Katherine Weaver has been involved in social justice and access to justice work for many years, both in her career and as a volunteer.  Her work with low-income persons and communities has included policy and research, advocacy, service development, public education and direct client service delivery.  

Katherine holds graduate degrees in both Public Management (M.P.M.- Alberta) and Law (LL.M.- Osgoode Hall), as well as Certificates in Adult and Continuing Education, in Arbitration and in Tribunal Administrative Justice.  A mediator, social policy advocate, lawyer and adult educator, she is currently a Hearing Chair with the Appeals Commission for Alberta Workers’ Compensation.  Her term ends June 30, 2020.

For the past ten years, Katherine has taught the Low-income Individuals and the Law seminar course at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law.  The seminar is part of a full-year, nine-credit clinical placement course of which she is co-developer and co-teacher.  Previously, Katherine had been a sessional lecturer in Poverty Law and a guest lecturer in the areas of residential tenancies and alternative dispute resolution. 

Katherine was executive director of the Edmonton Landlord and Tenant Advisory Board for eight years before becoming the City’s Manager of Boards.  Following that, she held a number of positions at Legal Aid Alberta, including vice-president of its policy and research division.

Katherine has been a board member with non-profit organizations, including social planning councils in Ontario and Alberta, and the Alberta Food Bank Network Association.  She was a founding Board member of the Edmonton Community Adult Learning Association, the Edmonton Community Loan Fund, and Niagara North Community Legal Assistance.  She was also a member of the Steering Committee which developed and obtained funding for the pilot project which ultimately became the Edmonton Community Legal Centre.

Bill is passionate about issues of citizenship, belonging and social justice. After a year in Nicaragua and seeing the relationship between youth and change, he left a career in engineering to become an English teacher to engage with youth in service to learning and community. Throughout his career he has been involved as a supervisor for numerous student-led social action groups and has worked on the boards of several organizations. In his spare time he is pursuing a doctorate in Education. After 27 years in the classroom, though he still teaches English periodically, he currently works in consulting, splitting his time working for the Edmonton Public School Board between Research for Student Learning and Comprehensive School Health and Diversity. In both roles, he has been involved in numerous projects researching and supporting engaged citizenship, marginalized student populations and belonging, striving as much as possible to support education of, by and for compassion, relationships, and appreciation of difference. Outside of work and volunteering, Bill is a strong advocate for and patron of all the arts available in our community.

Charlotte began her postsecondary education at the University of Alberta, with a major in Sociology and a minor in psychology. There, Charlotte volunteered as President of the Sociology Undergraduate Association and facilitated students for reading for the hearing impaired program. Charlotte continued her studies at the University of Athabasca and obtained a Bachelor of General Studies. Charlotte obtained an LLB at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Charlotte’s volunteer activities in the community have included being a Youth Justice Committee Panel Member where she met with youth diverted from the court system. As part of this, Charlotte developed contracts for these youth to make amends for their actions, which included repair/replacement cost of property, or in personal or written apologies. Charlotte also volunteered with Arbutus, where she mentored a child once a week for year and created a “life book” for a child that had been involved with various foster families. Through her employer, Charlotte has volunteered at the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Meals on Wheels, the Hope Mission and the Edmonton Food Bank.

Charlotte now works in the access and privacy field which involved weighing access and privacy issues while facilitating information requests, and handing access and privacy complaints regarding an individual’s personal information. Charlotte holds an IAAP designation through the University of Alberta faculty of Extension.

Charlotte is member of the Cosmopolitan Music Society and enjoys Edmonton’s outdoor festivals and our hockey team!

Paula Kirman is an award-winning writer, photographer, filmmaker, musician, and activist. She has documented Edmonton’s activist scene for over a decade at her blog RadicalCitizenMedia.com; produced the community access program From the Ground Up which aired on Shaw TV for three years, and her photography was part of a three-person exhibit at Visual Arts Alberta called “Art + Activism” during the latter part of 2016. Paula has been the editor of Boyle McCauley News, an inner-city community newspaper, since 2006 and works with numerous non-profit groups as a social media and website consultant. Paula co-organized the Edmonton Women’s March in 2017, which saw 4,000 people attend. She is the former Secretary of the Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action, President of Project Ploughshares Edmonton, and an organizer with the Edmonton Coalition Against War & Racism. In May 2018, she received the Social Justice Advocacy Award from the ESPC, and in December 2016, she received the Human Rights Champion Award from the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights for being a pioneering media artist and community organizer.

Denise’s talent lies within seeing an organization and its people as part of an ornate puzzle – finding the right spot for each piece is her specialty. Never afraid to ask the hard questions, she is upfront and concise, and above all, understanding how the human element can take an organization to unimaginable heights of success.

A background in finance coupled with a passion for structure, processes, and the human resources, gives her a unique overall perspective into businesses. With over 30 years of experience and education within the financial and business industry, and owing successful businesses herself, she has an innate ability to merge the entrepreneur’s dreams and the businesses operations together with profitable results, in any industry sector.

Denise is the co-founder and CFO of GBV Resource Collective, a social enterprise organization bridging the gaps in gender-based violence in Canada through targeted resources, education, and advocacy. She is also the founder of Business in a Box Ltd – a full-service accounting business.

Archana Chaudhary works as a Project Manager with Covenant Health in Edmonton. She has vast and varied experience spanning over 20 years in the area of strategic planning, policy development, and direction. She is a trained architect and planner. Archana passionately works to enhance and contribute to the community. She is a vivacious volunteer and has contributed endless hours consistently while serving on various boards and agencies in separate capacities. Currently, she sits as a Public Member on the Hearing Tribunal Roster of Alberta Health, a mentor to various mentees at the Edmonton Region Immigrant Employment Council (ERIEC), and a Regional reviewer for the Federal Ministry of Employment and Social Development. For Archana, it has been extremely gratifying to witness the ripple effect of her efforts and inspire others to be involved in community development.

Money Mehta is a Master of Business Administration graduate with major in Human Resources and minor in Information Technology. She has a post-graduate diploma in Business Administration as well. She is working as an Administrative Assistant with Makami College in Edmonton. She enjoys interacting with people and loves to explore other cultures. She was  teaching Technology Series and MS Excel Program to Adults and Seniors for one Non-Profit organization in Lloydminster, AB. She is a techie and loves to be around gadgets. You can call her social butterfly too.