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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Associates
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Online Public Engagement Specialist at Ethelo Decisions
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Facilitator & Consultant
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Principal at Pē′pəl & JEDI Facilitator at UBC
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Research Fellow, SFU Faculty of Health Sciences
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Director, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
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Director, Center for Comparative Muslim Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
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Founder & Principal, Tawâw Strategies
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City Councillor, City of Kamloops
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Director, iSpace Lab, SFU SIAT
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Historian, and Professor of Communications at SFU
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Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Restorative Justice
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Somatic Therapist (RCC) and Co-Lead Program Design Refugee Livelihood Lab, RADIUS SFU
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Principal, CE Holmes Consulting Inc
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Executive Director, Whistler Centre for Sustainability
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Associate Director, Digital Community Engagement
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CEO, Cicely Blain Consulting and Instructor, Executive Leadership, SFU
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Adjust Professor, SFU Public Policy
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Executive Director and Co-Founder, CityStudio
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Professor, Department of Political Science, SFU
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Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at the Beedie School of Business at SFU
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Assistant Professor, Publishing, Simon Fraser University
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Former Director General of the Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion at Health Canada
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Director, ikb Coaching & Consulting
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Facilitator, Writer, Editor
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Public Engagement Specialist; Founding Partner - One World Inc.
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Executive Director, SFU Public Square
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Dean and Associate Provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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Senior Social Planner, City of Vancouver; Trustee, Vancouver School Board
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Independent Convener & Facilitator
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Former Co-Executive Director, QMUNITY; community organizer, facilitator & educator
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Founder and CEO of Ethelo Decisions
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Founder and Co-Director, International Centre of Art for Social Change
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Associate Dean, Lifelong Learning, SFU Vancouver
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Principal, Dovetail Consulting Group
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President, Office de Participation Publique de Longueuil
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Chief Executive Officer, Reconciliation Canada, North Vancouver
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Director of Research, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
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Facilitation, Organizing, Training, Youth Engagement
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Executive Director, Two Worlds of Knowing Project
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Assistant Dean, External Relations, Beedie School of Business, SFU
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Executive Director, Indigenous Initiatives and Partnerships
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Chair, Building Bridges with Rwanda (BBR)
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Executive Director, SFU Vancouver
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Development Director, Institut du Nouveau Monde, Montreal
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Strategic Consultant and Community Activist
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Global Engagement Consultant Working With Mayors and Municipalities
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Principal, Engagement Matters
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President & CEO, Canada's Urban Institute
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Director, SFU City Conversations
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Professor, Allard School of Law, UBC
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Professor of Global Studies and Co-Director of the Dialogue, Inclusion, and Democracy Lab at Providence College
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Chair, Vancouver City Planning Commission
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences SFU & Co-Founder Bridge for Health Co-op
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Order of Canada and Order of British Columbia Recipient
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Co-Founder and Partner, Impact Plus Consulting
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Educator and Facilitator, Decolonizing Anti-Racism
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Poet Laureate for the City of Surrey, BC
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Protem Director for the Office for Aboriginal People, SFU
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Founder & Chief Equity Officer of The Inclusion Project
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Principal, Drawing Change
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Founder, InWithForward
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Digital Strategist and Research Consultant
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Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, SFU
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Executive Director, SFU International
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Director, Leadership & Community Building Programs, Lifelong Learning, SFU
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Owner & Lead Trainer, Ladders to Kindness Training
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Executive Director, Campus Administration, SFU Surrey
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Host, Conversations That Matter
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Associate Dean, FCAT and Associate Professor, School of Communication at SFU
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Civic Engagement Specialist
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Partner, Convergence Strategies
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Decolonizing Facilitator, Creative Director and Indigenous Change Maker
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Dean and Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU
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Co-Founder, CityHive
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Artist. Facilitator.
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Executive Director and Co-Founder, CityHive
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Director, Digital Democracies Group
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Co-Founder, The Pacific Canada Heritage Centre - Museum of Migration