Centre For Inquiry Canada’s Board of Directors is elected by the CFIC Council at the Annual General Meeting.
CFIC Board of Directors March 2018-March 2019
Gus Lyn-Piluso – President gus.lyn-piluso@centreforinquiry.ca
Seanna Watson – Vice-President, Acting Treasurer, Education Chair education@centreforinquiry.ca
Blythe Nilson – Science Chair science@centreforinquiry.ca
Jason Lawrence – Human Rights Chair humanrights@centreforinquiry.ca
Alex Kenjeev – Director At Large
Sarah Pekeles – Director At Large
Kevin Smith – Past Chair ksmith@cficanada.ca
Kevin has been involved with CFI Canada since 2006, the year of its inception. He has been the active Chair of CFI-C since 2012. In 2012, Kevin was Chair of the Ontario GSA (Gay/Straight Alliance) Coalition, where he represented CFI-C advocating for Bill 13, which provides for associations of gay and straight students together in all publicly funded schools, including Roman Catholic schools. Until May 17, 2014, after the feature ended, Kevin spent four years representing the atheist worldview, writing weekly articles for a column in the Ottawa Citizen, defending secular values, illustrating the benefits of living a religion-free life and attacking religious homophobia and misogyny.
CFIC Past Board Members
CFIC is proud to recognize the service of Board Members since our formal founding in 2007.
- S. Wynton Semple (2007-2008)
- Debora Del Monte (2007-2008)
- Paul Zammit (2007-2008)
- Carol Parlow (2008-2011)
- Richard Thain (2008-2011)
- Jack Wallas (2008-2009)
- Zak Fiddes (2011-2014)
- Lorne Trottier (2010-2011)
- Ron Lindsay (2010-2011)
- Thomas Flynn (2010-2011)
- Derek Rodgers (2010-2011)
- Barry Karr (2010-2011)
- Ian McQuaig (2011)
- Michael Gardiner (2011)
- Kathryn Calder (2011)
- Iain Martel (2013-2014)
- William Cranor (2013-2014)
- Gary Fitzgibbon (201x-2014)
- Dorothy Hays (2014)
- Veronica Abbass (2014-2015)
- Mike Gray (2014-2015)
- Joanna Nguyen-Truong (2014-2015)
- Genessa Radke (2014-2015)
- Pat O-Brien (2010-2016)
- Wil McDowall
- Danielle Russell