As an ADHD and Autistic individual with over 10 years of learning design experience and a lifetime of lived experience, Crystal brings a unique perspective on how neuroinclusion impacts opportunities to thrive in workplace and learning environments.

She is currently leading a team of experts in the fields of psychological health and safety, diversity and inclusion, neurodiversity and learning design through her design, development and consulting practice to establish neuroinclusive universal design standards and training.
She believes in a society where all individuals have equitable opportunity to actualize their potential. Her mission is to empower people potential by design with innovative and inclusive learning solutions.

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David Coderre is a co-founder and the chief data analyst for River Analytics and Automation and the President, Computer Assisted Analysis Techniques and Solutions (CAATS). He is an expert in the development and use data analytics for fraud risk assessment, testing of internal controls, and continuous monitoring. He has 35+ years of experience using analytics to address financial and internal audit requirements.

Dr. Wendy Cukier is the Diversity Institute Founder, Academic Director of the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub and Research Lead of the Future Skills Centre. The Diversity Institute is one of the ecosystem partners supporting the 50-30 Challenge in advancing gender parity and increased diversity on boards and/or in senior management. She is the co-author of the bestseller, Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Java to Jurassic Park and former VP of Research and Innovation. The Diversity Institute has more than 130 research staff, 100 research associates from around the world, 200 industry partners and focuses on dimensions of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, future skills, and entrepreneurship and innovation with hubs across the country. Harnessing the power of innovation, it promotes the advancement of underrepresented groups. Wendy has been recognized with the Harry Jerome Diversity Award, the Bob Marley Award, the Metropolis Research Award, the CATA Alliance, Sara Kirke Award for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and 100 Most Powerful Women by WXN. She has been named a YWCA Woman of Distinction and one of the International Women’s Forum 2020 Women Who Make a Difference, a Woman of Influence and one of the “100 Alumni who shaped the Century” by the University of Toronto. Wendy holds a PhD, an MBA, an MA, and honorary doctorates from Laval and Concordia.

Geoff Dubrow is Founder/Principal Consultant at Nexus PFM Consulting Inc., based in Moncton, New Brunswick. With a strong commitment to fostering a more equitable world, Geoff leverages over twenty years of public financial management (PFM) expertise to impactfully implement gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) in Canada and around the world. In the realm of gender equality, Geoff has chaired conferences and workshops on Gender- Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) and gender-responsive budgeting, showcasing his commitment to creating awareness and driving change in this critical area. This included a long-term consulting engagement with the federal Department of Women and Gender Equality Canada, where he provided ongoing strategic advice and technical support related to the rollout of GBA Plus across the Government of Canada. Having worked in over fifty countries around the world, Geoff’s impact extends to international projects, where he has played a key role in strengthening GRB. Notably, he recently conducted GRB assessments for the World Bank in Laos and UN Women in Kosovo. His work in Laos involves developing and implementing a roadmap for implementing GRB within the Government of Laos. In Kosovo Geoff conducted a feasibility assessment for UN Women on incorporating GRB into Kosovo’s public financial management operations. Locally, Geoff’s commitment to gender equality is further evident in his involvement in his home province of New Brunswick, where Geoff recently co- designed and facilitated GBA Plus workshosp for YWCA Moncton, Brunswick Credit Union, and NB Association of Community Based Development Corporations. As a published author, Geoff has contributed significantly to the field, co-authoring the “Action Kit on Parliament’s Role in Gender-Responsive Budgeting” and various policy briefs on critical topics related to fiscal management, parliamentary oversight, and gender-responsive policies. Geoff is fluent in English and French and has three children aged 21, 19 and 9.

Proud civil servant with nearly 30 years’ experience working in diverse economic and social public policy fields. Over the past decade, Denise has led on several horizontal and whole-of-government strategies, and in 2019 became the Government of Canada lead for Gender-based Analysis Plus – or – GBA Plus. Denise is a bold advocate for GBA Plus because of the valuable insights it generates for better and more responsive government programs and policies. When public policy practitioners hone their GBA Plus competency, they have a powerful tool at their disposal to change cultures and tackle discrimination and inequality. With capacity for robust and intersectional GBA Plus, across the Government of Canada, different orders of government and across diverse sectors of society, people can effect change within their individual context and collectively to dismantle the systems and structures that create/perpetuate inequalities.

Legally trained advocate for social justice and human rights, Karine-Myrgianie Jean-François worked in the community sector in feminist organizations for over 10 years including the Disabled Women’s Network of Canada before joining the City of Montréal as a Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) Planning Advisor. Born, raised and still living in Tiohtià:ke (colonially known as Montréal), this Black queer woman supports minoritized communities in their liberation.

Dr Suzette Mitchell is a Gender, Disability, and Intersectionality expert with a PhD in women’s studies. She is a private consultant and an Associate with Gender at Work. Her work over the past 30 years has applied a gender and intersectionality lens in programming and policy development throughout the Asia Pacific region. She has most recently developed a new groundbreaking resource for the Asian Development Bank-Gender Equality and Disability Inclusion: Guidelines to Address the Specific Needs of Women and Girls with Disabilities. The guidelines outline issues and barriers with suggested entry points and opportunities in programming to address the needs, concerns, and empowerment of women and girls with disability in the areas of water, urban development, transport, education, health, and social protection.

Michelle Parkouda is the Manager, Research at the Standards Council of Canada (SCC).  She is responsible for leading research to demonstrate the economic and social value of standardization.  She is also the Chair of the Team of Specialists on Gender-Responsive Standards at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.  At the UNECE, she led the development of guidelines on how to develop gender-responsive standards.  Michelle has published research on the topics of gender, diversity, and trade.  She has a PhD in Social Psychology from McGill University.

Pauline Tuitoek is the Assistant Director at the Centre for Gender, diversity and inclusion statistics (statcan.gc.ca), Statistics Canada where she leads a team of subject matter experts in developing research and analytical products on Gender research, GBA Plus and, immigration and ethnocultural statistics providing insights on gender, diversity, and inclusion in Canada. She is the Gender Based Analysis Plus Champion for Statistics Canada as well as the co-Chair of Statistics Canada’s Immigration and Ethnocultural Statistics Advisory Committee.

Barbara Ward-Burkitt, Wahiyow Cawapata Scoo, is a member of the Fort McKay First Nation and is currently the Executive Director of the Prince George Native Friendship Centre. She has been actively connected in many capacities in the Friendship Centre movement since 1972. In the past she was a Faculty Staff Mentor in Field Programs for northern BC at Simon Fraser University and was a Child Care Worker with Indigenous students and with Special Needs students for the Quesnel School District. Active in her community, Ms. Ward-Burkitt has been the President of Prince George Nechako Aboriginal Employment and Training Association for many years, and also sits on many local, regional and provincial working groups and committees. She completed her Masters of Education degree from Simon Fraser University and her First Nations Design and Technology course from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Ms. Ward-Burkitt also holds her Provincial Instructor’s Diploma from the Vancouver Community College, her Native Adult Instructor’s Diploma from the B.C. Ministry of Education, Skills and Training and is a certified True Colors facilitator. Ms. Ward-Burkitt and her husband Jim have been proudly raising their five grandchildren since 2003. Ms. Ward-Burkitt was invested into the Order of British Columbia in 2010.