Team

SI Canada is a remote-first team working at a national level in partnership with innovative organizations across Canada.

Photo by Ian Schneider

Our Team

Amber Krogel

Communications and Engagement Specialist | Toronto, ON

Amber is passionate about helping good ideas succeed through strong storytelling. She brings her experience working across the social impact ecosystem to support a connected, informed, and engaged network of social innovators.

Anjum Chagpar

Innovation Practice Lead | Toronto, ON

As a life-centred designer learning alongside equity-denied communities, Anjum's work centres experimentation and asking what is possible when we understand ourselves and our world differently.

Brittany Goldhawke

Director, Earth Tech and Investor Relations | Vancouver, BC

Brittany Goldhawke is a climate innovation leader supporting high-impact climate technology ventures across Canada. Her work focuses on commercialization, investor readiness, and ecosystem collaboration across climate mitigation, adaptation, and nature-based solutions. She works closely with founders, investors, Indigenous partners, and industry to help scale technologies that deliver meaningful environmental and community impact.

Devon Bond

Operations Manager | Stratford, ON

Devon combines an enthusiastic, people-centered approach with strong operational expertise. With experience in administration, HR, finance, IT and governance, she keeps our remote-first team running smoothly and builds the systems that underpin our national-scale impact.

Gwen Joy

Interim CEO | Toronto, ON

Gwen brings insights from a 20+ year career spanning the non-profit, public, and private sectors, where she's worked alongside community and elected leaders, policymakers, academics, youth, non-profit and corporate leaders to develop organizational capacity to drive social impact and innovation.

Jamil Bhimji

Program Analyst | Vancouver, BC

Jamil is a current Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs student at the University of British Columbia. He brings experience both in Canada and Scotland working with nonprofits, charities, and sustainable social enterprises and has a keen interest in using policy and advocacy to advance the social impact sector.

Safina Allidina

Innovation Practice Lead | Toronto, ON

Safina brings her experience in designing programs and solving complex problems across consulting, public sector, non-profit, and startups. Her career across innovation, social impact, and health has brought her to lead the innovation practice and address systemic issues with SI Canada.

Shikhank Sharma

Sector Lead | Vancouver, BC

Shikhank brings his experience as a facilitator, strategist, and designer across civil society, philanthropy, and academia to build relationships and advance equity-centered and community-led approaches to systems change and social innovation.

Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH)

Andrea Nemtin

CEO, Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH) | Toronto, ON

Andrea’s work connects social innovation practitioners to each other, opportunities and resources to create the change required to put people and planet first.

Anusha Subramannian

Research and Operations Associate | Vancouver, BC

Anusha brings over seven years of experience in financial planning, business analysis, and operations. She combines research, stakeholder engagement, and analytical thinking to develop practical strategies, improve processes, and drive meaningful impact.

Dina Graser

National Director, Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH) | Toronto, ON

Dina has 30+ years of experience in the public, private and nonprofit sectors in a career spanning the arts, housing, transportation and engagement. She enjoys connecting people and communities to build consensus and make progress on complex problems.

Hamza Ansari

Head of Lending, Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH) | Mississauga, ON

Hamza is an institutional real estate investment professional with nearly a decade of experience across acquisitions, asset management, and capital markets. His work spans financial underwriting, debt structuring, and JV partnerships across multifamily, seniors housing, and mixed-use platforms.

John Dynes

Chief Investment Officer, Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH) | Toronto, ON

John brings nearly 20 years of experience bridging finance discipline with social impact. His background spans portfolio management, management consulting, and capital markets, as well as various governance roles in the social housing sector.

Board Members

Amanuel Melles

Director, Network for the Advancement of Black Communities (York University) and Principal of Aman Consulting

Ben Weinlick (Chair of the Board)

Executive Director, Skills Society and founder of Think Jar Collective and Action Lab

Jonathan Yu (Treasurer)

Chief Financial Officer for Fionic Canada Ltd.

Marilyn Struthers

Facilitator, Coach and Organizational Development Consultant

Michael Seberich

Managing Director, Wider Sense

Tim Draimin

Senior Fellow, Community Foundations of Canada