Meet our team
We are a transdisciplinary team of researchers and community leaders
The people at work
John Robinson
Project Co-lead
Anne Gloger
Project Co-lead
Blake Poland
Academic Team
Paty Romero-Lankao
Academic Team
Cheryl Teelucksingh
Academic Team
Pamela Robinson
Academic Team
Sahar Vermezyari
Community Partner
Carolyn Saenz
Community Partner
Rosana Rampersaud
Community Partner
East Scarborough Storefront
Laura Hammond
Commuity Partner
Kim Slater
Consultant
Director, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, Canadian Red Cross
Bronwyn Clement
PhD Student
Janna Radi Mohamed
MHSc Student
Mahassen Ramadan
PhD Student
Upasana Bhattacharjee
PhD Student
Emily Smit
PhD Student
Majd Al-Shihabi
PhD Student
Governance Structure
Core Steering Group
Members: John, Anne, Blake, Pamela, Paty, Cheryl, Kim, Emily
Purpose: Maintain ethos of the project, oversee working groups, sub-projects, and activities
Management Group
Members: Anne, Sahar, Rosana, Emily
Purpose: Perform project administration and university-related business (e.g. proposals, funding, etc.)
Ad Hoc Working Groups
Members: Various, task-specific
Purpose: Organize and run specific sub-projects, funding proposals, momentum surfacing, social network, understanding of working with community
OUR SHARED AIM
To explore how our participatory Connected Communities approach – equitable and integrated strategies that embed climate and resilience strategies in more general approaches to achieving community priorities – can support and influence the action of policy-makers and decision-makers from multiple sectors.
Partnership
Visionary Communities is a community-university led project that is funded in part by the City of Toronto.
