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Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.

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Jane Pyper

Jane Pyper

Board Member

Jane Pyper is the Chief Operations and Service Officer for the YMCA of Greater Toronto, an organization dedicated to making our communities home to the healthiest children, teens and young adults. Jane oversees a wide variety of programs including child care, camps, health and fitness, employment, immigration, housing and youth outreach and leadership. Previous to this role, Jane was the Chief Executive Officer for the Toronto Public Library, one of the largest and busiest public libraries in the world.

She is particularly interested in the social determinants of health and the role of public policy and community institutions in creating positive change.

Jane holds a BA, Master’s in Library Science and Diploma in Public Administration from the Universities of Toronto and Western Ontario.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.