CCDI presenters

The following people act as panelists and/or presenters for various of Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion events. Their expertise and experience add to CCDI's wealth of diversity and inclusiveness. Please click on their picture to know more about them.

Lilian Asiimwe (She, her)

Ishma Alexander-Huet

Marichu Antonio

Óscar Andrade (He, him)

Yeíl S’aghi/Teddy Anderson (he, him)

Lisa Annese

Sheba Birhanu

Christina Bellevue

Patricia Baxter
Patricia Baxter

Yin Brown

Althea Branton

Suchita Bali (She, her)

Evelyn Bradley
Evelyn Bradley

Sydney Elaine Butler (They/them)

Jill Chesley

Akira De Carlos

Sean Carleton (He, him)
Sean Carleton

Sania Chaudhry

Marylaine Choquette (She/her)
Acting Manager, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion – Public Services and Procurement Canada

Juan Manuel Carranza-Rosas

Mark Cresthol

Paul de Chica (He, him)

Rich Coburn

Daniel Côté (He, him)

Cristiane Danielli

Darcie Dixon

Salma Dhanani

Starrlee DeGrace

Cassandra Dorrington

Larissa Donovan

Colin Druhan

Marie-Philippe Drouin [Phillie]

Michelle Dubem

Bhavna Duggal

Matthew Dunn

Habib El-Hage

Amira Elghawaby

Danielle Elias

Lindsay Evans
Lindsay Evans

Muriam Fancy

Tiana Field-Ridley

Ziv Finkelstein

Andrew Follwell

Tim Fox

Julian Franklin

Moses Gashirabake

Annmarie Garby

Shari Golberg

Carol Graziani
Director Diversity & Inclusion, Best Buy Canada

Jesse Gouchey (he, him)

Deidre Guy

Rabbi Ellen Greenspan

Craig Hall

Jackie Hardwick

Mark Harrison

Susan Hayes

Mohammed Hashim

Evan Hu

Amy Huwang

Lauri Hoeg

Veronika Ilich

Jeff Ince

Juliet Jackson

Mubina Jaffer (She/her)

Mark Johnson

Raymond Jordan Johnson-Brown

Tyjondah Kerr

Tara Kappo

Namita Khatri

Sona Khosla

Linda Kongnetiman

Dinoba Kirupa

Giselle Kovary

Annie Korver

Brigitte Lavallée

Theresa "Corky" Larsen-Jonasson

Kelly J Lendsay

Janet Ledger

Elizabeth Lim

Melissa Magder

Karen Mackenzie

Shingai Manjengwa

Laetitia Martin

Eileen Marlowe
Eileen Marlowe

Christine McDowell

Marina Mathieu

Kirk Merrett

Christen McIntosh

Ginella Massa (She, her)
Broadcast Journalist and Media Expert

Kiersten Mohr

Betty Millien

Darren Mondor

Shannon Monk

Sarah Mushtaq

Betty Mutwiri

Amelia Marie Newbert

Emilie Nicolas
Emilie Nicolas (She, her)

Laurent Francis Ngoumou

Nhung Nguyen

Chi Nguyen

Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah (She, her)

Ejiro Onobrakpor

Maria Papadimitriou

Marni Panas

Jeff Perera

Mandy Price

Sheena Prasad (She/her)
Lead IDEA Consultant, Consulting

Jade Pichette (They, them)

Bibiana Pulido

Jade Psutka

Bruce Randall

Margaret Regan

Jeiz Robles

Maya Roy (She, her)

Sartaj Sarkaria

Shagufta Sadique

Thomas Sasso

Sonia Sangha (she, her)

Darrell Schuurman

Donna Schear

Nadine Shah

Heather Shenton

Jay Shea

Andi Shi

Aisha Sinclair

Gayathri Shukla

Gillian Burgis Smith

Maretha Smit

Trevor Smith

Iryna Soluk-Figol, M.A. RP

Jody Spiegel

Rukhsana Syed

Evelyn Steinhauer, PhD
Evelyn Steinhauer

Angela Sterritt (She, her)
Angela Sterritt

Mia Talavera

Susanna Tam

Kunle Tauhid

Sarah Thompson

Yarijey Techer

Juliet Turpin

Amélie Tintin

Rhodes Thompson-Chase
Rhodes Thompson-Chase

Charlie Ung

Gaurav Upadhya

Manju Varma

Steve Yan

Barry Yip

Lenworth Wallace

Val Walls

Evan Weselake

Nan Wehbe

Nicole Waldron (She, her)

Elaine Whitehead

Tanya Wick

Teresa Woo-Paw

Dan Zaiontz

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