Cassie Bell is the proud mother of four children whose achievements and challenges motivate her passionate advocacy for an equitable and well-resourced public education system for all children. Cassie currently works with the Toronto District School Board's Inner City Advisory Committee as the group's co-ordinator , having earlier assisted with the production of the Model Schools for Inner Cities Task Force Report (May 2005), which saw the launch of a major program in the TDSB to support equitable outcomes for students in inner city communities across Toronto. Cassie formerly worked as a secondary school teacher and is currently attending the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto part-time to complete a Masters Degree in Urban Education.
Pat Davidson is a founding director, of Camp Oochigeas, a summer camp for children affected by cancer located in Muskoka. At Camp Oochigeas Ms. Davidson was the board chair, and also a camp counsellor. For 15 years, Mrs. Davidson was an information and referral volunteer with New Directions, an agency that helps newly single women rebuild their lives. Ms. Davidson is the Executive Producer and an adult facilitator with Kids Care (2005) and was the Executive Producer of How Can We Love You? (2001). She has also trained as a nurse at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Pat Davidson is the President of the Sky Works Charitable Foundation Board of Directors.
Scott Douglas has been a volunteer at Sky Works for years originally through his mother Mary Sue Douglas who was featured in and worked with the documentary How Can We Love You? He was also part of Kids Care. Scott has worked at TELUS for ten years and is currently a business consultant to TELUS sales channels with a focus on training and developing national programs. He has also worked in sports marketing and played for the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the CFL. He is married to Alyssa and has two children and is a true outdoorsman.
Lyn Gaetz is a recently retired principal with the Toronto District School Board. As well as administrating a school and developing strong relationships with students, staff and parents, Lyn mentored new administrators, developed support for beginning teachers and worked in the areas of Equitable and Safe and Caring Schools. Lyn serves on the Board at Trinity- St. Paul's United Church and chairs the committee that is spearheading the development of the Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts at Trinity-St. Paul's. Lyn is studying to complete her Masters of Theological Studies degree at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. Lyn has 3 adult children and 4 grandchildren. She is building a house in Haliburton with Greg, her husband of 43 years. They plan to split their time between downtown Toronto and Haliburton, enjoying the best of both worlds.
Philip Hebert, BA MA MD PhD FCFPC is a Professor of Family Medicine at University of Toronto, a Bioethics Consultant and Chair of the Research Ethics Board at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He has been involved with medical education and teaching ethics since 1988 and has been a full-time family physician with the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre since 1989. He received the William Marsden Award from the Canadian Medical Association in 2008 for his contribution to ethics education in Canada and teaches widely on many aspects of bioethics. The 2nd edition of Mr. Hébert's book, Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Physicians & Medical Trainees was published by Oxford University Press in 2009.
Sara Jackman (MSW) is a retired clinical social worker having worked in mental health clinic, hospital and private practice settings. Volunteer work has included Board member and Vice Chair of Bond Street Nursery School (Toronto's first subsidized inner city nursery school), The Supportive Housing Coalition, Wellspring fundraising committee, and volunteer facilitator for Kids' Care. She has one son and two step-children, 3 grandsons, and a husband who doesn't want to be described as semi-retired and three residences (there should be some kind of important certification attached to all of that).
Tracey Macey is a human resources professional with a 23 year career history in retail, advertising and manufacturing. Currently she is an independent consultant, coach and recruiter. Previously she was a human resources executive at Canadian Tire Corporation. Tracey has a BA in psychology from York University and a Masters in Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto. She is a trained professional coach through the Adler School of Professional Coaching.
Janet Mosher is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Her research and teaching interests are primarily in the areas of violence against women, poverty and access to justice for disadvantaged populations. She is a former Director of Osgoode's Intensive Program in Poverty Law at Parkdale Community Legal Services, and a former Director of the University of Toronto's combined Law and Social Work degree program. Current research initiatives emphasize access to justice, including a project with youths on "Safe Schools", work for the Law Commission of Canada on a new policy framework, and a project examining how the lives of low income women are regulated by the State through the social assistance regime, and welfare fraud in particular.
Colleen Richards most honoured achievement has been raising her three children with her husband. Before moving to Brampton, Colleen was actively involved in her community of Windsor, ON, where she volunteered at schools, churches and with community groups. She was on the Board of Directors of the Health Canada project, 'Ready, Set, Go!' for five years and did a one-year term as Board Chair. Colleen and her family were participants in the SkyWorks documentary Home Safe Toronto (2009) and she is a volunteer facilitator for the film. Colleen currently works for Brampton Transit, actively volunteers at her church and with Restorative Justice for Woman.
Denny Young (M.A., CFRE) is the Senior Director of Development for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Denny also teaches nonprofit marketing at Ryerson University and office management in Humber College's Fundraising and Volunteer Management Program. Mr. Young has a Masters in Philanthropy and Development from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and, in 2008, completed the Ivey School of Business Executive Program where he focused on ways to improve the collaborative opportunities between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Denny sits on the Board of the Maquila Solidarity Network and serves as Education Chair for Congress 2011, a professional development conference of the Toronto Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.