Editorial team
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Sasha Endoh
Sasha Endoh is the website and technical lead at The Philanthropist Journal.
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Lesley Fraser
Lesley Fraser is the managing editor of The Philanthropist Journal
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Jillian Witt
Jillian Witt is community engagement editor for The Philanthropist Journal.
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Leslie Wright
Leslie Wright is the executive director of the Agora Foundation and editor-in-chief of its publication, The Philanthropist Journal.
Agora Foundation Board of Directors and Publisher
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Pedro Barata
Pedro Barata is the president and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Canada.
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Raine Liliefeldt
Raine Liliefeldt is a communications professional with more than 18 years of experience in the non-profit sector and is the director of membership engagement at YWCA Canada.
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Allan Northcott
Allan Northcott is president of Max Bell Foundation, which for 25 years has focused on supporting charities engaging in public policy development.
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Sylvia Parris-Drummond
Sylvia Parris-Drummond is CEO of the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute in Halifax.
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Patti Pon
A veteran community and arts champion, Patti Pon is the president and CEO of Calgary Arts Development and the vice-president of the Agora Foundation Board of Directors.
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Susan Rowbottom
Susan Rowbottom has been helping individuals and families establish and manage charitable foundations for more than 30 years.
Editorial Advisory
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Monica Allaby
Monica Allaby is a senior communications specialist with MakeWay. She is based in New Brunswick.
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Adriana Beemans
Adriana Beemans is director of the Inclusive Local Economies Program at the Metcalf Foundation.
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Thea Belanger
Thea Belanger is the director of philanthropy with Dragonfly Ventures
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Nujma Bond
Nujma Bond is manager of communications for the Royal Canadian Legion.
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Terrance S. Carter
Terrance S. Carter, B.A., LL.B, TEP, is the managing partner of Carters Professional Corporation.
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Dan Clement
Dan Clement is president and CEO of United Way Centraide Canada.
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Danny Glenwright
Danny Glenwright is the president and CEO of Save the Children Canada and a director on the board of the Humanitarian Coalition.
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Marcel Lauzière
Marcel Lauzière has led several national organizations: the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Canadian Council on Social Development, and Imagine Canada. He has been a senior public servant in Canada and New Zealand. He was also CEO of the Lawson Foundation.
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Margaret Mason
Margaret Mason is a partner with Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP. Mason's practice focuses on advising charities and non-profit organizations.
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Paul Nazareth
Paul Nazareth is Vice President, Community Engagement, CanadaHelps; National Instructor, Canadian Association of Gift Planners and Adjunct Professor, Planned Giving. Fundraising and Resource Development Program, Georgian College.
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Hilary Pearson
Hilary Pearson is the former president of Philanthropic Foundations Canada. She works as an independent policy consultant and co-chaired the federal Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector from 2019 to 2023.
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Andreae Sennyah
Andreae Sennyah is the Director of Policy with Cardus.
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Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe from St. Peter’s/Little Peguis and is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba.
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James Stauch
James Stauch is a complex-systems strategist with ATCO and a visiting fellow with the Skoll Centre at the University of Oxford. He has worked in (or adjacent to) philanthropy for two and a half decades.
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Vicki Stroich
Vicki Stroich is a Calgary-based facilitator, nonprofit leader, artist, and community builder who serves as engagement director for Alberta Ecotrust, an organization that supports environmental non-profits.
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Cathy Taylor
Cathy Taylor is president an CEO of the Lawson Foundation.
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Musu Taylor-Lewis
Musu Taylor-Lewis is president and CEO of Food for the Hungry Canada (FH Canada).
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Geneviève Vallerand
Geneviève Vallerand is director of communications for Community Foundations of Canada.