Stephanie Sobek-Swant

Executive Director

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Laura Eckhardt

Manager, Finance & Administration

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Kim

Administrative Coordinator

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Christine Thompson

Major Gifts Manager

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James Bow

Communications Officer

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Nancy Campbell

Bookkeeper

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Sara Clark

Events & Development Coordinator

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Aleksandra Dolezal

Conservation Scientist – Research Priorities, Partnerships & Monitoring

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Alissa Fraser

Conservation Technician

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Taryn Jarvis

Gill Ratcliffe Gardens & Facilities Coordinator

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Michelle MacMillan

Educator

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Rosalind Snyder

Conservation Technician Intern

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Istafa Sufi

Senior Educator

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Maisy Winn

Administrative Assistant

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Tom Woodcock

Planning Ecologist

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Leadership

Board of Directors

Brian McGee

Chartered Accountant; Partner, Zeifman & Company LLP

Claire Mussar

B.A. Customer Service and Hospitality Specialist, Social Media Manager, Environment Enthusiast

David Agro

Architect, Conservationist

Joy Roberts

Ph.D., Chair of the Board; Musagetes Foundation Board Chair

Karen Hacker

LL.B., ICD.D.

Keith Ainsworth

Electrical Engineer; retired CEO, COM DEV International

Madhur Anand

Professor, University of Guelph; Executive Director, Guelph Institute of Environmental Research

Goverance Advisor

David R. Beatty

C.M., OBE, MA, CFA

International Ambassadors

David Agro

Architect; conservationist

David Buckland

Founder, Cape Farewell capefarewell.com; Director of Art from a Changing Arctic

Ed Burtynsky

OC; Photographer; Subject of award-winning documentary, Manufactured Landscapes

Frances Westley

Chair of Social Innovation Generation

Geneviève Caron

Award-winning Photographer

Gerry Remers

Former President and COO, Christie Digital Canada & former co-chair Communitech

Jane Urquhart

OC; Author Frances Westley, Chair of Social Innovation Generation

Kehkashan Basu

Founder, Green Hope Foundation

Ljubodrag Andric

Photographer

Louise MacCallum

Retired Software Engineer; Philanthropist; Founder, Musagetes Foundation R.

Michael Barnstijn

Retired Partner, RIM; Philanthropist; Founder, Musagetes Foundation

Ron Dembo

Founder, Zerofootprint

Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Executive Director, David Suzuki Foundation

Environmental Advisory Committee

Tony Zammit

Aquatic & Terrestrial Ecologist, Grand River Conservation Authority

Brett Woodman

Terrestrial & Wetland Biologist, Natural Resource Solutions Inc.

Bill Wilson

retired Teacher; Naturalist; Bird Monitoring Coordinator, rare

Christopher Watts

retired Teacher; Naturalist; Bird Monitoring Coordinator, rare

Don Russell

Qalipu Mi’kmaq/Acadian French Artist

Stephen Murphy

Professor and Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Environment & Resource Studies, University of Waterloo

Justin Gaudon

Policy Advisor, Forest Management at Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Education Advisory Committee (EDAC)

Dan Schneider

Outdoor Educator & Naturalist, GRCA, retired

Lynda McCarthy

Professor, Ryerson University

Matthew Suhadolc

U-Turn Diversion Teacher, Waterloo Region District School Board

Morrigan Everatt

Graduate Student, Ryerson University

Eastern Comma Committee

Elwood Jimmy

Musagetes Program Coordinator

Karen Houle

Poet & Philosopher, University of Guelph

Shawn Van Sluys

Executive Director, Musagetes

Research Advisory Committee

David Lieberman

Associate Professor, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto

John Straube

Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo

Rick Haldenby

Professor, Architecture, University of Waterloo

Stephen Murphy

Professor and Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Environment & Resource Studies, University of Waterloo

Campaign and Community Cabinet

Carolyn Meili

President, Stonefields Management

David Mitten

Retired; Executive Director, Siding & Window Dealers Association of Canada

Dean Peroff

LLP, Partner, Peroff Professional Group

Douglas McMullen

FCPA, FCA; retired, Sr. V.P. CIBC

Hugh Thompson

CEO, Thompson Centre for Art & Design

Irene Schmidt-Adeney

Writer, Ayr News

Jackie Hatherly-Martin

FCPA FCA, SHAD Canada

John English

CM; FRSC; Director, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Trinity College/ Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

John K. Bell,

FCPA, FCA; Chairman, The Onbelay Group

Joy Roberts

Ph.D., Chair of the Board; Musagetes Foundation Board Chair

Keith Ainsworth

CPA CA, HM Advisors

Keith Martin

CPA CA, HM Advisors

Paul Ross

Partner, KPMG

Rob Connell

Partner, KPMG

Sheila Ainsworth

Chair, Lisaard House

Thiam Lim

Former rare Board Member

Valerie Hall

Retired President, Stonefields Management

Volunteering and Consulting Advisors

David Beatty

C.M., OBE, MA, CFA

John Baljkas

Graphic design consultant, MFA, RGD Affiliate Member, Professor, Conestoga College

Joy Roberts

Ph.D., Chair of the Board; Musagetes Foundation Board Chair

Ken Dance

President, Dance Environmental Inc.

Rita Ross

Development Consultant

Valerie Hall

Retired President, Stonefields Management

Raresites Land Securement Team

Bill Mungall

Retired

Chris Gosselin

Retired Manager of Environmental Planning, Region of Waterloo

Graham Buck

Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry

Greg C. Michalenko

Grand River Environmental Network

Kevin Butt

Nature Guelph

Lauren Jones

Six Nations of the Grand River

Meaghan Eastwood

Manager, Planning and Sustainability Region of Waterloo

Roger Suffling

Waterloo Region Nature

Tony Zammit

Aquatic & Terrestrial Ecologist, Grand River Conservation Authority

Emeritus

Alan Morgan

Professor Emeritus, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo

Angela Tsementzis

Architect; B.E.S. B.Arch, OAA, LEED AP

Colleen Mercer Clarke

Coastal Ecologist, Landscape Architect, University of Waterloo

Doug Larson

Professor Emeritus, College of Biological Sciences, University of Guelph

Gerald Achtymichuk

Family Physician, retired

Larry Lamb

Vegetation Specialist, Emeritus Adjunct Lecturer, Fellow at Renison College, Manager of the Ecology Lab, Faculty of Env., University of Waterloo

Paul Koch

Marketing & Management Consultant; Civic entrepreneur, Ottawa

Peter Krause

President, Krause Corporate Solutions

Our Team

Stephanie Sobek-Swant

Laura Eckhardt

Kim

Christine Thompson

James Bow

Nancy Campbell

Sara Clark

Aleksandra Dolezal

Alissa Fraser

Taryn Jarvis

Michelle MacMillan

Rosalind Snyder

Istafa Sufi

Maisy Winn

Tom Woodcock

Leadership