From promoting the Francophonie culture to participating in the upcoming Sierra Leone elections monitoring, I am proud to promote Canadian values in West Africa. I am also committed to gender equality efforts in diplomacy by serving as the Women’s Network Co-Chair at GAC leading the largest employment equity group to empower women in leadership roles. I am passionate about Canadian foreign policy, the United Nations, and diversity issues.

I am a former Action Canada Fellow ’22 and current Board Member that organized the 20^th anniversary of the Action Canada alumni conference. In my spare time I run marathons, snowboard at Whistler, and volunteered for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. I am a graduate of Princeton and Cambridge universities and recipient of the Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan.

As a student, she joined the Alpha Eta chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta and served in numerous elected roles advocating for students, including as Vice President Internal of the Dalhousie Student Union and President of the graduate student association, where she focused on addressing gender-based violence and mental health support. She served as Co-President of her PSAC Union Local (86001) representing grant-paid employees at Dalhousie University for two years (2022-24). She has since sought to expand this work in the community serving on the board of Fusion Halifax to support young professionals coming together to improve their communities.

She worked for six years as a researcher at the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance where she has worked to engage academics, industry leaders, and the public with policy issues. Her work at the MacEachen Institute has focused on accessibility issues in Canada’s emergency management response to improve the experience of persons with disabilities. She has also been conducting research analyzing the Government’s response to COVID-19 and is an author of the book Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19 (McGill-Queens University Press). Currently, Kaitlynne works as a Research Manager at Mount Saint Vincent University on a SSHRC-funded project exploring access to post-secondary education in Atlantic Canda for youth who have experience in care.

Kate also works with the WRHA Palliative Care Program in Winnipeg, and volunteers at Saul Sair Health Center, as a walk-in physician serving Winnipeg’s homeless population. Her work with underserved populations has led to an interest in public policy.

Prior to joining PCO, she held various policy positions in the Federal Public Service in the departments of Employment and Social Development Canada, Infrastructure Canada and Elections Canada.

She is also known for co-founding the inaugural 2019 Toronto Black Policy Conference; a policy-driven forum aimed to provide unique opportunities to collaborate, innovate and find sustainable solutions for policy issues affecting Toronto’s Black communities. The success of the conference led her to co-found the Canadian Black Policy Network (CBPN) in 2020, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhance the engagement of Canada’s Black communities in the public policy process. She is currently the Co-Executive Director at CBPN.
Sharnelle Morgan holds a Masters of Public Policy from the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, in addition to a Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management with a specialization in Development studies from Carleton University’s Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs.

Sandra has lectured at McGill University and was recruited in 2021 by Canada World Youth to act as a mentor to the finalists of the Innovation-Challenge. Sandra has a deep desire to be part of Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, a page of history that she hopes is finally being shaped like never before.

She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Concordia + UNGE of Equatorial Guinea + University of Ottawa combined program), a Graduate Diploma in International Business (McGill) and an MBA (University of Ottawa).

Originally from La Montérégie in Quebec, Sandra proudly lives in Montreal, an inclusive urban city, where francophones, anglophones and allophones live as neighbors. With her partner, an Acadian from New-Brunswick, she is the mother of two. She is avid for the Hispanic culture and has made the choice to raise her children by speaking to them in Spanish as well.

His goals are to support the implementation of UNDRIP, the revitalization of Indigenous legal orders, and the braiding of Indigenous laws into Canada’s legal system.

Before entering law school, Josh worked for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities supporting inclusive economic development partnerships between First Nations and local governments across Canada. He has supported collaborative initiatives in investor attraction, renewable energy, infrastructure development, land planning, and emergency management. He has also held legislative and policy roles on Parliament Hill and for the British Consulate-General in Jerusalem.

Josh is an active volunteer in his community as a Big Brother and supporting new refugee families. True to his northern roots, he loves all four seasons, being outside, and playing music with friends.

In recent years, Kharoll-Ann has become particularly known for her activism against sexual violence against women and for promotion of mental health. She has been a sought after speaking since 2015. Kharoll-Ann is regularly called upon to participate in the media on themes related to her areas of expertise in both English and French.

For her commitment, Kharoll-Ann has received some twenty community and university awards including the Young Woman of Merit award from the Montreal YWCA, the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award and the Relève award from the Ordre des travailleurs sociaux du Québec. She was named one of the most distinguished personalities of 2016 by the Journal de Montréal and ELLE Québec magazine. Winner of Black History Month in 2020, Kharoll-Ann was included in a list of 100 black women to watch across the country published on the occasion of the Canada International Black Women Event.

Often described as a quiet force, Kharoll-Ann aspires to a career in teaching and university research in social work. Through each of her actions, she fervently wishes to embody the adult she needed when she was younger, for the greatest number of people.

Alongside her efforts in Canada, Helen has worked in research consultancy and advisory capacities on a range of international development, humanitarian and peace and security issues. These include transitional justice and Track II diplomacy, education for development, and the role of diasporas in Canadian foreign policy. She has authored reports or supported research for organizations such as African Union, Mosaic Institute, Global Campaign for Education, Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and United Nations University for Peace.

She attended McMaster University for Hons. B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science and OISE/UT for an M.A. in Theory and Policy Studies in comparative, international and development education. She holds a certificate in Executive Non-Profit Management from the Stanford University School of Business and is currently an LLM Candidate in Constitutional Law at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Tatheer is also on the Board of a local non-profit, Carty House, which provides transitional housing for women asylum seekers. She additionally led the Canadian Youth Delegation to the OECD 2018 Forum in Paris, France, and was a delegate with the Young Canadian Leaders Delegation to Germany in December 2018.

Tatheer holds a Masters of Science in Migration Studies from St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford and a Bachelors in Public Affairs and Policy Management from Carleton University.

After a brief stay in Toronto, he moved with his wife to the Yukon in 2009. After a contract with the Council of Yukon First Nations, he joined the territorial public service in 2011 where he supported various departments for ten years in the area of policy analysis. In 2021, he joined the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada where he is currently the Director of Corporate Services for the Yukon Region.

Involved in his community, he was elected vice-president of the Association franco-yukonnaise in June 2011. In 2013, he was elected school trustee of the Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon (CSFY) and assumed the presidency of the council of commissioners in 2015. During his presidency, the CSFY signed a settlement agreement with the Government of Yukon in 2020 and opened Yukon’s first French-language secondary school the same year: Centre scolaire secondaire communautaire Paul-Émile-Mercier. Active on the national scene, he has represented the CSFY on the board of directors of the Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires (FNCSF) since 2015 and was, from 2019 to 2021, second vice-president of this organization.

In addition to his involvement with the francophone community, Mr. Blais has served on numerous boards of directors including the Board of Directors of the Yukon Human Rights Commission. He currently sits on the boards of the Yukon Liquor Corporation and Action Canada.  In 2020, Jean-Sébastien Blais was named a Fellow of Action Canada by the Public Policy Forum in recognition of his leadership. The same year, Francopresse recognized him as one of the ten influential personalities of the Canadian Francophonie.

Mr. Blais is married to Dorothy Williams, a teacher. Together they are the parents of three children.

Gabrielle earned an engineering degree from McMaster University. She was heavily engaged with engineering outreach in parallel to her studies, developing and executing programming for young people across Canada. Gabrielle also spent three years working as the inaugural Outreach Officer for the University of Oxford’s engineering department. Through this work she developed an appreciation of the institutional barriers many young people face outside of education in reaching their potential. Gabrielle now works to demystify our governmental institutions through her YouTube channel. She speaks in long-form about Canadian civics and issues of the day in a way that is entertaining and engaging. She invites Canadians to join her on her journey of learning the common language of government, current governmental structures, and how these structures can be shaped with care to build a society that works for people.

Gabrielle started her professional career at Deloitte after winning an interview at the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference. Gabrielle currently works for Jacobs, a multinational engineering firm, and has been involved with projects including sewer rehabilitation, waterfront redevelopment, and transit operations.

Recently, Chardaye spent six months within Deloitte Canada’s Corporate Responsibility office, where she helped grow Deloitte’s pro-bono advisory work across Canada. Previously, she supported public sector organizations to better serve vulnerable citizens through strategic and technology-focused initiatives.

Chardaye holds a Master’s degree focused in global affairs, obtained as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts focused in political science from Simon Fraser University. Chardaye has worked within the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and served as President of the Simon Fraser Student Society.

In her free time, Chardaye serves as Chairperson of a national non-profit and is a member of her local World Economic Forum Global Shapers Hub. She is also enthusiast about running, podcasts, and comedy.

Chardaye currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is proud to have been born and raised in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Pendant son temps libre, Mme Bueckert est présidente d’une organisation nationale à but non lucratif et membre de la plateforme locale de façonneurs du World Economic Forum. Elle est également passionnée de la course à pied, de balados et de comédies.

Mme Bueckert réside actuellement à Vancouver (Colombie-Britannique). Elle est fière d’être née et d’avoir été élevée à Medicine Hat, en Alberta.

De Luna holds a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Toronto, a MSc in Chemistry from the University of Ottawa, and a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Windsor. He is a 2019 Forbes Top 30 Under 30 – Energy, a GreenBiz Top 30 Under 30, a Governor General’s Gold Medalist, a 2020 Mission Innovation Champion for Canada, a Creative Destruction Lab Mentor, an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholar, a Massey College Junior Fellow, and a CIFAR Bio-Inspired Solar Energy Graduate Fellow.

An Action Canada 2020-21 Fellow and a 2020 MIT Policy Hackathon winner, Fadi thrives at the nexus of academic theory and technology policy practice, drawing on his engineering background. He has spearheaded technology policy research with McGill’s Max Bell School, and his writings have been featured in PPF, Policy Options, and MIT SPR.

An incoming Fulbrighter with MIT’s Senseable City Lab, he will harness massive data sets to investigate Canada-US Main Streets’ central role in urban vitality and equity. A proud long-time resident of Old Montreal’s Main Street with his husband, Fadi finds inspiration from the city’s vibrant character during his daily walking commutes.

Doug maintains a busy volunteer presence in the community. He currently serves on the boards of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and the Northwest Community Legal Clinic, as President of the Rainy River District Law Association, and as Co-Chair of the Borderland Pride festival. He has previously served on the executive of the Ontario Bar Association’s sexual orientation and gender identity section, on the Law Society of Ontario’s Equity Advisory Group, as President of the Law Students’ Society of Ontario, and on the board of Start Proud, a non-profit serving LGBTQ2 students and young professionals.

Doug is a graduate of the JD/MBA program at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business, and holds degrees in political science (BSocSc) and commerce (Hon. BCom) from the University of Ottawa. He has also studied at Lakehead University, the London School of Economics, Monash University (at Prato, Italy), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

As an American-born, Toronto-raised transplant to Prince Edward Island who has found his heart in Charlottetown, John is an advocate on PEI for solutions that improve education, fitness, entrepreneurial, and social outcomes with his participation in Boards including Pride PEI, Fusion Charlottetown, The Charlottetown Film Society, Videogames PEI, the Canadian Interactive Alliance, The ORDER of The Wallace McCain Institute, and with the PEI organizers of TechStars Startup Weekend. Outside of his work optimizing customer experiences at RevIQ for his clients, his passion projects include finding a permanent community enterprise to engage PEI’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community with a permanent venue, developing a speechtext-focused syntactic interpretation tool to permit synchronous fact-checking in political debates, and working with business owners across Atlantic Canada to harmonize the small business investor tax credits across the Greater Atlantic Area. When he’s not travelling internationally to visit global clients, John spends his time downhill skiing, sailing, or – when the weather isn’t cooperating – catching a retro flick at Charlottetown’s City Cinema.

Passionate about community-centred policy strategies, she joined Power Lab in 2019, where she supports knowledge translation and learning activities to build fair local economies. Concerned with equity focused policy, she worked at Toronto City Hall as a Political Staff in the office of Toronto’s former Poverty Reduction Advocate. As the lead staff on the Poverty Reduction file, she supported a variety of policy initiatives, including the 5-part Tackle Poverty TO public consultations and the launch of the Fare Pass Discount Program for low-income residents. Her previous work in the non-profit sector s panned a variety of areas, including, healthy public policy, public arts, community planning, housing and climate policy.

As Chair of Food Secure Canada and a member of the Toronto Food Policy Council, she has participated in several national and municipal food policy processes, including the development of Canada’s first national food policy. A strong proponent of youth leadership development, she served as Chair of the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council for several years, building the capacity of underrepresented youth to shape municipal policy decisions.

Recently named Canada’s Delegate for the 53rd UN Commission on Population and Development, she successfully shaped Canada’s position on food security and nutrition to prioritize the needs of food workers and Canada’s most food-insecure populations impacted by COVID-19. Melana is also a member of the municipal Food Communities Network Leaders Table, and an Advisor to the Global Agritecture Xchange.

Native to Toronto, she believes the future of Canada depends on building more equitable and inclusive cities, and has used art as a tool to tackle that mission. As a Curator and mentor she has led a number of youth-focused arts initiatives on themes of immigration, Reconciliation, and anti-Black racism to inform policy, including the Ward Museum’s Block By Block and the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Scratch and Mix Arts Exhibition.

Melana also holds leadership positions as Vice Chair of Cycle Toronto, a Director for Carrot Cache, and a proud member of the Toronto Black Food Sovereignty Initiative. A community organizer at heart, she has raised $5-7M annually for education and health initiatives abroad as the Director of Marketing, Media and Communications for the Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s World Partnership Walk; and has volunteered on community health projects in Guatemala, Guyana and Ecuador throughout her studies. Melana has a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Global Development Studies, with a certificate in International Studies from Queens University, and was the recipient of the Paavo & Aino Lukkari Human Rights Award for her Masters research in Development Studies from York University.

Sandra, who was born in Rwanda and survived the genocide of the Tutsi, has spent most of her life in Montréal and is currently living in Ottawa. Her personal journey led to her involvement in a research project by Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History entitled “Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and Other Human Rights Violations.” This project brought together university researchers and a group of community representatives, of which she was a volunteer member. Sandra has also served as a volunteer vice-president of PAGE-Rwanda (Association des parents et amis des victimes du génocide au Rwanda—the association of parents and friends of Rwandan genocide victims), an organization that welcomes and guides newcomers who survived the genocide of the Tutsi, and organizes educational activities on genocide for the Canadian public.

Since 2013, she has occupied the role of Chief Administrative Officer for a small, rural, francophone and Acadian municipality in New Brunswick called Rogersville, her hometown. She is fervent in the pursuit of creative solutions to public challenges, and she considers herself a passionate feminist and a minority rights activist. She lives in Collette, New Brunswick with her partner and two children.