PROFILES OF NOMINEES TO THE BOARD 2020
Susan Docherty-Skippen	 	Hamilton
Susan is a doctoral candidate and instructor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University. She has a master’s degree in administration and leadership in education, and bachelor degrees in adult education, clinical research, and biochemistry. Susan has over twenty years of work experience in the area of education, patient advocacy, health research, and pharmaceutical quality compliance. She has served as a volunteer Board Member for the Hamilton Literacy Council (a community-based organization that provides basic language and mathematics literacy training for English speaking adults) and L’Arche Hamilton (a community home for adults with intellectual and physical disabilities). Susan was appointed, through the Lieutenant Governor’s Office, to the College Council of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario where she served on the Patient Relations, Quality Assurance, Fitness to Practice, Discipline, and Inquiries and Complaints Committees.  
Susan is passionate about developing new ways to teach and assess learning in underrepresented populations. She has studied the complex process of professional identity formation set against the backdrop of stigma, discrimination, and marginalization in the presence of mental illness. She has published and presented her work in peer-reviewed journals and at international conferences. She has also published articles about the ethical possibilities of student success within the context of Indigenous Knowledge and 21st-century education leadership theory and practice. In her doctoral work, Susan is researching ways that self-care is textualized and enacted in professional care education programs that require regulatory licensing (e.g., nursing, medicine, and teaching), where issues of capacity for self-assessment are linked to the professional role.
Harjot Kaur Dosanjh		Toronto 
Harjot Kaur Dosanjh has a passion for advocating for the rights of vulnerable communities and protecting the environment. She is the first lawyer in her family and currently serves as counsel with the OPGT where she advocates for incapable adults primarily in family law and civil matters. Her past experiences include the Disability Law Intensive with ARCH, where she worked on client advocacy, public legal education and law reform; as an advocate with the Fair Change Pro Bono Legal Clinic advocating for street-involved individuals; and as a volunteer on the Distress Line at the Canadian Mental Health Association. She is also an organizer and volunteer with the Sikh Family Helpline which is a peer-to-peer helpline servicing the Sikh community in Canada in Punjabi and English to connect the community with linguistically and culturally appropriate resources. Harjot’s experiences have taken her across Canada and the world, including international development work in Cambodia with the Legal Aid of Cambodia, and an arctic expedition with the Canada C3 journey with a focus on the environment, reconciliation, diversity and inclusion and youth engagement. These experiences have strengthened Harjot’s commitment to advocating for marginalized communities and working towards an inclusive society.    

Jennifer Hiseller		Toronto
Jennifer is an accessibility specialist with a background in the built environment, where she leads large-portfolio audit projects and provides training on the requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. She is currently enrolled in the Accessible Media Production program at Mohawk College. 
Other experience with accessibility, disability, and inclusion comes from her education as an Orthotic and Prosthetic technician, work as a custom seating technician for high technology wheelchairs, and volunteer involvement with various organizations, primarily with #a11yTO (or Accessibility Toronto). Jenny also wears a prosthesis and always has. This lived experience brings insight and depth to her professional and volunteer work.
Ashfaq (Kash) Husain	London
Kash, as he is known by most of his colleagues, is a graduate of Mount Allison University and Dalhousie University, where he obtained a B. Eng. in Electrical Engineering.  Upon graduation, Kash worked as a Consulting Engineer designing Electrical Power and Distribution Systems for large industrial plants.  These would include: Oil Refineries, Pulp and Paper Mills, Waste Water Treatment Plants, Airports, Dockyards, to name a few.
All that changed on March 31, 2000, when Kash left his employment because he was experiencing severe vision loss.  Kash had been diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative condition of the retina.   They say that when one door closes another one opens.
In his case the door was labeled “Volunteerism”, something Kash was familiar with.  He could now spend more of his time sharing his knowledge and experience with others.  He volunteers with the City of London, sitting on DIAAC and the Accessibility Advisory Committee – where he was their inaugural Chair (2001-2005).  He also volunteers with the CNIB, FFB (Foundation Fighting Blindness), the UWO School of Occupational Therapy and the IEEE.
Kash strongly believes that sharing his knowledge, experiences and collaborating with others can build an inclusive and welcoming community for all.
Kash has a long history of volunteerism in London, Ontario including: Diversity, Inclusion and Anti Oppression Advisory Committee.  Member representing persons with disabilities; Accessibility Advisory Committee, Inaugural Chair;, Community, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy Committee, Co-Chair of the City wide initiative to insure the City of London is a welcoming and inclusive community for all of its citizens.  This will also include addressing the issues raised by the “Black Lives Matter”, London movement;  Fighting Blindness Canada; Independent Living Centre London and Area; CNIB Foundation; Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: (IEEE).
Kash received the following award:  2012 – Queen Elizabeth 11 Diamond Jubilee Medal; 2011 – June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism in Ontario;  2011 – Wally S Read Award for Volunteerism with IEEE Canada. 

Jason Mitschele		Toronto
Jason Mitschele has been practicing law as a Federal Prosecutor since 2003 for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada. His practice involves the prosecution of firearms and narcotics offences.  He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
He is a proud advocate for the promotion of equality for persons with disabilities and contributes to the following organizations as:
•	National Advisor for Persons with Disabilities for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada
•	Member, Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee
•	Director for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind Foundation (CNIB) - Ontario and Quebec Advisory Board
•	Adjunct Professor in Training, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Trial Advocacy Program 
•	Member of the National Equity and Diversity Committee, Public Prosecution Service of Canada 
•	Board member, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Alumni Advisory Board
•	Action Canada Fellow for 2006-2007 where he was selected as one of 15 young Canadians  from across Canada to work on a public policy project regarding the promotion of clean technologies in Canada
He is currently working with his colleague Ira Glasner on multiple cases involving the dark web in relation to the selling of controlled substances over the dark web in exchange for bit coin.  Jason and Ira will also be working with the new Coordinated Ciber Centre of the Toronto Police Service in one of their first bit coin seizures.   
Jason and Ira have also authored a paper on bit coin prosecutions to be published in an up-coming addition of Criminal Law Quarterly.
Roxanne Mykitiuk		Toronto
Roxanne Mykitiuk is a Full Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she engages in research and teaching in the areas of Disability Law, Health Law, Bioethics and Family Law. She is the founder and Director of the Disability Law Intensive clinical program and the Director of Osgoode’s part-time LLM program specializing in Health Law.  Roxanne is also the Faculty Co-Chair of Enable York and is a member of the core faculty in the graduate program in Critical Disability Studies at York University. She was the Chair of York University’s Senate from 2013-2015. 
Roxanne is nationally and internationally recognized for her work in disability law and the regulation of reproductive and genetic technologies and reproductive health more generally.  She was Senior Legal Researcher for the Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies; a member of the Ontario, Advisory Committee on Genetics; a member of the Ethics Committee of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada; scholar in residence at the Law Commission of Ontario working on the Disability and Law Project. She has been consulted by a range of actors in policy making and litigation contexts and provided expert opinions related to her areas of expertise.
She is passionate about using her platforms as an educator, researcher, writer and advocate to work collaboratively for disability justice and disability rights. 
Claudette Paul		Timmins
Claudette has been on other boards for at least 5 years total. She has lived experience living on reserve for 11 years and work experience on reserve for 15 years. On and off reserve, she has been an advocate for marginalized indigenous people including those with disabilities in such roles as a National Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Program worker (addictions worker), an Early Childhood Educator, a Family Support worker, an Aboriginal Best Start Service Connector, and her current role as an Indigenous Student Advisor.  She continues to advocate for those that need her to be their voice.  
Paul Scotland		Toronto	
Paul was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario with the neuro tube birth defect, Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus.  He hold an Honours, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from York University and graduated from the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. 
He has an interest in promoting and growing equality seeking groups and wants to see the disabled community continue to visibly advocate for breaking down barriers that impede accessibility to a society and environment responsive to equity, diversity and inclusion everywhere!  
He is a member of the Criminal Lawyers Association, Diversity Committee; Criminal Lawyers Association, Abilities Discussion Group; and, the City of Richmond Hill, Accessibility Committee. 
Wade Poziomka		Hamilton 
Wade practices human rights law at Ross & McBride LLP in Hamilton, Ontario. Prior to practice Wade obtained his juris doctor degree from the University of Toronto. During law school Wade interned with the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, working directly with Guido Raimondi (currently Judge and Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights). Prior to articling with Ross & McBride LLP, Wade worked for Justice Robert Sharpe of the Ontario Court of Appeal. In 2013, Wade completed his LL.M. at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he placed within the top three students in his program. While studying at Cornell, Wade traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina as part of a four-member fact-finding team to explore the causes, conditions and consequences of female imprisonment in the federal prison system. This study resulted in an extensive report which was presented in collaboration with the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women.
Wade is an applicant-side representative on the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario’s Practice Advisory Committee, and sits on the Board of Directors of the United Way of Burlington and Greater Hamilton, Grimsby Affordable Housing Partnership and Volunteer Hamilton. Wade also volunteers as an officer on the Ontario Bar Association’s Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section Executive.

Michelle Woolfrey		Toronto
Michelle is a first year law student in the extended time program at Osgoode Law at York University. Michelle's  Michelle has her Bachelor of Arts Degree Honours from Ryerson University, along with a minor in Public Policy and Political Science. Michelle has over 15 years of work and lived experience in the areas of disability, advocacy, and community based organizing. Michelle has served as an ambassador for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides. Currently Michelle sits on the executive board as Treasurer for the National Education Association of Disabled Students as well as filling her current role as a Director on the ARCH Board of Directors. At school Michelle is an active member of the Osgoode Disability Collective as well as the student group OUTLaws, which is the Queer law student group. Outside of volunteer work and school, Michelle co-owns and operates her own disability and accessibility consulting business called Blind Girl Inc. Michelle is also currently on contract with Inside Out Film Festival working to increase access for folks with disabilities in the film festival industry. 
Michelle is passionate about disability, accessibility, equity and inclusion. Much of the work she completed in her undergrad was from a lens of intersectionality and questioning the systems that keep certain groups oppressed. As an individual with intersecting identities of oppression, Michelle strives to use her lived experience to connect with other groups and create conversations about access and community care. In her law program Michelle is focused on human rights law, disability law, and family law. Upon completion of her law degree, Michelle hopes to work in family law helping families with disabilities navigate systems like the healthcare and/or education system. Michelle also has an interest in completing her Masters of Social Work degree to help provide the emotional support to her clients.