Meet our team
We are a transdisciplinary team of researchers and community leaders





The people at work

John Robinson
Project Lead

Kim Slater
Project Lead

Blake Poland
Academic Team

Paty Romero-Lankao
Academic Team

Cheryl Teelucksingh
Academic Team

Pamela Robinson
Academic Team

Sahar Vermezyari
Community Partner

Anne Gloger
Community Partner

Majd Al-Shihabi
PhD Student

Desiree Kosciulek
MES Student

Upasana Bhattacharjee
PhD Student

Bronwyn Clement
PhD Student

Janna Radi Mohamed
MHSc Student

Mahassen Ramadan
MEd Student

Emily Smit
PhD Student

Sherry Lin
Community Partner

Laura Hammond
Commuity Partner

Carolyn Saenz
Community Partner

Rosana Rampersaud
Community Partner
East Scarborough Storefront
Governance Structure
Core Steering Group
Members: John, Kim, Emily, Blake, Anne, Pamela, Paty, Cheryl
Purpose: Maintain ethos of the project, oversee working groups, sub-projects, and activities
Management Group
Members: Kim, Sahar, Emily, Anne, John
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.
