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=== Dale Booth ===
=== Dale Booth ===
Owner and President, Innovation7
|Dale Booth is the Owner and President of Innovation7, and a Subject Matter Expert who specializes in the field of business, community and economic development. With more than 20 years of experience working with Aboriginal people, all levels of governments and in the construction industry, he is known as a visionary leader with special and tested talents for shaping productive, cooperative working environments by eliminating deficits and creating a successful corporate vision for the future.
|Dale Booth is the Owner and President of Innovation7, and a Subject Matter Expert who specializes in the field of business, community and economic development. With more than 20 years of experience working with Aboriginal people, all levels of governments and in the construction industry, he is known as a visionary leader with special and tested talents for shaping productive, cooperative working environments by eliminating deficits and creating a successful corporate vision for the future.
=== Stefania Di Mauro-Nava ===
=== Stefania Di Mauro-Nava ===
Director of Development, Metrolab
|Stefania serves as MetroLab's Director of Development, focused on curating and implementing federal, philanthropic, and corporate development efforts for the organization. Prior to this role, Stefania served in several other capacities at MetroLab, helping to deploy programs, creating communications content, and implementing MetroLab’s Data Science and Human Services portfolio among other activities. Stefania has spent her career working at the nexus of science, technology and society, forging bridges between technical and nontechnical communities in this space. Prior to MetroLab, she served as a Science & Innovation Officer at the British Consulate-General in San Francisco and as an External Development Manager at CRDF Global in Arlington, VA. Stefania is a certified project management professional (PMP) and holds a M.A. in International Science and Technology Policy from George Washington University and a B.A. in International Studies from American University.
|Stefania serves as MetroLab's Director of Development, focused on curating and implementing federal, philanthropic, and corporate development efforts for the organization. Prior to this role, Stefania served in several other capacities at MetroLab, helping to deploy programs, creating communications content, and implementing MetroLab’s Data Science and Human Services portfolio among other activities. Stefania has spent her career working at the nexus of science, technology and society, forging bridges between technical and nontechnical communities in this space. Prior to MetroLab, she served as a Science & Innovation Officer at the British Consulate-General in San Francisco and as an External Development Manager at CRDF Global in Arlington, VA. Stefania is a certified project management professional (PMP) and holds a M.A. in International Science and Technology Policy from George Washington University and a B.A. in International Studies from American University.
Co-Founder, Monumental
Co-Founder, Monumental
|Zahra Ebrahim is the Co-Founder of Monumental. She is a public interest designer and strategist, and an established bridge builder across grassroots and institutional spaces. Her work has focused on community-led approaches to policy, infrastructure, and service design. Prior to Monumental, she built and led Doblin Canada, Deloitte’s Human-Centred Design practice. In her early career, Zahra led one of Canada’s first social design studios, working with communities to co-design towards better social outcomes, leading some of Canada’s most ambitious participatory infrastructure and policy programs. Zahra is currently an Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, and an Adjunct Professor at the Daniels School of Architecture . She has been recognized as a Next City Vanguard Civic Leader, Ascend Canada’s Mentor of the Year, one of WXN’s Top 100 Women in Canadian Business, and most recently recognized as one of the Urban Land Institute’s WLI Champions. Zahra is currently a Board member of the Toronto Arts Council, and the Board Chair for Park People.
|Zahra Ebrahim is the Co-Founder of Monumental. She is a public interest designer and strategist, and an established bridge builder across grassroots and institutional spaces. Her work has focused on community-led approaches to policy, infrastructure, and service design. Prior to Monumental, she built and led Doblin Canada, Deloitte’s Human-Centred Design practice. In her early career, Zahra led one of Canada’s first social design studios, working with communities to co-design towards better social outcomes, leading some of Canada’s most ambitious participatory infrastructure and policy programs. Zahra is currently an Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, and an Adjunct Professor at the Daniels School of Architecture . She has been recognized as a Next City Vanguard Civic Leader, Ascend Canada’s Mentor of the Year, one of WXN’s Top 100 Women in Canadian Business, and most recently recognized as one of the Urban Land Institute’s WLI Champions. Zahra is currently a Board member of the Toronto Arts Council, and the Board Chair for Park People.
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=== Ursula Eicker ===
Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities
|'''Ursula Eicker''' is the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities and Founder and Director of the [https://www.concordia.ca/research/chairs/smart-cities.html Next-Generation Cities Institute at Concordia University] in Montréal. She works on decarbonization strategies for cities using living labs and urban digital twins for scenario modeling, user engagement and operational optimization.
Her research interests cover zero emission and smart cities, renewable energy integration, and sustainable urban infrastructure. With a team of about 50 graduate students and software developers she is working on multiple eco-district projects in Canada and builds the urban modeling and data analytics platform Tools4Cities. To engage users, 3D city models can be accessed via web interfaces or immersive gamification tools. Prof. Eicker has published 8 books, 20 book contributions, over 140 Peer-Reviewed Papers and more than 340 Conference Papers.
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=== Colin Ellard ===
Professor, University of Waterloo
|Colin Ellard is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory. Ellard works at the intersection of urban and architectural design and experimental psychology. He has developed a novel set of methods by which the human response to the built environment can be measured using a toolkit consisting of both traditional psychological methods and sensor-based measurements of physiology and brain function. Ellard publishes his work frequently in the peer-reviewed scientific literature but he also engages in extensive knowledge mobilization work involving collaboration and partnership with architects, museums and other NGOs. Ellard is an Urban Design and Mental Health Fellow, a Salzburg Global Fellow and an editor of the Journal of Environmental Psychology and the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health. Ellard’s most recent book is Places of the Heart (Bellevue Literary Press, 2015).
To find out more about Colin, [https://uwaterloo.ca/psychology/profiles/colin-ellard click here]
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To find our more about Lisa, [[/lisahelpscities.ca/|click here]]
To find our more about Lisa, [[/lisahelpscities.ca/|click here]]
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==='''Dr. Jayne Malenfant'''===
Professor at the Faculty of Education, McGill University in Tio'tiá:ke / Montreal
|Jayne Malenfant is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education, McGill University in Tio'tiá:ke/Montreal. They are from Kapuskasing, Ontario.
Their research focuses on the intersections of the right to education and right to housing, research leadership by people with lived and living experience of homelessness, and the experiences of Two-Spirit, trans, and non-binary communities navigating housing precarity.
To learn more about Jayne and McGill University, [https://www.mcgill.ca/education/jayne-malenfant#:~:text=Jayne%20is%20from%20Kapuskasing%2C%20Ontario,and%20anarchist%2Fsocial%20justice%20education. click here].
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=== James McKellar ===
=== James McKellar ===
Professor Emeritus, Schulich School of Business, York University
Professor Emeritus, Schulich School of Business, York University
|James McKellar, was Associate Dean, Schulich School of Business, York University, and Professor in the Brookfield Centre in Real Estate and Infrastructure. Prior to joining York University, he was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and also held faculty appointments at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. He has lectured at universities in North America, Asia and Europe and addressed various industry and government groups across the world. Professor McKellar has a life‐long involvement in many parts of the world on housing, development, finance and investment, asset management, and market performance. He served as Technical Advisor to the Third International Shelter Conference, 1990, sponsored by the U.N. On the practical side, he was also a home builder. For the past decade his teaching and research has focused on private investments in infrastructure and recently released [https://www.routledge.com/Infrastructure-as-Business-The-Role-of-Private-Investment-Capital/McKellar/p/book/9781032493176 Infrastructure as Business: The Role of Private Investment Capital], Routledge, September 2023.
|James McKellar, was Associate Dean, Schulich School of Business, York University, and Professor in the Brookfield Centre in Real Estate and Infrastructure. Prior to joining York University, he was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and also held faculty appointments at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. He has lectured at universities in North America, Asia and Europe and addressed various industry and government groups across the world.
Professor McKellar has a life‐long involvement in many parts of the world on housing, development, finance and investment, asset management, and market performance. He served as Technical Advisor to the Third International Shelter Conference, 1990, sponsored by the U.N. On the practical side, he was also a home builder. For the past decade his teaching and research has focused on private investments in infrastructure and recently released [https://www.routledge.com/Infrastructure-as-Business-The-Role-of-Private-Investment-Capital/McKellar/p/book/9781032493176 Infrastructure as Business: The Role of Private Investment Capital], Routledge, September 2023.
To learn more about James and Schulich School of Business, [https://schulich.yorku.ca/faculty/james-mckellar/ click here].
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To learn more about Mary and the CUI, [[/canurb.org/team/|click here]].
To learn more about Mary and the CUI, [[/canurb.org/team/|click here]].
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=== Conrad Speckert ===
Architect, LGA Architectural Partners
|Conrad is an intern architect at LGA Architectural Partners in Toronto with degrees from McGill and Waterloo. He is leading a CMHC-sponsored research project to develop alternative solutions to the building code requirement for two staircases in small multi-unit residential buildings and has proposed a corresponding change to the National Building Code of Canada. This was a recommendation of the 2023 National Housing Accord, the 2022 Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force and the original 2010 City of Toronto Midrise Performance Standards. The work has also been presented at conferences of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association, Urban Land Institute, Building Officials Association of British Columbia, Ontario Association of Architects and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Conrad originally joined LGA as project manager for ‘ReHousing’ - a collaboration with the University of Toronto to visualize gentle density and zoning by-law reform for “missing middle” housing and previously worked for other architects in Toronto, Vancouver, Berlin, and Tokyo.
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