Safe Sport Forum Speaker Bios Table of Contents
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Safe Sport Forum Speaker Bios Table of Contents Panel 1: Athletes’ Voices ............................................................................................................. 2 Allison Forsyth, Alpine Skiing, Co-Chair, Safe Sport Committee ................................................................2 Erin Wilson, Artistic Swimming, Co-Chair, Safe Sport Committee .............................................................2 Michele Donnelly, Assistant Professor, Sport Management (Moderator) ...................................................3 Panel 2: Governance and “System Re-Engineering” ................................................................ 4 Peter Donnelly, Professor, Sport Policy and Politics, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education .4 Gretchen Kerr, Professor, Gender Equity and Gender-Based Violence in Sport ......................................4 Bruce Kidd, Professor, Sport and Public Policy, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education ..........5 Michele Donnelly, Assistant Professor, Sport Management (Moderator) ...................................................7 Panel 3: Legal Implications ......................................................................................................... 9 Daria (Dasha) Peregoudova, Lawyer, Athlete Advocate, Retired Elite Athlete .......................................9 Bobby Sahni, Thought-Leader, Diversity Advocate, Communicator ........................................................ 10 Kate Scallion, Lawyer, Sports Person, Sport & Community advocate .................................................... 10 Hilary Findlay, Centre for Sport Capacity – Member, Retired Associate Professor, Sport Management (Moderator) ................................................................................................................................ 11 Panel 4: Coach Education .......................................................................................................... 13 Isabelle Cayer, Director, Sport Safety .......................................................................................................... 13 Kasey Liboiron, Manager, Sport Community and Engagement ................................................................. 13 Peter Niedre, Director, Education Partnerships, Policy Development and LTAD ................................. 14 Michael Van Bussel, Assistant Professor, Sport Management (Moderator) ............................................. 14 2 Panel 1: Athletes’ Voices Allison Forsyth, Alpine Skiing, Co-Chair, Safe Sport Committee Born and raised on Vancouver Island B.C., Allison began her competitive ski career at 5 years of age. Progressing quickly up the ranks and qualifying for the National Team at 17, she then competed exclusively on the World Cup Circuit of Alpine for 11 years. She is an 8-time Canadian Champion, has 5 World Cup podiums, and earned a bronze medal at the World Championships in 2003. After retiring in 2008 after her second Olympics, and due to injury, Allison worked for lululemon in the field of brand marketing for 10 years. Her passion for athletics and athlete advocacy has now launched her into a career of training, coaching, and brand consulting in Toronto, Ont. Most recently Allison has come forward to speak up about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her National Team coach, and is committed to being instrumental in seeing change in the realm of athlete safety in sport so all athletes have a safe, healthy sport environment as they strive to achieve their goals. Erin Wilson, Artistic Swimming, Co-Chair, Safe Sport Committee Erin is a retired Artistic Swimmer, representing Canada for 7 years. While part of Team Canada, her team won gold at the World Trophy in 2009, bronze medals at the 2009 and 3 2011 World Championships, a bronze medal at the 2010 World Cup, and was part of the team that placed 4th at the 2012 Olympics. Since retiring from her sport, Erin has focused her attention on academics. She completed a Masters at the University of Toronto, focusing specifically on abuse in sport and is currently pursuing a PhD in the same topic. She is passionate about ensuring athletes have a safe and inclusive environment while pursuing performance excellence. Michele Donnelly, Assistant Professor, Sport Management (Moderator) Dr. Donnelly is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Sport Management at Brock University. Dr. Donnelly has three lines of inquiry that inform both her research and teaching: 1. Social inequality; Ongoing projects in this area focus on gender equality in the Olympic Movement and at the Olympic Games, as well as in the governance of provincial, national, and international sport organizations. In addition, she studies athlete governance, particularly in emerging sports such as roller derby. 2. Alternative sports and subcultures; Ongoing projects in this area focus on girls and women onlyness, and particularly the organization and production of girls and women onlyness in sport and physical activity organizations such as girls-only skateboarding groups. 3. Qualitative research methods; She not only uses qualitative methods in her research, but she also studies research ethics and the politics of research with respect to qualitative methods. She also serves on Brock University’s Social Sciences Research Ethics Board. She is a co-founder, and now serves on the Advisory Board of the Girls on Track Foundation whose mission is, “to foster important life skills in girls, through participation in roller derby as skaters and decision makers”. 4 Panel 2: Governance and “System Re-Engineering” Peter Donnelly, Professor, Sport Policy and Politics, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education Peter Donnelly is Director of the Centre for Sport Policy Studies, and a Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto. He was born in England where he taught school for several years, and then studied for graduate degrees at the University of Massachusetts. His research interests include sport politics and policy issues, sport subcultures, and mountaineering (history). He has published numerous scholarly articles on these and other topics. His books include: three editions of Taking Sport Seriously: Social Issues in Canadian Sport (1997; 2000; 2011), and Inside Sports (1999) and the 1st and 2nd Canadian editions of Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies (both with Jay Coakley, 2004, 2009). Peter Donnelly was Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal (1990- 94), acting-Editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2004-06), and President of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (2001). Gretchen Kerr, Professor, Gender Equity and Gender-Based Violence in Sport Gretchen Kerr PhD is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education 5 and Vice-Dean of Programs and Innovation in the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. She has spent her academic career devoted to promoting safe and equitable sport opportunities for all through research and knowledge transfer and exchange. As a co-Director of E-Alliance, the Canadian Gender Equity in Sport Research Hub, Gretchen is engaged in establishing a broad network of researchers and partnerships across the country to advance gender+ equity in sport. Her research focuses on the two broad areas of gender equity in coaching and gender-based violence in sport. Gretchen was the senior author of Canada’s first national prevalence study of maltreatment among current and former national team members, the subject matter expert for the development of the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment, a policy mandated by Sport Canada for all National Sport Organizations, and a contributor to Safe Sport education. For over 30 years, she has served as a volunteer athlete welfare officer, a role that involves managing and investigating complaints of athlete maltreatment, and providing education for sport stakeholders. Bruce Kidd, Professor, Sport and Public Policy, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education Bruce Kidd is a retired Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, and the founding dean of that faculty (1998-2010). He has also served the University of Toronto as Vice President and Principal of the University of Toronto Scarborough (2014-2018), Warden of Hart House (2011-2015), Director of the School of Physical and Health Education (1991-1997), Director of Canadian Studies at University College (1986-1990), and a member of Governing Council (2016-2018). He has earned degrees from the University of Toronto (B.A., Political Economy), the University of Chicago (A.M., Education), and York University (M.A. and Ph.D., History), and an honorary doctor of laws from Dalhousie University. Bruce teaches and writes about the history and political economy of Canadian and international sport and physical activity. He has authored or edited 12 books and hundreds of articles, papers, lectures, plays and film and radio scripts. The Struggle for Canadian Sport (University of Toronto Press 1996), which recaptures the efforts of sport leaders in 6 Canada in the period between the First and Second World War, won the Book Prize of the North American Society for Sport History in 1997. His most recent book (co-written with Simon Darnell and Russell Field) is The History and Politics of Sport for Development (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). A memoir, A runner’s journey, will be published by University