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Adwoa K. Buahene

Director
Strategic consultant - Toronto, ON

Amanda Bernard

Director
Director of Indigenous Programs, Laidlaw Foundation - Toronto, ON

Amanda Mayer

Treasurer
Program Director & COO, Lawson Foundation - Cantley, QC

Cameron Miller

Secretary
Consultant - Ottawa, ON

Djaka Blais-Amare

Director
Executive Director, Hogan's Alley Society & Board Co-Chair, Foundation for Black Communities - Vancouver, BC

Ina Gutium

Chair
Vice-President, Talent & Corporate Services, Ontario Trillium Foundation - Toronto, ON

Justin Wiebe

Director
Lead, Innovation and Strategic Growth, Mastercard Foundation - Toronto and rural Saskatchewan

Lara O’Donnell

Director
Executive Director, Weston Family Foundation - Toronto, ON

Lisa Cirillo

Director
Chief Executive Officer, The Law Foundation of Ontario - Toronto, ON

Michelle LeDonne

Director
Executive Director of the Pathy Family Foundation - Montreal, QC

Mritunjay (MJ) Sinha, B.Eng., M.B.A.

Director
MakeWay et Fondation Definity - Toronto, ON

Nadia Duguay

Director
Executive Director, Fondation Béati - Montreal, QC
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Adwoa K. Buahene

Director

Strategic consultant - Toronto, ON

Amanda Bernard

Director

Amanda Bernard, an Honours Bachelor of Business graduate from the University of Guelph Humber, is a member of the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation, the Director of Indigenous Programs at the Laidlaw Foundation, and the Founder of Shawish Market. In her role at the Foundation, Amanda supports Indigenous youth by providing them with opportunities to connect with their land, language, culture, and peers through various projects. 
Before joining the Laidlaw Foundation, Amanda served as the Account Manager responsible for launching the NIHB portal, an online platform that enables Indigenous people to submit their health benefit claims digitally. In her spare time, Amanda started Shawish, a new virtual marketplace exclusively for Indigenous artists to create their own shops and upload their products for free. Amanda currently resides in Toronto, ON.

Amanda Mayer

Treasurer

Program Director & COO, Lawson Foundation - Cantley, QC

Cameron Miller

Secretary

Senior Director, Citizenship Governance & Operations for Corporate Citizenship

Justin Wiebe

Director

Justin is a proud Métis citizen from the prairies who currently splits his time between rural Saskatchewan and Toronto. He is passionate about rethinking philanthropy, youth leadership, and building movements of solidarity across different communities. He currently works at Mastercard Foundation in the EleV program focusing on improving Indigenous youth education and employment outcomes. He formerly worked at the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Justin is also on the board of The Circle on Philanthropy, a WEF Global Shaper, and a co-founder of The Mamawi Project. He holds a Master’s Degree in Planning from the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at UBC, and a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Saskatchewan.

Lara O’Donnell

Director

Dr. Lara O’Donnell is the Executive Director of the Weston Family Foundation, a role she has held since 2020. As Executive Director, Lara is responsible for executing all aspects of the Foundation's operations and strategy, reporting to the Board of Directors. The Weston Family Foundation designs various granting programs to deliver its mandate of supporting the wellbeing of Canadians, and presently donates roughly $60M per year.  

Prior to joining the Foundation, Lara was the Director of Research Partnerships at the Canadian technology scale-up Element AI, where she was responsible for the design and execution of the research partnership strategy.  

Lara has also held various leadership roles within the Canadian research and innovation ecosystem. She was a Senior Director of Research at CIFAR, an organization dedicated to creating transformative knowledge by convening interdisciplinary teams of scholars, and Director of the Accelerate and Elevate programs at Mitacs, and organization aimed at building bridges between academia and industry.  

Lara studied the mechanisms involved in sensing and repairing DNA during her postdoctoral research at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital. She also investigated the processes of cell division during her Ph.D. which she completed at McGill University. She earned her BSc. in Biology from McMaster University. 

Lisa Cirillo

Director

Lisa Cirillo has served as the CEO of The Law Foundation of Ontario since September 2020. Prior to joining the Foundation, Lisa was the Executive Director of Downtown Legal Services, a community-based legal clinic at the University of Toronto Faculty of law for 10 years. Lisa has practiced human rights, education, housing, and family law in a wide variety of social justice organizations including Downtown Legal Services, ARCH Disability Rights Centre, and the Ontario Human Rights Commission. She has served on numerous boards and committees over the years including the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education, the National Association of Women and the Law, Legal Aid Ontario’s Clinic Law Advisory Committee, and the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Community Advisory Group.  

Michelle LeDonne

Director

Michelle LeDonne (she/her) has been the Executive Director of the Pathy Family Foundation (PFF) since July 2023, where she previously served as Program Officer and was responsible for Montreal-based partner organizations and funder collaboratives.  
 
Before joining PFF in 2019, Michelle worked for more than a decade in fundraising, strategy, and program development for a national non-profit and several community-based organizations working in the areas of homelessness relief and prevention, health equity, and youth and 2SLGBTQIA+ empowerment. Originally from Chicago, she holds a Master of Arts from McGill University and currently resides in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal with her son.  

Mritunjay (MJ) Sinha, B.Eng., M.B.A.

Director

do.” — Michael Curtiz

Nadia Duguay

Director

Executive Director of the Béati Foundation since April 2022, Nadia strives daily to contribute to the advancement of more ethical, engaged, and strategic philanthropic practices. Over the course of more than 15 years at Exeko, which she co-founded and co-directed, she worked to harness intellectual and artistic creativity in the service of intellectual and collective emancipation.

Today, she serves on several boards of directors and advisory committees, including FilAction and Dark Matter Labs. Philanthropic approaches grounded in justice, trust-based philanthropy, and horizontality inspire her daily, as she seeks more relevant and coherent pathways to address the complex challenges of our time.