & Disability Advocate | HearVue Inc.

accessibility, disability, equity, inclusion, human rights, human rights law, social enterprise, captioning, COVID-19 impact on Canadians living with disabilities

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Professor Françoise Baylis

Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita | Dalhousie University

Professor Baylis researches matters related to ethics, health law and policy of assisted human reproduction, embryo research, heritable human genome editing and novel genetic technologies. She is the author of Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing. COVID19 -- She has expertise in public health ethics, with a focus on those who are socially and economically disadvantaged.

Dr. Catherine Connelly

Professor, Human Resources and Management & Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Organizational Behaviour | DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

Dr. Catherine Connelly's research focuses on the attitudes, behaviours, and experiences of non-standard workers