Safe Sport Forum Speaker Bios Table of Contents

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

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”.

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 of Toronto Press in September 2021.

Bruce has worked with numerous local, national and international bodies to advance opportunities for physical activity and sport. He currently serves on the Federal-Provincial- Territorial Work Group on Women in Sport.

He has been a lifelong advocate of human rights and athletes’ rights. He was the Canadian director of the international campaign against apartheid sport, which marshalled the power of sport against the brutal racist dictatorship of apartheid South Africa, for which he was honoured by the Commonwealth and the United Nations. He co-chaired the national work group whose recommendations led to the creation of the Sport Dispute Resolution of Canada. He has long been an advocate for gender equity, sexual diversity, ethno-cultural diversity and universal accessibility in sports. He was an advisor to the Indian sprinter Dutee Chand in her successful effort to overturn the 2011 sex test in international sport and supports Caster Semanya’s efforts to overturn the 2018 version of that test.

He was a co-founder of Commonwealth Games Canada’s International Development through Sport Program, which conducted activities in some 22 African and Caribbean Commonwealth countries, and served as the program’s volunteer chair for many years. He initiated the University of Toronto’s partnerships with the Universities of Namibia and Zambia to strengthen teacher preparation in physical education as preventive education about HIV/AIDS. In 2007, he coordinated the literature reviews that shaped the structure and policies of the United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace. As Chair of the Commonwealth Advisory Body on Sport from 2009 to 2013, he significantly strengthened the Commonwealth Secretariat’s commitment to sport for development. He was founding chair of the MLSE Foundation.

His research and policy advice contributed to the development of several institutions in the Canadian sports system, including the Athlete Assistance Program and the Sport Canada Research Initiative. He was the chair of the advisory committee that led the federal government to introduce the Canadian Sport Policy in 2002 and to revise the Fitness and Amateur Sport Act, now the Physical Activity and Sport Act, in 2003. In 2016-2018, he was co-chair of the Federal Provincial Territorial Work Group on Women in Sport, whose recommendations were accepted by Canada’s sports ministers at their recent meeting in Red Deer, Alberta and are now being implemented.

Bruce helped create and renew a number of the important facilities in Toronto. He was the chair of the advocacy group that successfully pushed for the creation of the Toronto Track and Field Centre located at York University and during the planning stages, chaired the design committee. At the University of Toronto, he played a leading role in the creation of the Athletic and Physical Education Centre, the redevelopment of Varsity Centre, including 7

the rebuilt Varsity Stadium, the Pavilion and the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sports, and the turfing of the Back Campus Playing Fields, all on the St. George campus. He contributed to the creation of the Toronto Pan American Sports Centre at the University of Toronto Scarborough, the remarkable legacy facility from the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games, and now serves on its board.

Bruce has been involved in the Olympic Movement throughout his life. He has participated in the Games as an athlete (track and field, 1964), journalist (1976), contributor to the arts and culture programs (1976 and 1988) and accredited social scientist (1988 and 2000). He was founding chair of the Olympic Academy of Canada (1983-1993), served on the board for Toronto’s 1996 and 2008 Olympic bids and was deeply involved in planning the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games in Toronto. He has served as a member of the selection committee for the IOC’s Research Grant Program and has lectured at the International Olympic Academy in Ancient Olympia, Greece. He is an honorary member of the Canadian Olympic Committee.

As an athlete, Bruce was Commonwealth champion in the 6 miles at the 1962 Games in Perth, Australia. Twice elected Canada’s Male Athlete of the Year by Canadian Press (1961 and 1962), he is a member of the Athletics Canada Hall of Fame, Athletics Ontario Hall of Fame, Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (as both an athlete and a builder), the University of Toronto Sports Hall of Fame and the Toronto Sport Hall of Honour. In 2005, he was awarded the Canadian Olympic Order. In 2006, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Commonwealth Sports Awards Foundation.

In 2004, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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: 8

Panel 3: Legal Implications

Daria (Dasha) Peregoudova, Lawyer, Athlete Advocate, Retired Elite Athlete

Dasha is a lawyer with the Toronto firm Aird & Berlis and a member of the firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group and Workplace Law Group. Her practice focuses on civil and commercial litigation, as well as complex employment and labour disputes. She works with a variety of companies and organizations on various employment-related matters, such as drafting contracts and policies, and has experience with labour issues in the unionized environment, including collective bargaining. She assists various sports organizations at the local, national and international levels, with a focus on governance.

Dasha is the past President of AthletesCAN having spent 8 years on the Board of Directors. She continues to work with the organization advocating for athletes' rights in the areas of athlete representation, safe sport, the international athlete movement, sport and leadership recognition, and development of the AthletesCAN athletes. Most recently, Dasha led AthletesCAN in the development of safe sport policy in Canada, including work on the development of the Universal Code of Conduct to Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS). She is a former Canadian national team athlete and two-time Pan American champion in taekwondo, and served as the Ombudsperson for Team Canada at the 2019 Pan American Games. She is a member of the Panam Sport Legal Commission, and an adjunct professor of sport law at the University of Western Ontario. Continuing in her role as an athlete advocate, Dasha has recently been appointed as the Ombudsperson for Team Canada for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In this role, Dasha will provide counsel to members of Team Canada during the Games helping them resolve legal issues and disputes so that they can fully focus on their own performance.

Bobby Sahni, Thought-Leader, Diversity Advocate, Communicator

Bobby Sahni is a thought-leader in the multicultural marketing and advertising industry. He is the co-founder and Partner at Ethnicity Matters – a leading authority on multicultural marketing & communications. Bobby understands the face of Canada is changing – we live in an increasingly diverse world. Change can present its challenges but it also presents opportunity.

Bobby has earned national and international recognition for his work. He loves sharing his ideas and insights, having guest-lectured at many universities and regularly speaking at industry events and conferences across North America. He has worked with MLSA, the Toronto Blue Jays, the CFL, Hockey Canada and the Greater Toronto Hockey league among a number of other sport organizations exploring insights and experiences of harassment and racism. He shares a positive and hopeful with a refreshing tone – one of opportunity and growth.

Bobby earned a joint MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Schulich School of Business at York University. Bobby has been engaged with a number of boards and currently sits on the advisory board for Imagine Canada and Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer in support of the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation and was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of Hockey Canada.

Kate Scallion, Lawyer, Sports Person, Sport & Community advocate

Kate Scallion is an Associate lawyer with the Victoria firm of Jones, Emery, Hargreaves & Swan. She currently has a general solicitor’s practice where she has opportunities to practice in areas such as employment and sports law. She has a particular interest in sports dispute resolution. Kate is a member of the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) legal roaster providing pro bono advice and representation to athletes.

She also advises corporate interests on governance and contract issues. Kate has previously published articles focusing on issues relevant to sport. Her Masters of Laws (LLM) thesis analyzed whether or not the Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to the Canadian Anti- Doping Program. She continues to follow and write about anti-doping, including amendments to the World Anti-Doping Code – the latest occurring in 2021. She has also written on gender equity in sport (“Gender Equality in Sport and the Limits of Law”) and safe sport (“Canada Needs an Actual Safe Sport System”) and is currently writing about transparency as a pillar of good governance in sport organizations.

Kate has been involved in sport all her life both as an athlete and a coach. She is currently coaching with the Strathcona Nordics Ski Club on Vancouver Island.

Hilary Findlay, Centre for Sport Capacity – Member, Retired Associate Professor, Sport Management (Moderator)

Hilary Findlay has spent her professional career working within the Canadian sport system as a lawyer, an advocate, a teacher and a researcher. Hilary’s work largely focused on athlete and participatory rights and obligations in the regulation of sport, including organizational 12

fairness and responsibility in the provision of a safe sport environment. Although recently retiring from the Department of Sport Management, Brock University, Hilary continues to stay engaged through the Centre for Sport Capacity, writing articles and is busy with an up- date of a previously authored textbook on sport and the law.

Panel 4: Coach Education

Isabelle Cayer, Director, Sport Safety

Isabelle Cayer is the Director, Sport Safety at the Coaching Association of Canada. Her goal is to make sport safe for everyone. She has worked at the National level of sport for over 20 years, focused on coach education and training, women in coaching, mentorship, inclusion and the professionalization of coaching in Canada. Her presentation will focus on the safe sport movement and the tools and resources available to the sport community.

Kasey Liboiron, Manager, Sport Community and Engagement

Kasey Liboiron is the Manager of Sport Community Engagement at the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport. In this role, she manages the outreach and engagement of True Sport. The True Sport Principles define Canada’s commitment to values-based sport and are activated and supported by Canadian communities, sport organizations, schools, groups and individuals who believe in the difference good sport can make. Previously, Kasey worked as a secondary school Physical and Health Educator – particularly passionate about inspiring a commitment to physical activity and wellness. Kasey holds Bachelors of Education, Science, and Physical and Health Education from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Peter Niedre, Director, Education Partnerships, Policy Development and LTAD

Peter Niedre is the Director of Education Partnerships for the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC). He has extensive experience as an educator, coach, and sports administrator. His goal is to ensure Canada remains a global leader in coaching development programming through the National Coaching Certification Program. Peter has experience not only with the CAC but also with the Canoe Kayak Canada where he led the organization’s national coaching education and athlete development programs as the Director of Athlete and Coach Development. His presentation for the forum will emphasize on the important role safe sport movement must play in the development of coaches through the CAC’s coaching education program.

Michael Van Bussel, Assistant Professor, Sport Management (Moderator)

Michael Van Bussel has over 18 years of academic, administrative, and service experience in Sport Management. His educational background includes a PhD focusing on Sport Law and Policy Studies from Western University. He held faculty positions at Jacksonville University, and Wilfrid Laurier University in the field of Sport Management. He has won awards in teaching and coaching and was named OUA (USPORT) Provincial Coach of the Year on two separate occasions with the Western University Women’s Soccer Program. His research interests include: Sport law, Risk Management, Governance and Policy, and Coach/Athlete Communication.