Annual General Meeting 2026

ONTARIO-AT-LARGE

Stephanie’s life’s work has had three primary threads: research, education and advocacy. She has pursued this vocation in front line social service work (as residence director of a local women’s housing unit), in policy work (in social housing policy for regional government and in socio-economic policy work for CPJ) and as an educator, as professor in the School of Social Work at McMaster University. She has leadership experience in the non-profit sector (as a founding board member of a cooperative housing project and as chair of the McMaster Community Poverty Initiative) and in the Christian community (as a member of the Committee for Contact with the Government, now the Centre for Public Dialogue, and as a deacon and board member in her local church). She lives in the Niagara Region with her husband, Steve. They have two daughters and three grandchildren. Stephanie loves photography and birding.

BRITISH COLUMBIA / YUKON TERRITORY

Professionally, Karen has worked as a dietitian in Vancouver for over 20 years. She studied dietetics at UBC, practiced for several years, then returned to school for a master’s degree in healthcare leadership from Royal Roads University, learning about collaboration and engagement with people from diverse healthcare disciplines. She currently works at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, in a new program called Road to Recovery, where she is inspired by the ways that good food fosters connections and recovery from substance use disorders. She co-chairs the Dietitians of Canada Household Food Insecurity Network. Between pandemic recovery, rising food costs, extreme weather events, and unprecedented rates of substance use disorder (SUD), it has been a particularly interesting time for her to be looking at how vulnerable people access food. She is part of a group called The Bell, Diverse Christian Voices in Vancouver, which nudges her to articulate what she is learning about living faithfully.
Personally, Karen has made her home in East Vancouver, not far from where she grew up in Abbotsford, BC. She is part of a church called Reality, which she really values, as she has found a group of people who share her values around faith, a pastor who shares her sense of humour and taste in books, and she can walk to church, feeling rooted in her neighbourhood.

ONTARIO-AT-LARGE

Sarah was born and raised in Kitchener-Waterloo and now resides in Burlington, Ontario; the land and territories of the Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee, Mississaugas of the Credit, the Erie, Neutral and Huron -Wendat Peoples. She uses she/her pronouns and is of European-settler decent. She completed her degree in International Development Studies at the University of Guelph in 2011, and went on to work for a number of non-profits both locally and abroad including Frontier College, Alliance for Arab Women, WE Org (formerly ME to WE) and AIESEC Canada. For the last 10+ years, she has worked full-time for the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton managing the office of Justice and Peace. Within this role Sarah manages education, program development, community engagement and partnerships for parishes, schoolboards, community groups, clergy and laity. She has been a member of the Social Affairs Commission for the last 10 years, which advises the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario on important social issues impacting our communities. She is part of the steering committee for the Inter-faith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC), the advisory committee for Justice Peace Integrity of Creation working group (JPIC) and the Collaborative Network to End Exploitation (CNEE). Sarah is currently in her final year of my Masters program in Capacity Development and Extension at the University of Guelph. Her thesis project looks at the impacts of climate change on front line agencies and social services in southwestern Ontario.

EASTERN CANADA

Sarah is a fundraising leader and advocate for social justice with over 15 years of experience in the non-profit sector. She currently serves as the National Director of Philanthropy at L’Arche Canada, a national organization that works alongside people with intellectual disabilities to build more inclusive communities. Sarah holds a CFRE (Certified Fundraising Executive) designation and a degree in International Development from Saint Francis Xavier University, where her involvement with L’Arche Antigonish sparked her lifelong commitment to inclusion. Her career has included roles with Public Outreach, CECI, and Mission Inclusion. Originally from New Brunswick, Sarah is known for her collaborative leadership style, faith-rooted values, and passion for building a more just and compassionate society.

CANADA-AT-LARGE

Jonathan is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. He has served as Associate Secretary (Intercultural Leadership; Justice and Peace) of The Canadian Council of Churches, Director of the Canadian Churches Forum for Global Ministries, as Lutheran Campus Chaplain at Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, and as pastor to a congregation in Waterloo, Ontario. His career also has included breaks for parenting and running a Central American restaurant. He has a Doctorate from the Toronto School of Theology exploring Canadian contexts, Interculturality, decolonization, diversity and inclusion, cultural studies, missiology, Appreciative Inquiry and pedagogy. He has lived in Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Kitchener (Ontario), El Salvador, Cleveland (Ohio), Albuquerque (New Mexico), and Scarborough (Ontario). Outside of work, his interests include community activism and organizing, cycling and cycling advocacy, camping, canoeing and amateur astronomy. His ancestors were Lutheran Missionaries to the USA in the 1800s.

MANITOBA / SASKATCHEWAN / NUNAVUT

Having grown up on a cattle ranch in western Manitoba, Ryan Turnbull has a deep interest in the intersection of theology, decolonization, ecology, place, and friendship. He holds a BA and MA in Theology from Providence University College and Theological Seminary and just completed the defense of his PhD at the University of Birmingham. Ryan is currently a Visiting Fellow at St John’s College and serves as the Diocesan Discipleship Developer in the Diocese of Rupert’s Land. See more at ryankturnbull.com.

ONTARIO-AT-LARGE

Kevin has worked at the Christian School Foundation as the Director of Planned Gifts and Investments since 2022. Prior to this role, he worked 14 years as a partner in an accounting firm in rural Southern Ontario. He then returned to school to earn a Master of Divinity and served for 15 years as a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church, where he continued to serve churches through preaching. He currently lives in Exeter with his wife, Mechele, who is an outreach worker on the streets in London, ON. Kevin enjoys spending time and playing games with his 4 children, their partners and finding much laughter in his joy-filled grandchildren.