Members of the PAN staff team bring their individual strengths and experiences to the work. Learn more about the team members through the 5 Questions Challenge.
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Following the Executive Director, staff are listed in alphabetical order.
PAN Staff
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jennifer Evin Jones
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 250.538.6233
Working from the ancestral and unceded traditional territory of the HUL’Q’UMI’NUM’ and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples on what is colonially called Salt Spring Island, BC.
Evaluation Specialist
Janak Bajgai
Email: [email protected]
Working from Treaty 7 region in what is colonially called Calgary, Alberta.
Research and Evaluation Manager
Jennifer Demchuk
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 604.569.1998
Working from Treaty 4 territories, traditional lands of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis Nation, in what is colonially referred to as Regina, Saskatchewan.
Indigenous Programming Coordinator
Cora Lee Garcia
Email: [email protected]
Working from the rightful and unceded territories of the Hupačasath and Tseshaht First Nations, currently occupied by the colonial town of Port Alberni, British Columbia.
Executive Administrator and Collective Impact Coordinator
Simon Goff
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 250.891.5249
Working from the ancestral, unceded and occupied land of the land of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations, colonially known as Langford, British Columbia.
Financial Manager
Umma Habiba
Email: [email protected]
Working from the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in what is colonially known as Toronto, Ontario.
Peer Research Associate, Making it Work Project
Hermione Jefferis
Working from T’Sou-ke Nation traditional territories, colonially known as Sooke, British Columbia.
Director of Capacity Building Initiatives
Stacy Leblanc
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 604.968.3160
Working from the territories of the Qayqayt, Semiahmoo, Katzie, Tsawwassen, Kwikwetlem, Tsleil-Waututh, Stó:lō, Kwantlen, Musqueam and possibly others as well, on what is colonially called New Westminster, British Columbia.
Capacity Building and Digital Communications Coordinator
Janet Madsen
Email: [email protected]
Working from the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in what is colonially called Vancouver, British Columbia.
Director of Research and Evaluation
Joanna Mendell
Email: [email protected]
Working from Wet’suwet’en territories, specifically the Gitumden Bear/Wolf Clan in what is colonially called Smithers, British Columbia.
Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) Manager
Marc Seguin
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 604.569.1998
Working from the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples in what is colonially called Vancouver, British Columbia.
Research and Evaluation Assistant
Monte Strong
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 778-989-8073
Working from the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in what is colonially called Vancouver, British Columbia.
Research Trainee, Making it Work Project
Courtney Tizya
Email: [email protected]
Working from unceded Snuneymuxw territory on what is colonially called Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Peer Research Associate, Making it Work Project
Edi Young
Email: [email protected]
Working from Wet’suwet’en territories, specifically the Gitumden Bear/Wolf Clan in what is colonially called Smithers, British Columbia.
Research and Evaluation Specialist
Leanne Zubowski
Email: [email protected]
Working from the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in what is colonially known as Toronto, Ontario.