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Taryn Graham is a bilingual applied researcher, educator, and social justice advocate with a passion for promoting health and reducing inequities, especially among children and families. She is the Evaluation & Impact Lead for the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation, where she helps lead the evaluation and expansion of the Early Words/Premiers mots program, using evidence to…
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Em is a Program Manager at the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation where she contributes to the implementation of the Early Words program through systems advancements and program infrastructure development. With a long-held passion for children’s literature, Em believes that stories have the unique power to inform, engage, and expand our understanding of the world around…
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Cécile Henderson is the Senior Manager for Early Words, Nunavut. At the beginning of her career, Cécile qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Whilst working for KPMG, she became involved in a joint KPMG/King’s College London “Maths Partners” scheme which provided numeracy mentoring to primary school children in…
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Alika Lafontaine is an award-winning physician, speaker, alignment consultant, and the first Indigenous physician to be listed by The Medical Post as one of Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Doctors. He is recognized internationally as an expert on Indigenous health systems, institutional bias, racism and reflective practice. Dr. Lafontaine is currently the Canadian Medical Association’s President,…
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As the former President of Rogers Sports & Media, Jordan Banks was responsible for the $2 billion business and approximately 4,000 employees across Canada from a variety of sports and media properties, consisting of 23 conventional and specialty TV channels including Sportsnet, 29 local TV stations, 56 radio stations, 3 OTT services, 2 podcast networks,…
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Maryanne Wolf is Visiting Professor and Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA. She is the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (14 translations; HarperCollins, 2007); Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Reader, Come Home:…
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Peter Mansbridge is an award-winning journalist and author, a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a member of numerous boards and committees. He is best known for his five decades of work at the CBC where he was Chief Correspondent of CBC News and anchor of…
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Deepak Kaura is a pediatric radiologist and Chief Medical Officer of 1QBit, a Vancouver-based quantum computing software company. Dr. Kaura leads the development of ground-breaking advanced artificial intelligence solutions in health and life sciences. As a leader in the industry, he has built enterprise partnerships for data, developing and clinically validating several machine learning products…
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Ellis Jacob was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada’s largest motion picture exhibition company, Cineplex, in October 2005. His 31 years of leadership in the motion picture exhibition industry have transformed the movie-going experience for Canadians. Mr. Jacob is also an active philanthropist. He is a member of the Board of Directors at…
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Referred to as “the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong,” Colonel Chris Hadfield is a worldwide sensation whose video of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” — seen by over 75 million people online — was called “possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created,” by Bowie himself. Acclaimed for making outer space accessible to…