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Project Advisory Committee

The Project Advisory Committee (PAC) provides advice and feedback to the Project Management Team on the directions, policies, and curricula as they affect the planning, focus and outreach for the Engaging Diaspora in Developement series of activities. 

The PAC has the following objectives:

  1. to act as a resource to the Project Management Team on planning, implementation and evaluation of the public dialogues' themes and speakers, and the curriculum for the leadership workshops on Engaging Diaspora in Development: Tapping the Trans-Local Potential for Change.

  2. to serve as a mechanism to develop, clarify, and exchange ideas and concerns related to the Project as identified by committee members and their particular communities of interests.

  3. to serve as a communications vehicle to the community of Metro Vancouver and the rest of BC and Canada on the work and plans of the Project and its impact on the participants and the communities that they serve.

Members of the committee are:

Project Co-Directors
Joanna Ashworth, Research Associate, Centre for Sustainable Community Development
Shaheen Nanji, Director, International Development, SFU International

SFU Faculty
Robert Anderson, School of Communication
James Busumtwi-Sam, Department of Political Science
Kina Chenard, Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs
Alexander Dawson, Latin American Studies
June Francis, Faculty of Business
John Harriss, School for International Studies
Derryl MacLean, Centre for Comparative Studies of Muslim Societies & Cultures

SFU Students
Nadia Chaney, Artist, Graduate Student, Education 
Panther Kuol, SFU Student

Partners
Randall Martin, Executive Director, BC Council for International Education
Umeeda Switlo, Public Engagement Officer, Cuso Inernational
Rosa Candia, Diaspora Volunteering Program Coordinator, Cuso Inernational

Community Partners
Shams Alibhai, Executive Director, BC Centre for International Cooperation
Hanna Cho, Curator of Engagement & Dialogue, Museum of Vancouver
Meharoona Ghani, Director, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Programs, BC Ministry of Citizen Services
Amos Kambere, Founder, Umoja Operation Compassion Society
Joe Knockaert, former head of CIDA Pacific Regional Office
Luis Moncayo Marquez, Coordinator, Harvest Box Program of the SFU Local Food Project  

Research and Administration
Mignon Alphonso, Program Coordinator 
Franciska Hidayat, Coop Student
Douglas Olthof, MA, International Studies