Great IDEA for new Chamber committee
As a positive step toward being the region’s most diverse and influential business association, The Chamber launched a new committee this year. Initially known as the Committee for the Advancement of Diversity and Inclusion, one of its first decisions was to change the committee name to the Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Advancement (IDEA) Committee.
The committee’s mission is to foster diversity and inclusion and break through biases to achieve equity, which will only strengthen our business and community connections.
The committee’s mission is to foster diversity and inclusion and break through biases to achieve equity, which will only strengthen our business and community connections.
- Chair: Richard Michaels, President, MACCRIM Solutions
- Vice Chair: James Gatsi, CEO, CL Web Developers Inc.
- Ann Squires Ferguson, CEO, Western Design+Build
- Jessica Stigant, Associate Director of Government Relations and Partnership, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC)
- Paulina Grainger, Manager of Arts, Equity and Community Engagement, Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria
- Pedro Márquez, Vice President Global, Marketing and Business Development, Royal Roads University
- Rudy Tomazic, Owner, Friends of Dorothy
- Wendy Cox, Executive Director, Disability Resource Centre
- Casey Edmunds, Executive Director, La Société francophone de Victoria
