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Civic Panel Members

Saint John (Greater Saint John Area)

Councillor Carl A. White (Co-Chair)
Carl has served as a councillor for the City of Saint John since 1998 and as Deputy Mayor from 2001-2004. Carl has served on a variety of committees since his 1998 election. Special areas of interest include housing and environmental issues, waterfront development, and youth programming. Carl is a Human Rights Officer with the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission.
Randall Hatfield (Co-Chair)
Randy is the Executive Director of the Human Development Council.
Brenda Murphy
Brenda is Coordinator of the Urban Core Support Network (UCSN) since 1997. Previous to that she volunteered with UCSN and was with the United Church for eleven years. Since 2003, she had been an elected councillor for the Town of Grand Bay-Westfield and serves as Deputy Mayor. She has also served on a number of boards and guided many community initiatives.
Leticia Adair
Leticia has worked with the Refugee Support Centre for more than 15 years; first as a volunteer, then as a paid coordinator, then after a lack of funding, as a volunteer again Her volunteer involvement has included being a member of the Urban Core Support Network, Atlantic Canada’s Poor People’s Conference committee; board member of the Human Development Council; member of the founding board of the Saint John Legal Centre, member of the Community Health Centre Advisory Council and she has helped to establish a local chapter of the Council of Canadians and continues to play a lead role in that organization. She was also a recipient of the Human Development Council’s 2003 Community Services Award.
Jane Barry
Jane is currently the Executive Director of the Greater Saint John Community Foundation. Jane served as an MLA for the Province of New Brunswick from 1987 – 1999 and served in cabinet as Minister of State for Childhood Services, Minister of Environment, and Solicitor General
Grace Losier
Grace has served as Mayor of the Town of Grand Bay – Westfield since 1997.
Steve Carson
Steve is the General Manager and CEO of Enterprise Saint John.
Dr. Lee Chalmers
Lee is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick-Saint John. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Essex. Her research interests center on the impact of the gendering process on work organization and work relations. Her most recent work has focused on home based telework. She has also been involved as a member of the gender analysis teams on CIDA funded projects in China, Cuba and Vietnam. She teaches gender relations, the sociology of work, research methods, statistical analysis, and introduction to sociology, and coordinates the Gender Studies programme.
Bill Gale
Bill is currently a real estate agent who, over the decades, has served on community boards and organizations in a wide variety of capacities. His community mindedness has spread across Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. He has served as General Campaign Chairman for United Way of greater Saint John. He also sat on the Board of Directors of Family Services, St. Joseph Hospital Foundation, the Fundy Region Development Commission, Enterprise Saint John, and the Harbour Station Commission. His most recent community leadership role is as co-chair and founder of the Saint John Business Community Anti-Poverty Initiative (BCAPI). He was also a recipient of the Human Development Council’s 2004 Community Services Award.
Kit Hickey
Kit is the Executive Director of Housing Alternatives in Saint John, NB. Kit has played an active leadership role in the broader housing sector, including the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association, the New Brunswick Non-Profit Housing Association, where she served six years as President, and Habitation New Brunswick, a provincial housing advocacy group. She is also involved in helping to solve the homeless crisis. She was involved in developing First Steps housing, a transition house program for pregnant and parenting youth.
She has helped develop 10 co-ops in Saint John and she continues to deliver management services to eight of them.
James Thériault
James is Executive Director of Association Regionale de la Communaute Francophone de Saint Jean. (ARCf). ARCf is committed to providing Francophones of Greater Saint John with the best living environment by initiating community development, seeing to the empowerment of the French-speaking community, and by being the catalyst of cultural harmony. He has also served as chairman of the Fort La Tour Development Authority and Advantage SJ