DORIS BUSS
Chair of the Board
Wakefield, QC

BEVERLEY BURNS
Vice Chair of the Board
Vancouver, BC

CLETA BROWN
Vancouver, BC

LESLYN LEWIS
Toronto, ON

CARISSIMA MATHEN
Fredericton, NB

ROBERTA ROBB
Burlington, ON

MARILYN ROYCROFT
Toronto, ON

Marilyn has 30 years of experience in public affairs, government, education, strategic planning, and social justice work. She is a former Deputy General Secretary of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO). Before that, she handled media and government relations for the predecessor Federation of Women Teachers’ Associations of Ontario (FWTAO). From 1992-95, Marilyn was seconded to the Office of the Premier of Ontario as Director of the Public Appointments Secretariat.

Marilyn was a researcher with the New Democratic Party at Queen’s Park from 1973-78, special assistant to Stephen Lewis and Michele Landsberg, and executive assistant to NDP Leader Bob Rae from 1981-85. She was campaign manager in more than 15 provincial and federal elections and party leadership campaigns from 1973-95. Marilyn was a board member and vice-president of the Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto from 1989-92, a member of the national fundraising committee of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), from 1985-92, and a member of the Child Poverty Action Group from 1987-92.

Currently, she is a Director of the Canadian Education Association (CEA), a member of the Girls’ Fund Advisory Committee of the Canadian Women’s Foundation (CWF), and a Board member and Chair of Nominations for LEAF.

TERRIE RUSSELL
Toronto, ON

ROSE SANGSTER
Treasurer
Toronto, ON

JENNIFER TOMASZEWSKI
Sherwood Park, AB

BEVIN WORTON
Ottawa, ON

AUDREY M. JOHNSON
Executive Director
Toronto, ON