Co-Chair
Elizabeth is a community planner and designer with over 20 years of experience in community housing, neighbourhood planning, land use policy and project management. She is dedicated to working on projects that create more inclusive communities and that take real steps to restore balance with nature. Elizabeth is also the mama of two awesome kids, an enthusiastic cyclist, trail runner and gardener.
Co-Chair
Mairi is a career strategic planning and communications professional with over 30 years’ experience across a variety of industries within the private and public sectors. She has brought her insightful and practical approach to working with organizations and clients in the non-profit and private sectors, and spent many years working with all four levels of government. She currently sits on the Boards of Directors for the Recycling Council of British Columbia, Salt Spring Solutions, and past chairperson of the Salt Spring Housing Council, and is a member of the guest faculty team for Capilano University’s Municipal Administration Training Institute on Advanced Communications Skills in Local Government.
Board Member
Darlene is a life-long social change activist, adult educator, facilitator and program manager who loves to work collaboratively with groups and communities to learn, plan and get organized. She specializes in facilitating community and organizational decision-making processes, creating and delivering training and professional development programs, counselling, and campaign/project management. She has spent her whole career in the non-profit sector, working in small communities, big cities and internationally. Her favourite place to be is living on the islands of British Columbia, surrounded by water and wonderful people.
board member
Kerrie Proulx supports the development and implementation of evidence-based policies and programs to improve the health and well-being of children and their families, especially those in vulnerable situations. She provides technical assistance, data analysis and evaluation to governments worldwide and international agencies, including UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank. She is committed to promoting and protecting healthy environments – green space, clean air, safe roads – and affordable housing. She holds a PhD from the University of Warwick in the UK.
Engagement Manager
Pam brings deep experience in engagement to the Salt Spring community. As an entertainment and advertising executive producer, she has produced myriad media and messaging projects, and in the process founded industry-changing companies, organizations and trade associations to invigorate those business communities. She has championed work with non-profit organizations to empower social and political change, including Rock The Vote and Council for a Livable World. More recently, her work on regenerative agriculture with American Farmland Trust and The Carbon Underground supports a focus on food security as a fundamental unifying issue. She is inspired to help create systemic solutions to Salt Spring’s interrelated challenges – fundamental here, as a microcosm for global change.
Administration Coordinator
Kristin is a long-time Islander. She returned to the Salt Spring following university with a desire to continue living and working in her home community. Growing up on Salt Spring Island gave her the opportunity to make friends of all ages and backgrounds and this frequently led to new explorations in both academic and creative studies. She considers this early experience instrumental in developing a keen curiosity for learning that has led (and continues to lead) to subsequent study in many areas, both formal and informal. Kristin has served in various leadership and management roles on Salt Spring and beyond. She currently enjoys working with local nonprofits and participating in the shared joys and challenges of community life.
