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Bill Stovin is a retired journalist with a long career at CBC-TV and radio and in private radio as well as a former Communications Director in government.
Amber Bennett is one of Canada’s top climate communication strategists and capacity builders. Amber works with groups across the country, bridging the gap between research and practice. As Executive Director of Re.Climate at Carleton University, she helps lead a national team to deliver research, resources, training and strategy. Amber has earned multiple awards for her work and regularly speaks on the topic of climate communications.
C.S. Beamer is a former journalist and author of three novels, two published under the pen name, Caroline Kean. A recently completed fourth novel, DOOMED DURANGO, co-authored with her daughter, Christine, will be open to representation in 2020.
Dr. Arden Henley is well-known in the Lower Mainland for his family therapy work and his development of programs for youth as well as his service as Vice President of City University of Canada. He is widely published and is currently the Founder and Executive Director of the Green Technology Education Centre (GTEC).
Ross Thrasher enjoyed a career as a librarian at post-secondary institutions in the U.S., the South Pacific and Canada where he led the Mount Royal College library’s transition to university status. Ross is interested in literature, travel and the performing arts. Especially satire.
Diane de Camps Meschino MD, is a psychiatrist, artist and associate professor at University of Toronto with an academic focus on healthcare leadership and system transformation. Diane has reduced her clinical role to concentrate on collaborative leadership for healthcare system resilience and responses to climate change. As an artist, she employs painting as a powerful communicator of stories and feelings, as well as an enquiry into the inner world of others. The arts say thing we cannot or do not speak; they are connectors, change agents, healers and motivators, so needed in today’s volatile, unpredictable world.
Scott Lawrance, Ed.D., R.C.C. A retired member of the B.C. Teacher’s Federation, Scott has taught at all levels of public education from grade two to post-Secondary. His current professional interests include Buddhist approaches to eco-therapy. Scott and his Salish Sea Eco-retreats partner, Tara Souch offer annual eco-retreats for wilderness guides and interested professionals. He is the author of four books of poetry and has, in the past, edited two poetry magazines, “Raven” and “Circular Causation”.
