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ASSOCIATES

The honorific appointment of Dialogue Associate reflects strong achievement in dialogue and a sustained, active relationship with the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue programming. Senior Associates are individuals who played a significant role in the development of the Centre.

Senior Associates

Joanna Ashworth

Joanna is a former Director of Dialogue Programs at the Centre for Dialogue, leading numerous projects and programs from 2002 to 2010. Today she is Associate Director at the Centre for Sustainable Community Development, where she is also a faculty member in the Centre’s academic program. She was a program founder and teaches in SFU’s Certificate in Dialogue and Civic Engagement.

Ann Cowan

Ann was a founding member of the Centre for Dialogue. Serving as the Director of Program Development, she helped Mark Winston develop the Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue and other key initiatives. During her 23-year career at SFU, she also served as Executive Director of the Vancouver campus and founded SFU’s Writing and Publishing Program and the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing.

Tony Penikett

Tony spent 25 years in public life, including: two years at the House of Commons as Chief of Staff to federal New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent; five terms in the Yukon Legislative Assembly; and two terms as Premier of Canada’s Yukon Territory. Between 1997 and 2001, Penikett served as B.C.’s Deputy Minister of Negotiations and, later, Labour. In 2006, Douglas & McIntyre published his book, Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making. In 2017, UBC Press will release Hunting the Northern Character,Penikett’s book on Arctic identities in the 21st century.

Glenn Sigurdson

A mediator, lawyer, facilitator and negotiator, Glenn Sigurdson is internationally known for his work related to complex multi-party challenges involving environmental, resource and land use issues. From 2001 to 2005 he led the Dialogue Forum, a research initiative exploring protocols and effective tools for successful dialogue.

Associates

  • Michael Alexander

    Director, SFU City Conversations

  • Bob Anderson

    Historian, and Professor of Communications at SFU

  • Laurie Anderson

    Executive Director, SFU Vancouver

  • Paola Ardiles

    Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences SFU & Co-Founder Bridge for Health Co-op

  • Natasha Aruliah

    Facilitator, Coach and Consultant

  • Indy Batth

    Director, ikb Coaching & Consulting

  • Shanthi Besso

    Director, Leadership & Community Building Programs, Lifelong Learning, SFU

  • Cicely Blain

    CEO, Cicely Blain Consulting and Instructor, Executive Leadership, SFU

  • Sean Blenkinsop

    Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University

  • Sam Bradd

    Principal, Drawing Change

  • Tania Bubela

    Dean and Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU

  • Gervase Bushe

    Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at the Beedie School of Business at SFU

  • Mark Busse

    Strategic Consultant and Community Activist

  • Veronika Bylicki

    Executive Director & Co-Founder, CityHive

  • Julie Caron-Malenfant

    Executive Director, Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM), Montreal

  • Winnie Cheung

    Co-Founder, The Pacific Canada Heritage Centre - Museum of Migration

  • Wendy Chun

    Director, Digital Democracies Group

  • Jacquie Dale

    Public Engagement Specialist; Founding Partner - One World Inc.

  • Rain Daniels

    Educator and Facilitator, Decolonizing Anti-Racism

  • Jeff Derksen

    Dean and Associate Provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

  • Stephen Dooley

    Executive Director, Campus Administration, SFU Surrey

  • Cassie Doyle

    CEO, Canadian International Resources and Development Institute (CIRDI)

  • Camille Dumond

    Somatic Therapist (RCC) and Co-Lead Program Design Refugee Livelihood Lab, RADIUS SFU

  • Duane Elverum

    Executive Director and Co-Founder, CityStudio

  • Aftab Erfan

    Director, Dialogue and Conflict Management, UBC

  • Malorie Flon

    Development Director, Institut du Nouveau Monde, Montreal

  • Patsy George

    Order of Canada and Order of British Columbia Recipient

  • Amal Ghazal

    Director, Center for Comparative Muslim Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

  • Julian Griggs

    Principal, Dovetail Consulting Group

  • Susanna Haas-Lyons

    Civic Engagement Specialist

  • Joel Harnest

    Former Co-Executive Director, QMUNITY; community organizer, facilitator & educator

  • Suzanne Hawkes

    Partner, Convergence Strategies

  • Matt Hern

    Community Organizer, Independent Scholar, Writer and Activist

  • Kirk Hill

    Assistant Dean, External Relations, Beedie School of Business, SFU

  • Cheeying Ho

    Executive Director, Whistler Centre for Sustainability

  • Michelle Hoar

    Project Director, Hey Neighbour Collective

  • Charles Holmes

    Principal, CE Holmes Consulting Inc

  • Kim Hudson

    Executive Director, Two Worlds of Knowing Project

  • Hasan Hutchinson

    Former Director General of the Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion at Health Canada

  • Precious Ile

    Co-Founder and Partner, Impact Plus Consulting

  • Am Johal

    Director, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement

  • Genevieve Fuji Johnson

    Professor, Department of Political Science, SFU

  • Ronald Johnston

    Protem Director for the Office for Aboriginal People, SFU

  • Karen Joseph

    Chief Executive Officer, Reconciliation Canada, North Vancouver

  • Shelley Joseph

    Owner & Lead Trainer, Ladders to Kindness Training