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Munk Centre for Global Affairs
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Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3K7
Canada

Dr. Carolyn Harris

Dr. Carolyn Harris teaches history at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She received her PhD in European history from Queen's University in 2012. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including the Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Smithsonian Magazine, and the BBC News Magazine, and she is a frequent guest on television and radio. She lives in Toronto. Her first book, Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada, was published by Dundurn Press in 2015.

Kristyn Wong-Tam

Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam has an extensive career investing in the City of Toronto through both the public and private sectors. Her contributions have led to the development and support of numerous social planning programs, business ventures, art endeavours and successful community initiatives. Prior to being elected to City Council in 2010, Councillor Wong-Tam was an accomplished real estate professional and supporter of the arts.

Naz Gocek

Naz Gocek is a grade 11 student at Branksome Hall, an all-girls school in Toronto. She grew up in Turkey, and moved to Canada 4 years ago. She is an accomplished public speaker and debater who has placed at national and international tournaments. Although she was always passionate about human rights and equality, her interest in feminism developed when she started at Branksome. There, she started to question why she had not heard of this term before and why there seemed to be so much debate about it. Her hobbies, besides learning about feminism and debating, include photography, writing, travelling and discovering new restaurants with her friends.

Sonia Molodecky

Sonia Molodecky is Co-Founder and President of the Global Indigenous Development Trust, an international development organization comprised of leading Aboriginal leaders, which focuses on empowering indigenous communities with the tools to contributed to sustainable economic development and participatory processes in the natural resource sector. After a successful career as a corporate lawyer managing large, multi-stakeholder projects in the natural resource sector at Canada's largest law firm, and as national chair of the firm's Latin American Group, Sonia found a need for a more balanced approach to resource development where indigenous peoples are empowered participants in Latin America's resource boom.

Vanessa Reid

Vanessa Reid (M.Arch) is a pioneering leader who brings her unique brand of artistry to the field of social innovation. Vanessa creates cultures - personal, organizational, societal - that are alive and deeply aligned with all of life. This includes working with transitions, transformation and the natural cycles of life - from the mess and excitement of discovering the new to hospicing endings through the practice of Conscious Closure. She is a co-founder of the Living Wholeness Institute, which supports, hosts and co-creates emergent social movements and systemic transformation initiatives across the globe especially related to collapsing systems.

Yvonne Bambrick

Yvonne Bambrick is an Urban Cycling Consultant, event & portrait Photographer, Executive Director of the Forest Hill Village Business Improvement Area (BIA), and author of The Urban Cycling Survival Guide. She serves as a Director on the Kensington Market Action Committee, and as a member of the Metcalf Foundation's Cycle City Advisory Committee. She was the founding Executive Director of the Toronto Cyclists Union (now Cycle Toronto), the original Community Animator at the Centre for Social Innovation, and co-creator/coordinator of Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market. Yvonne is a contributor to Momentum, Dandyhorse and Precedent magazines, and is the caretaker the Kensington Market Garden Car.