Sue Tennant - President
Sue is an entrepreneur and owns Silver Springs Retreat, a corporate and culinary retreat near Flesherton. She was ordained an Interfaith minister in 1992 at the New Seminary in NYC and later founded the Multifaith Festival of the Family (ROM, Toronto) and the Ontario chapter of World Interfaith Education Association in (now Interfaith Ontario). A trip to India in 1994 gave her a strong desire to help improve life there for illiterate women and girls deprived of education. She founded FreeSchools World Literacy in 2005. She and her husband reside in Collingwood, Ontario.
Aita Pompilio – Secretary
Aita has a business/accounting background with an international firm, including industry, professionals and foundations. She has been a volunteer with Catholic Children's Aid and special events Coordinator with Variety Village. She served 17 years on various boards with Alpine Skiing in Canada. As Race Chairman, her duties included budgets, reports, fundraising and liaising with all the clubs in Ontario. In 1988, she received Ontario's Alpine Volunteer of the Year Award. Aita currently resides in Collingwood, Ontario.
David Graves – Treasurer
Dave is retired from a career as a Combat Systems Engineering Officer with the Canadian Navy and currently continues to be employed with Nortel where he is part of the team developing new technologies to support telephony and broadcast television across the Internet. Outside of the workplace, he is very interested in what he describes as "the brotherhood of man" and his website www.fogbom.ca speaks to this interest. The proud father of two sons and a daughter, and grand-father of three grand-daughters and a grand-son, Dave and his wife currently reside in the village of Fitzroy Harbour (now part of Ottawa), Ontario.
Heather Meier
Heather is the former Dean of Alma College, St Thomas, Ontario and has lived in Denmark for the last ten years. She works with her husband as administrator in the Scandinavian head office of Photon Technology International, based in New Jersey with a manufacturing plant in London, Ontario, producing analytical optical equipment for bio-medical research for universities and industry.
Dr. Heather Palmer
Heather is the Founder and Director of Cognitive Rehabilitation for Maximum Capacity Inc. She has a PhD in Neuropsychology, has published many papers on brain-behavior relationships, speaks internationally on the topic of cognitive enhancement, and runs programs to help individuals improve their thinking capacity. She and her husband are raising their three young children in Bradford, Ontario, where Heather is actively involved in a variety of school and community projects.
Joan Pajunen
Joan has had an accomplished international career in the service sector of a variety of industries, some of which include international chains and independent retail stores, hospitality, tourism and banking. Through the course of her career she has provided Board leadership to 14 different organizations from Founding Chair to Director, specializing in issues around governance, for various retail, utilities, health/medical and volunteer communities. Joan is an active consultant, author, speaker, columnist and commentator and lives with her husband in the Town of the Blue Mountains, Collingwood.
Sonja de Roo
Sonja is a dynamic consultant with vast experience in broadcast TV sales, executive incentive trip planning, media buying and corporate and philanthropic event planning. She has been involved in a range of not for profit organizations and their initiatives such as Interfaith Mosaic’s Out of the Cold, Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario’s Miracle Network Telethon and the Mennonite Central Committee’s IVEP Program. Sonja and her husband and two children live in Stouffville and have been a host family for a cultural education program. At this time they have opened their home to a young man from Brazil.
Wendy Durand
Wendy began her formal education with a diploma in Early Childhood Education and completed it with a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University, while raising her two children. During her 15 year stay in the United States she worked in the non-profit sector, in the capacity of educator and director. She has chaired and served on numerous community boards, committees and councils.
Dr. Sadhana Prasad
Born in India, Sadhana immigrated to Canada in 1967 with her father, an engineering professor at the University of Waterloo. While studying there she met her husband and completed her medical degree at McMaster University and specialty training at the University of Toronto. She developed her interest in Geriatrics while working at the Baycrest Center for Geriatric Care in Toronto and since 1982, has practiced the art of Internal Medicine / Geriatrics back in her hometown of Waterloo. Since 1987, while nurturing her 3 children, she has provided leadership and innovation in her community. In keeping with this tradition and with strong family support, she was moved to establish KhadiOrganics, a not-for-profit organization that assists small farmers in India. She makes time to spend with her family, climbs mountains, hikes, skis, and gardens - ever sensitive to the issues of the environment.

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