Meet our team
We are a transdisciplinary team of researchers and community leaders
The people at work
John Robinson
Project Co-lead
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
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
Kim Slater
Consultant
Director, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, Canadian Red Cross
Majd Al-Shihabi
PhD Student
Emily Smit
PhD Student
Christoph Becker
Academic Team
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Han Qiao
PhD Student
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Visionary Communities has three leadership teams
WHAT
Purpose: Ensuring accountability to the KGO community
Members: Sahar, Cheryl, Han, John, Anne, Emily
SO WHAT
Purpose: Philosophically and theoretically exploring the implications of the project in the context of systems change
Members: Blake, Paty, Christoph, Majd, John, Anne, Emily
NOW WHAT
Purpose: To understand how lessons and insights from the project can influence broader structures of society
Members: Pamela, Kim, John, Anne, Emily
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.
