Amy Go
Amy Go is the President of the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice. A social worker by training, she has dedicated her professional career to serving immigrants and seniors, and promoting and advocating for culturally and linguistically appropriate care and health equity for racialized communities. Amy is currently providing consulting services to facilitate organizational strategic development, program planning, development and review as well as anti-racism/anti-oppression organizational change.
Nadia Hasan
Nadia Hasan has a PhD in Political Science from York University. As Chief Operating Officer at the National Council of Canadian Muslims, she leads the organizational development, program management and national operations.
Nadia has a diverse background in teaching, project management and the non-profit sector. Nadia has several years of experience working on policy and programs at Canadian think tanks and NGOs and she has taught university courses in South Asian studies, religion and gender. Her doctoral research focused on Muslim women’s organizations and the practice of Islam in Canada and Pakistan.
Tina Park
Dr. Tina J. Park is a Fellow at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Chief Executive Officer of The Park Group Inc., a boutique consulting firm specializing in global governance and its pressing challenges. An award-winning scholar, her doctoral thesis on the century of bilateral relations between Canada and Korea was directly inspired by her experience of growing up in Toronto. Dr. Park has taught Canadian foreign policy, Asian-Canadian history, and Canadian nationalism at the University of Toronto since 2011. In her capacity as the executive director of the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, she has advised over thirty governments and international organizations on their human rights policies. Dr. Park serves as a Vice President of the NATO Association of Canada.
Dominic Rochon
Dominic Rochon is the Senior Assistant Deputy Minister for the National and Cyber Security Branch at Public Safety Canada. He also serves as the government co-chair of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group.
Prior to joining Public Safety Canada, Dominic was Assistant Deputy Minister, People Management Systems and Processes at the Treasury Board Secretariat. Dominic was also Deputy Chief, Policy and Communications with the Communications Security Establishment, where he was responsible for the organization’s Strategic Policy, Strategic Planning, Strategic Communications and Communications Services. Previously, Dominic served as Acting Director of Operations in the Security and Intelligence Secretariat at the Privy Council Office. Earlier in his career, Dominic spent four years in the Treasury Board Secretariat's International Affairs, Security and Justice Program Sector.
Dominic received his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science with Honors in International Politics from the University of Ottawa. He is married with two children.
Youcef Soufi
Youcef Soufi, PhD, is a Research Associate at the University of Toronto's Institute of Islamic Studies and a former Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on the history of Islamic law, including on the evolution of pre-modern understandings of jihād. His current research project examines the pain and the process of grieving of the Winnipeg Muslim community in the aftermath of the radicalization of three of its members in 2007. Soufi is also a contributor to the forthcoming volume Systemic Islamophobia in Canada, published with the University of Toronto Press.