Board of Directors
adam morrison
Adam Morrison (he/him) is a public policy professional with more than a dozen years of leadership experience in health care, social services, Indigenous relations, and post-secondary education administration. His current role as the Director of Policy and Planning at Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario is focused on implementing integrated care models and co-creating policy with clinicians and older adults that improves the quality of health and social care for seniors in Ontario. Adam manages a consulting practice as well, supporting clients in the health care and arts sectors with strategy and engagement since leaving the Ontario Public Service in late 2019.
Doing a stint dishing advice as an agony uncle for a friend’s lifestyle and culture blog helped him realize his lifelong passions for building community and listening to other people’s stories. Adam approaches sexual health advocacy and equitable access to health care with the same curiosity, commitment, and humility. He got his feet wet as a sexual health educator during his undergraduate years at the Sexual Health Resource Centre in Kingston, Ontario. Adam has a Master’s degree in Social Policy and Gender from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
emile wickham
Emile Wickham is a community relations liaison whose strength in frontline community services support has been demonstrated in a cross sector of environments: from community hubs and government services, to cultural and artistic platforms.
He has held board positions with York University and the Black Creek Community Health Centre with specific oversight in the areas of community relations, finance, land development, and strategic planning. Emile possesses a wealth of experience in student services, community engagement and political affairs via assignments with York University, Artscape, and the Ontario Legislature respectively. An academic training in Sociology has provided an acute understanding of the inequity present in social structures and institutions, and the role civil society plays in addressing the impact of such inequity on communities and the individual. Accordingly, his work within the Regent Park and Jane and Finch communities has been geared towards community empowerment.
Emile’s interest in the Planned Parenthood organization stems from his advocacy towards sexual and mental health through an anti-colonialist and anti-oppressive lens.
kamla sudama
Kamla has worked in public service for over a decade working in youth equity, affordable housing, and community development. She is passionate about building a more equitable and inclusive city for diverse communities.
Kamla has a Masters Degree in Social Work from Toronto Metropolitan University.
lee hodge
Lee Hodge has been working in the fields of harm reduction and HIV since the 90’s.
As a registered nurse, he has a clinical leadership background working with youth,
people who use drugs, sex worker communities, and in abortion care. Originally from
the prairies, Lee holds a master of public health degree, and has 15 years of
experience in community-based research initiatives, particularly in the areas of
access to HIV testing, as well as gender-based violence. He has led initiatives to
increase access to healthcare for trans folks in both Canada and Aotearoa/NZ.
Holding senior roles at health boards, universities & hospitals and NGO’s, he has
developed innovative, creative teams and programs to address significant challenges
in health equity through a social justice lens. He is currently the director of strategic
initiatives at a small Toronto hospital serving those most impacted by structural health
disparities. Lee recently had the good luck to be a part of the inaugural cohort of the
Positive Deviant fellowship in complexity leadership, and is grateful to be the parent
of an incredible teen.
mohini datta-ray (executive director)
Since 2015, Mohini served as the Executive Director of North York Women’s Shelter, one of Toronto’s oldest shelters for survivors of gender-based violence. Fluently bilingual in Bengali and English, Mohini holds a BA and MA from McGill University. Her past roles include Director, Provincial Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative; Toronto Women and HIV/AIDS Coordinator at the AIDS Committee of Toronto; and Prevention Education Coordinator at the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention.
As Executive Director, Mohini secured over $21 million in funding to completely rebuild NYWS to fulfil a paradigm-setting, beautiful trauma-informed design that is trans-inclusive, accessible, sex-positive, supports harm reduction, is child and youth centred and welcomes pets. The new space also includes a trauma-informed primary care clinic and space for community programs delivered by values-aligned partner agencies.
Mohini’s past work has seen her lead HIV community development, prevention education, youth-focused sex education and healthy relationship projects with a number of communities impacted by racism and poverty in Toronto and Ontario. Driven by social justice, Mohini believes that leadership means being transparently values-driven, speaking truth to power and building alliances across movements in order to become a conduit for change, justice and the shifting of power.
She will be joining PPT as Executive Director effective July 2021.
nakia lee-foon
Dr. Nakia Lee-Foon holds a PhD in the Social and Behavioural Health Sciences stream from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto. Her award- winning doctoral research explored the state of young, self-identified African, Caribbean and Black gay and other young men who have sex with men’s sexual health literacy in Toronto, Ontario. Nakia completed her Master of Health Sciences with specialization in Community Health from Ontario Tech University. Her master’s thesis explored the state of Black-Canadian parent-youth sexual health communication in Toronto. She has also conducted work focused on health equity, mental health in Black communities and increasing breast and cervical cancer awareness among self-identified Black women
olga bezrokov
Olga is a Portfolio Manager with Russell Investments, with over a decade of experience in the investment industry. In her current role, she focuses on providing solutions dedicated to improving the financial security of individuals and institutions. In addition to her investment responsibilities, she is involved in work around sustainability, engagement, diversity and inclusion efforts, and associate resource groups at Russell Investments.
Previously, Olga served on the Board of Newcomer Women’s Services of Toronto and is passionate about advocating for diverse communities. She is committed to advancing intersectional equity and is excited to learn from and support other members of the Board in moving towards PPT’s vision of sexual and reproductive choice, freedom and possibilities.
patrick roncal
Patrick Roncal (he/him) is a mathematician whose public service career over the last decade has
spanned portfolios in labour relations, equity, justice and public safety. His experience includes
the City of Toronto’s Data for Equity Strategy, the Ministry of Labour’s COVID-19 occupational
health and safety data response and the Ministry of Attorney General’s Bail Action Plan. Patrick
holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and the Certified Human
Resources Professional designation.
Patrick is an active community member and has proudly served in multiple non-for-profit and
community leadership roles, including as a Board member for the Asian Community AIDS Service and
Community Advisory member for the Toronto Police Service’s Race-Based Data Collection Strategy.
He has also been involved in sexual health leadership programs through ACT Toronto and the
University of Toronto/Community Based Research Centre (CBRC). Patrick is passionate about
improving outcomes regarding health equity, sexual education and youth engagement
pascale diverlus
Pascale Diverlus is born of a lineage of Haitian freedom fighters. She is an award-winning
community organizer, storyteller, communications specialist, digital strategist, and
educator.
Pascale’s practice is rooted in reimagining, redefining, and rebuilding a different, better
world— liberation through all methods. As an educator, she supports organizations,
agencies, and businesses to develop and adopt organizational transformation rooted in
anti-oppressive frameworks. She creates equity-based assessments, conducts internal
reviews, and assists in the implementation of practices, policies and protocols centred on
equity and human rights practices.
Pascale sits on the advisory board of many social justice organizations including Adornment
Stories, Resource Movement, and Across Boundaries. Pascale is the recipient of the J.S
Woodsworth Human Rights Award, the Viola Desmond Award and the Evelyn Myrie Political
Action Award
tom gleason
Tom currently serves as Chief of Staff to a Toronto City Councillor, working to provide effective representation to over 120,000 Torontonians. In this role, he provides advice to the Councillor on strategic planning, communications, public policy, urban planning, and community development, while managing the human resources of the office. Tom has extensive experience in advocacy, government relations, youth engagement, and community governance.
Previously, Tom served as Executive Director of the Toronto Youth Cabinet from 2015 to 2017, during which time the organization saw a marked increase in youth engagement and such achievements as the inclusion of financial literacy in the Ontario high school curriculum and the creation of a City of Toronto Youth Week. As a Studio [Y] Fellow at MaRS Discovery District, Tom was recognized as one of the top young leaders in Ontario and worked to develop solutions to make municipal engagement processes more youth-friendly and co-founded CreateSpaceTO, an initiative that taught coding skills to youth facing barriers in the St. James Town neighbourhood.
Tom has served in advisory roles with YouthREX, the Wellesley Institute, and Toronto Youth Cabinet.
tyler morden
Tyler has a background in program development, project management, stakeholder relations and collaborative service delivery in the social services and community health sector. He holds a BA in Political Science, a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Health Administration and has a particular interest in sexual health, mental health and harm reduction. He approaches his work through a social determinants of health and health equity lens and is committed to improving access to education, support and care for everyone. Tyler has worked in a direct support role with 2SLGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness, as a program manager overseeing health programs for guys into guys, and as a review committee member with Toronto Public Health’s Toronto Urban Health
Fund (TUHF). He currently works for a biopharmaceutical company managing community affairs in HIV, where he supports community-based organizations and health care providers in developing innovative projects to address barriers to care for people living with HIV.