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Dr. Karen Somerville

President | Performance Plus Group, President, Canadians for Properly Built Homes

Organizational change, organizational culture, executive coaching, executive presence, leadership, governance, women on boards, consumer advocacy re newly built home issues

Dr. Nadine Ibrahim

Lecturer, Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering | University of Waterloo

Climate change, Sustainable cities, Urban engineering, Greenhouse gas emissions, Sustainable infrastructure, Urban infrastructure

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Dr. Leela Viswanathan

Associate Professor, Department of Planning and Geography | Queen's University

Leela Viswanathan teaches topics about social planning, planning history, qualitative research methods, and urban geography.

Dana Stefov

Women's Rights Policy and Advocacy Specialist | Oxfam Canada

women's economic justice, decent work for women, the care economy, paid and unpaid care work, childcare, labour rights, gender wage gap, pay equity, gender-based violence in the workplace, sexual and reproductive health and rights, right to safe abortion, feminist movement, grassroots feminism, feminist analysis

Mallory Greene

CEO & Co-Founder | Eirene

technology, startups, funerals, cremation, social responsibility, end-of-life