Income Security 14 May 2011
Michelynn Laflèche, Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance, Program Director: Greater Toronto Summit 2011
Michelynn Laflèche has studied and worked on social justice issues relating to race and gender — first in Canada, then Germany and, the United Kingdom and then back to Canada. She obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa, her Masters degree at the University of Toronto and undertook her postgraduate studies jointly at Toronto and Karls Ruprecht University in Heidelberg (Germany). Her research focused on gender and racial discrimination in vocational education in Canada and Germany.
Michelynn worked as a research consultant on equalities and social justice for numerous organisations and was also a teacher of English as a Second Language and a university lecturer. She joined the Runnymede Trust in 1997 and was appointed a Director in 2001. Upon her return to Canada, she became a Program Director for Civic Action and played an important role in the Greater Toronto Summit this year.
