Wellesley Institute

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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Simone Atungo

Simone Atungo

Board Member

As a highly renowned and award-winning community leader, Simone provides over 30 years of experience in community-based not-for-profit and public sector organizations. Simone’s expertise includes strategic and operational planning, change management, policy and program development, facilitation, community-based research, advocacy and community relations. Prior to joining the Anne Johnston Health Station – Tobias House Attendant Care Services as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Simone served as Vice-President, Resident and Community Services at Toronto Community Housing Corporation, the second largest housing provider in North America. Simone is also the former Director of Community Development & Integration at Mount Sinai Hospital, and the former Executive Director of the Parkdale Community Health Centre. Simone holds a Masters degree in Environmental Studies and a Non-profit Management Certificate both from York University and an Executive Leadership Program Certificate from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

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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.