Sheila is the inaugural Director of the Office of I-IDEAS. She brings over twenty years of experience as an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) leader and specialist in federal and municipal governments.
She is executive director of a sole proprietorship DEVI (Diverse, Equitable, Vital, and Innovative) Consultation and Strategies, providing EDI advice to national and provincial cultural agencies. Sheila has a Master of Fine Arts from University of British Columbia and is a candidate for an LLM at Osgoode Law School, York University.
Prior to joining CHEO, Sheila served as the Senior Strategic Advisor, Equity, at the Canada Council for the Arts where she managed the Equity Office for ten years. She led the development of ground-breaking policies and million-dollar targeted funding programs that greatly contributed to the diversification of Canada’s cultural landscape. More recently she worked at the City of Ottawa leading organizational wide equity initiatives including data driven strategic hiring processes towards achieving the City’s workforce demographic targets.
Sheila is an award-winning author and videographer whose work focuses on stories from marginalized perspectives. She has presented extensively on equitable practices and diverse participation in government, unions, universities, and not-for-profit sectors.
Sheila’s mandate is to implement recommendations from the Equity Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigeneity (EDII) Task Force’s Roadmap for Change and further considerations and to build the Office of I-IDEAS.
Sheila brings a feminist, queer and racialized perspective to her work as she strives to influence and motivates cross-sectoral teams to collaborate, excel and achieve equity and diversity goals towards greater social justice
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