Our Facilitators

Sandra Whiting

Sandra Whiting has been at the epicentre of activity and change in Toronto’s African Canadian community for over thirty years. She has worked with among others: The Black Business & Professional Association, the Jamaican Canadian Association, The YWCA, Factory Theatre, Obsidian Theatre, The Caribbean Cultural Committee; The Convention Centre; the Broadcast Standards Council and many more organizations as President, Board member and volunteer and is now the President for PACE Canada.

She was awarded the Harry Jerome Award for Community Leadership, has received the JCA Award, Pace Canada Pacesetter Award; Community Service awards from the JCA & JN & the Gleaner Company and was featured on the Black History Month Legacy poster as well as being named as one of the 100 ABC Women (Accomplished Black Canadian Women of 2016).
She also has her name on a Bench of prominent African Canadian at Harbourfront Centre for her work in the Cultural arts sector.

As a writer and storyteller, Sandra uses the arts as a vehicle for change.

Sandra now concentrates on being a speaker using personal stories as her means of delivering her message.

Angélique Bernabé

Angelique is always enthusiastic about taking action and leading change. She focuses her PhD research on the analysis of women’s economic behaviour ranging from studying the education gap in India to shedding light on the interdependence of economic incentives and violence against women. She is not only a leader on campus but also a leader outside the university through her work for the Institute for Change Leaders, a not-for-profit organisation that partners with local NGOs to lead community organizing training and make people’s voices heard. Angelique understands the importance of belonging and she shares that by being a champion for inclusivity and community building.

Sabrina Bowman

Sabrina has spent the past decade working in the not for profit sector on the environment, politics, and international health. She trained with organizer Marshall Ganz at Harvard in his Leadership, Organizing and Change course, and has facilitated several sessions training organizers working on a variety of progressive issues. Sabrina co-organized the 2014 Canroots East conference in Toronto, bringing over 150 people together to learn about different approaches to organizing, and is co-organizing Canroots East 2016. She volunteers at a do it yourself bike shop and loves teaching people how to fix a flat tire.

Graeme Lamb

I’m an organizer and educator currently based in Toronto after formative spells in Montréal, Peterborough and Eeyou Istchee. I’m equally at home paddling through wetlands, poring over archives, and taking action in the streets. Through my work with the Institute for Change Leaders, I equip teams to connect personal stories with a clearheaded power analysis and make plans that win.

I'm committed to racial justice, decolonization and queer liberation.

My passion for organizing almost matches my obsession with wildlife-friendly gardening, but not quite.

Brian Chang

Brian Chang, a Gay man living with a disability, is a grassroots organizer who is at home chipping away at the façade of urban elitism and the appropriation of social justice work by those who treat it as a hobby and not a lived experience. An incredibly experienced organizer, he has worked all variety of roles such as Finance Officer and Volunteer Coordinator for the Jennifer Keesmaat campaign for Mayor of Toronto, Director of Operations of Jagmeet Singh’s successful leadership campaign, CFO for Felicia Samuel’s campaign for Scarborough North, and Tour Advancer for Andrea Horwath. A graduate of Innis College, University of Toronto and with a Masters from York University, he is at home in academic discourse or talking in baby-voice to cute puppies. His organizing interests are suburban organizing; ethno-specific, racialized, queer engagement; the environmental policy process; HIV/AIDS & STI/STD prevention; choral music; and music theatre.

Dawn Maracle

Dawn T Maracle, BAH, BEd., MEd.

Indigenous Research Consultant, Trainer, Instructor, Emcee, Facilitator

An award-winning diversity organizer, professional speaker and lifelong activist, Dawn T Maracle is a Mohawk woman from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory who sits with the Bear Clan. She has consulted with Indigenous communities, organizations, regions, nationally and internationally to facilitate, teach, write curriculum, policy, strategy and communications, to support individuals and groups with Indigenous and interfaith issues. With over two decades of experience working to promote Indigenous health, education, and governance, Dawn is a KAIROS Blanket Exercise Facilitator, Corporate and Master Trainer, and has experience in strategic planning, project management, and educational program development and evaluation. Dawn is the CEO of SKYroots Indigenous Training and Education Institute, as well as the Executive Director of HOPES: Healing Our Peoples through Education and Social (Justice) Indigenous Training Network (not-for-profit).

Dawn’s experience as a Mohawk woman working for decades within and for various Indigenous communities means she has extensive, deep relationships with those communities in Ontario and nationally, as well as internationally. She has worked from grassroots, volunteer positions on many Indigenous Boards of Directors, as well as in national leadership positions such as the Director of Professional Development at the National Centre for First Nations Governance, and the National Chair for the AFN-INAC Post Secondary Education Working Group, as well as on the UNESCO Arts and Education Roundtable.

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Helen Hargreaves

Helen lives in Toronto with her wife and daughter and is passionate about creating a more just and environmentally sustainable world. She is a registered Social Worker and primarily works with children and families to help them respond to strong emotions in more compassionate ways.

Amanda Harvey-Sanchez

Amanda grew up hearing about climate change from her parents. She has been involved in environmental initiatives from a young age, but it wasn’t until joining her campus fossil fuel divestment campaign in 2014 that she learned to approach climate activism from a social justice perspective. Working on divestment, she has had the opportunity to engage with related social issues including Indigenous rights, anti-racism, and feminist activism. She came to Project Organize hoping to improve her skills and connect with the broader activist community; now, as a facilitator with the group, she coaches organizers in the skills they need to enact progressive change.

Alexander Waddling

Alexander Waddling is a grassroots organizer engaging young men and boys on gender equality issues. In 2012 he established Ride For A Dream, an organization that has facilitated various forms of fundraising, educational, and awareness-raising events that address gender inequality in Canada through an intersectional lens. The largest campaign they conducted was an educational speaking tour by bicycle from coast to coast, over 8,400 kilometres, while fundraising for local shelters for women escaping violence. He is also involved in municipal politics, having managed a mayoral campaign, engaged in cycling advocacy, and peer mentorship. More recently he co-organized a project called the 'Meatless Manifesto' to educate on factory farming and its ecological impact, animal rights, and the sexual politics of eating meat, with the intent of engaging men in particular.

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