Staff

Dr. Kwame McKenzie – Chief Executive Officer
Brenda Roche – Director of Research
Jesse Rosenberg – Director of Policy
Michael Torres – Director of Communications

Abinaya Balasubramaniam – Junior Researcher, Toronto Police Services Project
Adwoa Afful – Junior Fellow
Bilqees Mohamed – Junior Researcher, North York Evictions Case Study
Emily Mooney – Project Lead, Community Knowledge Program
Erica Opoku – MPH Practicum Student
James Iveniuk – Researcher
Nadiya Troyan – Board Administrator and Office Manager
Nina Acco Weston – Associate Director
Nina Ambros – Communications Officer
Rebecca Cheff – Researcher
Sarah Sanford – Researcher
Scott Leon – Researcher
Seong-gee Um – Researcher
Shudipta Islam – Researcher, Community Violence Exposure Project
Stephanie Elliott – Research Coordinator
Tina Svensson – Manager of Operations
Tracy Watt – Office Coordinator and Board Executive Assistant
Vinusha Gunaseelan – Junior Fellow

Wellesley Senior Fellows

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.