Rachel (she/her) is the current Interim Executive Director of the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation. Prior to holding this role, she was the Director – Spur Change Program, while her colleague Andréanne Martel was on parental leave.
Before joining the ACGC team, she was the acting Executive Director, and former Vice-president of the Board, for the Pacific Peoples’ Partnership, a Canadian NGO dedicated to supporting the work of Pacific Islanders through community-led initiatives. She is also active within her local community as a volunteer with her child’s school and as a member of the Canadian International Council (CIC), including previously acting as Community Advisor, and former co-chair, to the South Vancouver Island (SOVI) chapter of the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC). For five years away from paid work, she had the privilege of spending the majority of her moments with her young child, and prior to this time, she was the National Coordinator for the ICN (Inter-Council Network).She has worked and volunteered in various capacities with partners both locally and internationally, including AMREF Health Africa, Shanti Uganda, and Class Afloat, largely focused on community building, knowledge sharing, and good practices in non-profit governance. She loves cycling but has trouble changing tire tubes, and she is currently working her way through reading the books she bought last year, because she tends to be overly ambitious about her reading time. She is currently enjoying the shifting of the seasons to autumn, as she joins the ACGC team from and lives with gratitude on the lands the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples (also known as Victoria, British Columbia. |
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