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Our Team: Bios

 Cheryl Doran
 
Sol Shuster
 
Chris Szpak

Chris is a consultant in information management and works mostly for international agencies and non-governmental organizations.  As a member of the Greenspace Alliance since 2001, he has been particularly involved in monitoring the development of the City’s Official Plan and its Greenspace Master Plan.

Janice Seline

Janice Seline came to the Greenspace Alliance for help in 2003 when her landlord gave notice that he was about to remove the dozen-or-so fifty-year-old maples on her street. The trees are still standing, and she has been a member of the Alliance ever since. Prior to that, she was aware of the Alliance's work through the efforts of Bryan Hawley, a friend and founding member of the Alliance, to have land behind Fairlea Crescent rezoned. The residents of Fairlea Crescent and environs still enjoy the fields and woods behind their houses.

Janice Seline works as Executive Director of CARCC (Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective), an organization that represents visual artists for the use of their copyrights.
 
Amy Kempster

Amy has been involved with city planning issues for many years but has concentrated on  greenspace issues in the last decade. She has been retired for some years from Statistics Canada.
 
Barry George
  
Mikelis Svilans
 
Christel Woodward
 
Dr. Woodward is a retired university professor with more than 30 years of experience in program evaluation and health services research.  She has worked as a consultant to the Canadian Medical Association, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and provincial medical organizations. She has also been a consultant to provincial governments, Health Canada and the World Health Organization.  With her family, Christel has spent many hours hiking the Bruce Trail and camped throughout Ontario.  An avid gardener, she has turned lawns into perrenials, bushes and shrubs using the lasagna method.  She recently joined the Poets' Pathway Committee.
 
 
 

Bill Royds (1947-2009)
In Memoriam
See http://www.perc.ca/PEN/2001-07-08/s-johnson2.html
Also see Bill's Natural Heritage Award citation and his entry in "Introducing..."
 
 
 
Shelley Parlow:  see http://www.carleton.ca/psychology/faculty/parlow.html
 
Erwin Dreessen: see http://207.112.105.217/PEN/2001-07-08/s-dressen.html
 
 
 
 
 
Ron Rancourt,
Ron provides assistance with website updates and maintenance.  He was launched into greenspace preservation since participating in the public working group for the N-S LRT Project maintenance yard site selection.
 
 
Carol Gudz

Carol joined the Alliance in 2006 after becoming involved in advocating for sustainable development in Kanata West along the Carp River. At that time, several members of the Alliance also became involved in this issue.  She is also a member of the Ottawa Group of the Sierra Club of Canada.
 
George Wilson (1942-2011)
In Memoriam

George was for many years an environmental activist. He served as Chair of the Ottawa Group of The Sierra Club of Canada, chaired the Greenspace Alliance in 2007 and co-chaired the Poets' Pathway Committee. He was a passionate advocate of walking, cycling and the use of public transit.

George retired as an English teacher.
 
Theresa Jobateh,

Theresa was first lured to the Greenspace Alliance due to an inspiring literary event in the fall of 2002 called "The Poets' Pathway".  This clever portrayal of Confederation era poets got her interested in the Greenspace Alliance's Poets’ Pathway project.  Over the past few years she has been volunteering at events and performing various tasks as time and energy permits.  She is impressed and humbled by the efforts of other Alliance members, is learning from them and doing her best in the collective efforts to protect Greenspace in the Ottawa area.  She is also a poet and budding author so has admitted to sacrificing a lot of paper - recycled mostly, of course! 

Theresa works in the Information Technology field, wearing many hats in supporting various endeavours.