Session 1: Leadership reflection and connecting January 28, 2021

In addition to providing an introduction and clarifying the expectations of the program, the opening session creates an opportunity to form connections within the group and begin conversations that we will build on in the months ahead. This includes building a basic knowledge base about policy, policy-making, and policy-makers, as well as the impact of implicit bias on policy work.

Participants will: • Develop their understanding of policy and policymaking • Discuss the challenges and opportunities in achieving policy change during the pandemic • Identify their experience in the policymaking process and receive tips for articulating and mobilizing stories to amplify their personal and organizational impact • Discuss implicit bias and its impact on policy work

9:00 a.m. Welcome and land acknowledgement

9:05 a.m. Remarks from Elizabeth McIsaac, President, Maytree

9:10 a.m. Remarks from Alan Broadbent, Chairman, Maytree

9:20 a.m. Introduction to Maytree Policy School, Tina Edan, Lead, Maytree Policy School

9:30 a.m. Policy leadership spotlight: Interview with MPS alumna Leila Sarangi

9:45 a.m. Breakout session: your policy journey

10:20 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. Your policy journey, debrief

10:55 a.m. Presentation and discussion: Defining policy and policymaking by Karim Bardeesy, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Ryerson Leadership Lab, MPS Faculty

11:20 a.m. Presentation and discussion: Implicit bias and public policy, Nneka MacGregor, Executive Director, WomenatthecentrE

11:50 a.m. Closing remarks from Elizabeth McIsaac

12:00 p.m. Session ends

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Speaker bios

Alan Broadbent, Chairman, Maytree

Alan Broadbent is Chairman and Founder of Maytree, and Chairman and CEO of Avana Capital Corporation. He co-founded and chaired the Caledon Institute of Social Policy (1992-2017) and the Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement (2004-2019), and was a Director and Chair of Sustainalytics Holdings B.V. (2009-2020). Alan chairs the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the , and is also Chair of the Toronto Inner-City Rugby Foundation, Chair of the Common Good Retirement Savings Initiative Steering Committee, Senior Fellow, Member and former Chair of the Governing Board of Massey College, and Member of the Order of Canada and recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Alan is the author of Urban Nation: Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong; and You’re It (with Franca Gucciardi); and co-editor of Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success. Alan was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Ryerson University in 2009, and from Queen’s University in 2015.

Elizabeth McIsaac, President, Maytree

Elizabeth is leading Maytree in shaping the discussion around poverty and human rights in Canada. She is a dedicated builder and champion for the non-profit sector, with extensive experience in research, teaching and direct service provision. Elizabeth has a deep history with Maytree; she previously served as the Director of Policy and was the executive director of one of Maytree’s signature ideas: the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC). Most recently, Elizabeth established and led Mowat NFP (Not-for-Profit Policy) at the Mowat Centre, where she conducted and directed research analyzing the challenges facing the non-profit sector today. Elizabeth holds an MA in Sociology in Education from the University of Toronto – Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Karim Bardeesy, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Ryerson Leadership Lab

Karim Bardeesy is a public service leader who has worked in progressively senior roles in public policy, politics, journalism and academia in Toronto and the United States since 2001. He is the Co-Founder and current Executive Director of the Ryerson Leadership Lab, an action-oriented at Ryerson University.

He is also a board member of The Atmospheric Fund and Corporate Knights, Inc., a member of the Banff Forum, a founding faculty member of Maytree Policy School, and a co-founder of DemocracyXChange, Canada’s democracy summit, and the pandemic publishing project First Policy Response.

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Karim was previously Deputy Principal Secretary for the Premier of Ontario, the Honourable Kathleen Wynne, and served as Executive Director of Policy for Premiers Wynne and Dalton McGuinty. He has worked as a journalist, an editorial writer at The Globe and Mail, and as an editorial assistant at Slate magazine, and his policy writing has also been published in The Toronto Star, The Washington Post, and Maclean’s. He has taught narrative and leadership at the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance and was a DiverseCity Fellow with the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance.

Karim holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He grew up in Bathurst, New Brunswick and is the son of immigrants from Egypt and England. He and his wife Rachel Pulfer are raising their children in Toronto’s west end.

Leila Sarangi, Director, Social Action / National Coordinator, Campaign 2000 at Family Service Toronto; Researcher, organizer, amplifier of experience, facilitator of change

Leila Sarangi is the Director of Social Action at Family Service Toronto and the National Coordinator of Campaign 2000. With over 20 years of front line, research, and policy experience, Leila understands that the people experiencing systemic marginalization can be the furthest away from decision making. Her professional experience demonstrates commitment to connecting lived reality with public policy, and advocating with and engaging people in a meaningful way to inform policy and legislative changes.

Leila began her career working in homeless and women’s shelters across Toronto. Her community-based research has taken her into diverse low-income neighbourhoods across Toronto, and as far as rural India. As a community builder, she has worked intentionally to create spaces for people with lived expertise of poverty and violence to direct and participate in social actions of all kinds. She uses an intersectional gender equity lens to think critically and strategically, work with diverse communities, engage the media, and successfully impact public policy.

Leila is a recognized leader in influencing the City of Toronto to commit to integrating an intersectional gender analysis to its policy work. Her long-term efforts, which included facilitating the participation of over 2,000 diverse low-income women and gender-diverse people in the public process of developing Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, contributed to the creation of the City’s Equity Budgeting Review process and the Gender Equity Strategy and Gender Equality Office at the City of Toronto.

In addition to her gender equity work, her social action leadership and research experience spans a variety of issue areas including police accountability, poverty reduction, housing and homelessness, gender-based violence, and immigration.

An avid city cyclist, Leila lives, volunteers, and raises her three children in Parkdale, Toronto.

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Nneka MacGregor, Executive Director, WomenatthecentrE

Nneka MacGregor, LL.B. is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Centre for Social Justice, better known as WomenatthecentrE, a unique non-profit organization created by and for women and trans survivors of gender-based violence globally. She is also co-host of the engaging podcast “What’s Your Safe Word?”

Nneka is an advocate who works with governments, organizations, and individuals to transform lives and build violence-free communities. In 2006, she was selected by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario as one of 13 experts tasked to review the range of services provided to women and children in the province, identify gaps and make recommendations. In June, 2016, she was appointed by the Canadian government to the Advisory Council on the Federal Strategy Against Gender-Based Violence.

An international speaker and trainer, she has developed and facilitated training to various sectors, and was one of the 12 Canadian women delegates appointed to the 63rd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW63). Nneka is also an Expert Advisory Panel Member of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability.

Nneka sits on several Advisory Boards and Committees, including the Family Law Committee of the Board of Legal Aid Ontario. She recently became a member of the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee, at the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General. Her research focus is on sexual violence and on the intersection of strangulation, Traumatic Brain Injury and Inter- Personal Violence. She was a recipient of the 2019 PINK Concussions Awards and is also the recipient of the YWCA Women of Distinction 2020 award for Social Justice.

An entrepreneur with almost three decades of business experience, Nneka is the founder and Managing Partner at Nneka & Co, where she continues to support organizations develop their strategy, people, culture, and community. The consultancy focuses on Stakeholder-Centric EDI © - a unique and comprehensive framework to engage organizations in equity, diversity, and inclusion work. Her expertise is on nurturing women’s leadership in business at the intersection of gender, race and ability. Nneka recently retired from the Board of Directors of Moatfield Foundation of Bayview Glen School, where she served for 11 years, six of which as Chair and CEO of the Bayview Glen Foundation. She supports other non-profits and charitable organizations with governance training and developing effective Board culture.

She is the proud mother of three amazing children, Aly, Alexander and Christiana, and human companion to Basil (The Wonder Dog) and Renfrew, The Cat.

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