Community Service and Outreach

NATIONAL-LEVEL COMMUNITY ROLES

  • President and Chair of the Board of Directors, Captain Nichola Goddard Foundation, Charlottetown
  • Past Chair and Member of the Board of Directors, Community Assets For Education (CAFÉ) Institute, 2007 – present.
    This is an Alberta-based Not-For-Profit organization established to deliver community-based education development programs.
  • Honorary Chairperson, Adopt Afghanistan, 2006-2007.
    I was invited to be the founding Honorary Chair of this Saskatchewan-based independently-organized fundraising initiative with the goal of improving education and healthcare for the people of Afghanistan, with a special emphasis on the children.
  • Member, Advisory Board, Islamic History Month Canada, 2007 – 2009.
    IHMC is an Ottawa based project (Honorary Chair: Senator  Mobina Jaffer) conceived and coordinated by the Canadian Islamic Congress.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • Member, 2010, Selection Committee tasked with hiring a new Superintendent of Education, Western School Board, Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
  • Member of Vestry, 2009 – 2013, St. Peter’s Cathedral, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
  • Church Warden, 1997-1999, St. Peter’s Church, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

OTHER

  • Member, Mentoring Project Steering Committee, Chinook’s Edge School Division, 2000-2001
  • Research Mentor, Ms. Penny Ritson, Carlisle, England (2001)
  • Faculty representative, Invitational Symposium on A Place Called High School, Edmonton, Alberta (1999)

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