Overview

Board of Directors

Jer's Vision's Board of Directors is made up of volunteers who serve as the main operating body of the organization. They are responsible for managing programs, services, fundraising, and events. The board's members include:

Calla Barnett
Calla Barnett is a recent graduate of the University of Ottawa. She currently works as an executive assistant for the Foundation for the Study of Processes of Government in Canada, a youth leadership charity. Calla also maintains a translation business of her own. In the past, she has been involved with a variety of advocacy and fundraising initiatives. She hopes to go abroad to help with human rights issues in developing countries..

Anita Dolman
Anita Dolman is an Ottawa-based writer, editor and poet with a B.A. in Anthropology and more than seven years of communications experience. She was the founding managing editor of Poetics.ca and is the author of the chapbook Scalpel, tea and shot glass (Ottawa: above/ground press, 2004). Her poetry and short fiction have been published in various journals and magazines throughout North America, and she is currently working on her first full-length manuscript of poetry.

Stephanie Gray
Stephanie Gray is a recent graduate of the Film Studies program at Carleton University, where she also took studies in French and Psychology. She has volunteered in diverse environments, and her past experiences have included canvassing for the Ontario March of Dimes, fostering animals for the Dryden Humane Society, and assisting with the daily functions of Fairbairn House Inc. in Ottawa. She is also the designer and maintainer of jersvision.org. Although she is currently employed as a web developer, her true passion is community work and her goal is to become a police officer.

Jean-Frédéric Hübsch
Jean-Frédéric (J-F) Hübsch is a professional translator with an affinity for social justice issues. He holds an Honours B.A. in Translation and English Literature and a M.A. in Translation, both from the University of Ottawa. As an employee of the Government of Canada, he ensures the promotion of national labour market development and employment accessibility to official language minority communities through the Job Bank Translation project at Service Canada. While a student at the University of Ottawa, J-F committed himself to fighting for the best interest of students as Vice President of Finance of the Students’ Association of the Faculty of Arts, as well as a member of the Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Studies Committee and the University of Ottawa Senate Committee for the Study of Individual Cases. He feels proud and privileged to be working with CYDI/Jer’s Vision.

Erin Lux
Erin Lux is an office worker in downtown Ottawa. Interested in political, environmental, and human rights issues from a young age, Erin spends most of her free time scouring the news. An enjoyer of travel, Erin has spent time in several states and a year in Scotland, all of which has helped her develop an understanding of world issues and human rights struggles.

Amy Oakley
Amy Oakley grew up in Pembroke and has been living in Ottawa since August 2002. She has a two year diploma from the Tourism and Travel program at Algonquin College and has volunteered for several different festivals and events. She enjoys writing in many forms and aspires to travel overseas in the future.