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BOARD
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 Shari Graydon, President
Shari Graydon comes to the WFF from Media Watch where she served as President for close to three terms. Her communication career has included work in public relations, broadcasting, journalism, education and government.
She produced a 13-part television series for WTN on women and the media, wrote a weekly column for The Vancouver Sun, and continues to write and/or perform media commentary for a variety of broadcast and print media. Her academic work has included both primary and secondary research into the relationship between female consumers and media industries, a topic on which she has published.
Her children's book, Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know, (Annick Press 2003), has been recommended by School Library Journal, Booklist and Quill and Quire. Shari's latest release In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You (September 2004), looks at the relationship between beauty and the media, opening teens’ minds to the forces that shape our understanding of beauty. In Your Face was the winner of the 2005 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. |
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Kathleen Loftus, Vice President
As the Coordinator of Equity and Women's Services for the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, Kathleen has the opportunity to focus on issues specific to equity and women in education and in the broader community.
Kathleen started her career as a teacher in Detroit and continued as a special education teacher in Toronto before joining the Federation staff in 1990. Bargaining for equity issues was a major focus of her role as a negotiator for the Federation for several years prior to her full time work in equity and women's services.
Kathleen has worked with several women's organizations over the years and has promoted these organizations within the union movement. She currently represents CRIAW on the Women's Future Fund Board.
Cathie Penny, Secretary-Treasurer
Cathie Penny has been the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Cape Breton for fifteen years. Active with sexual and reproductive health issues for many years, Cathie was a founding member of the local AIDS Coalition, the Sharp Advice Needle Exchange and four Cape Breton Youth Health Centres. Currently Cathie is on the Advisory Committee overseeing the Dept. of Health program and an active member of the Cape Breton Central Community Health Board.
Cathie Penny is President of the local Elizabeth Fry Society Board and an Atlantic Regional Representative on the national Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies Board where she holds the position of Treasurer. She is on a national steering committee for Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada dealing with governance and policy issues and is the Treasurer of the Planned Parenthood Nova Scotia Board.
Karen Charnow Lior, Past President
Karen Charnow Lior served on the Women's Future Fund Board for five years. She is currently the Executive Director of the Toronto Training Board. Her portfolio includes research on workforce adjustment, apprenticeship, human resource planning in sectors, and lifelong learning.
Karen is the former Executive Director of ACTEW (A Commitment to Training and Education for Women), and former National Representative, Training at the Canadian Labour Congress. Karen has published numerous papers and articles related to women's access to training opportunities and the Canadian labour force.
She has a Master's Degree from York University and sits on the Advisory Council to the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at OISE/UT. She is a community activist and adult educator. Karen came to the Women's Future Fund as a member of the Management Committee of CCLOW and represented CRIAW.
Beth Atcheson, Director
Originally from New Brunswick and trained as a lawyer, Beth Atcheson’s professional specialty is financial institutions and services. She has had a long affiliation with the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF).
She is currently the volunteer Chair of the national Board of Directors, and prior to that she served as the Chair of the LEAF Foundation, its sister organization. She was a founding mother of LEAF, and its first Vice-Chair (1985-1987). She co-authored the study, Women and Legal Action; it recommended the creation of a Canadian fund to support constitutional equality cases, and when the Constitution of Canada was patriated in the early 1980s, she was active in the lobbying for meaningful rights for women.
Currently, Beth manages www.coolwomen.ca, an innovative, educational web site on the history of women in Canada. She has been a director of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy (now Imagine Canada). Beth received a Woman of Distinction award in 1991 from the Toronto YWCA for her volunteer work on women’s equality.
Kim Brooks, Director
Kim Brooks is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia where she teaches tax and torts. She is co-coordinator of the National Association of Women and the Law, managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, and a steering committee member of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies at UBC.
Jaime Lee, Director
Jaime Lee currently works as a Research Coordinator and Eating Disorder Counsellor. She has been volunteering with the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) for three years. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from York University, and a Masters of Education from OISE in the University of Toronto, where her Master’s thesis work was on “Exploring Protective Factors that Prevent Individuals Recovered from Bulimia Nervosa from Relapsing.” She also volunteers her time as a therapist at a walk-in clinic where she works with families and children.
Yaa-Hemaa Obiri-Yeboah, Director
Yaa-Hemaa Obiri-Yeboah, born in Accra, Ghana and raised in Vancouver, B.C., is a Policy Analyst at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Yaa-Hemaa graduated from the University of British Columbia with an Honours degree in English Literature and a minor in Political Science. She was selected as the 2003 Rhodes Scholar for the Province of British Columbia and subsequently completed a Master’s in English Literature and another Master’s in Women’s Studies at the University of Oxford. In 2003, Yaa-Hemaa was also a YWCA Women of Distinction Award Nominee for the Young Trail Builders Award in recognition of her extensive volunteer work.
Yaa-Hemaa is happy to represent the National Congress of Black Women Foundation.
Julie Oliver, Director
Julie Oliver is the Executive Director of le Conseil de développement économique de la Nouvelle-Écosse (CDÉNÉ), an economic development agency working with the francophone and Acadian regions of the province. In addition to her background in community economic development and business administration,
Julie has more than twenty years' experience in working with various non-profit francophone organizations.
Prior to her position with CDÉNÉ in October 2004, she worked for a period of six years as Executive Director of la Fédération des femmes acadiennes de la Nouvelle-Écosse, a provincial women's organization. Julie became a member of the Board of Directors of le Réseau national d'action education femmes in 1998 and assumed the volunteer position of treasurer during the last four years of this national organization's existence. She is presently the treasurer of the Board of Directors of Fondation Accéd.
Faelyne Templer, Director
Faelyne Templer is the founder of Avocation, a Durham, Ontario-based organization that provides vocation programs and services to people who experience barriers to employment.
Faelyne has a long-standing commitment to issues of equity and representation, and seeks opportunities to lend her voice to educate and promote inclusion through her active participation in community life, from member of the Town of Ajax Diversity Advisory Committee, to Business Director for the Durham Region Local Training Board. Faelyne has been nominated for the YWCA's Women of Distinction Award in Durham.
She is delighted to represent ACTEW (A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women), an umbrella group that provides support to organizations working with women, on the Women’s Future Fund. |
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