Meet the City-Builders of Tomorrow
DiverseCity Fellows is pleased to announce the 2010 Fellows:
- Suhail Abualsameed, Newcomer Community Engagement Coordinator, Sherbourne Health Centre
- Wendell Adjetey, Case Manager/Employment Counsellor, JVS Toronto
- Gelek Badheytsang, Communications & Outreach Manager, Greenest City
- Inka Bari, Manager, Advisory Services, KPMG
- Fabio Crespin, Host Program Supervisor, Woodgreen Community Services
- Saumya Gautam, Consultant, Talent Acquisition & Diversity, CBC
- Bilal Khan, Legal Counsel, Cignias
- Farheen Khan, Consultant & Community Outreach Coordinator, Fsk Associates & United Way of Peel Region
- Karen Kun, Publisher, Corporate Knights & Founder, Waterlution
- Colin Lacey, Project Manager, Evergreen
- Tinashe Mafukidze, Consultant, Carte Blanche Associates
- Nishanthini Nagaratnam, Community Grants Developer, Youth Challenge Fund
- Jasvir Nijjar, Major Gifts Officer, United Way of Toronto
- Julius Nyarko, Policy Advisor, Gaming Policy Branch, Ontario Ministry of Finance
- Adaoma Patterson, Specialist, Poverty Reduction Strategy Committee, Region of Peel
- Crystal Perryman Mark, Community Development Consultant, Malton Community Health Centre/Bramalea Community Health Centre
- Hena Prasanna, Program Manager, Cisco Canada
- Katie Rabinowicz, Project Coordinator, Sustain Ontario & Environment Program Officer, Metcalf Foundation
- Salima Rawji, Project Manager, SmartCentres
- Tanya Rumble, Health Promoter, Halton Region Health Department
- Melanie Smith, Senior Human Resources Consultant – Employment Equity, City of Toronto
- Raj Sohi, Interim Deputy Administrative Director – Addiction, Child, Youth and Family Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, General Manager, Native Earth Performing Arts
- Sharaf Sultan, Associate, Rubin Thomlinson LLP
- Melissa Tapper, Health Planner, South Riverdale Community Health Centre
- Jasmine Tehara, Associate Vice President, Wealth Management, TD Bank Financial Group
- Niranjan Vivekanandan, Vice President, Commercial Banking, RBC Royal Bank
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What is the DiverseCity Fellows program?
DiverseCity Fellows is a one-year action-oriented fellowship program for 27 rising city-builders who are deeply committed to developing themselves into better leaders and working across sectors on issues that are critical to the future health and wealth of the Toronto region.
The DiverseCity Fellows program takes a learning-by-doing approach. By connecting and supporting rising city-builders today, the program aims to:
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Create a civic leadership that reflects the diversity of the Toronto region;
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Advance the strategic capacity of city-building leaders as they strive to effect positive change, and;
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Develop a new kind of leadership, one that values diverse perspectives and operates across sectors.
Over the course of a year, Fellows participate in innovative and provocative workshops on leadership development, diversity, and civic awareness. DiverseCity Fellows connects rising leaders to influencers and decision-makers across the GTA. The program culminates with the design and implementation of city-building action projects that Fellows develop with partner institutions.
DiverseCity Fellows 2010 will run from January-December 2010 and includes one overnight retreat, ten full-day sessions, plus independent development of a city-building project.
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Inaugural DiverseCity Fellows (2009)
Learn more about the inaugural DiverseCity Fellows (2009) here and learn about their six city-building projects here.
For more information, contact fellows@diversecitytoronto.ca.
Our Thanks
Thank you to our partners for their generous in-kind support of the DiverseCity Fellows program:
