Our Leadership:
Sankar
with Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp,
which includes The Times
and Sunday Times of London,
Fox TV, and HarperCollins.
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Sankar
with Prince Albert II of Monaco. |
Sankar
with the Honourable James Bartleman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
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Ms.
Celia Sankar is DiversityCanada Foundation’s founder and Executive
Director.
Ms.
Sankar brings to the organisation wide experience in the management and
organisation of community and youth activities. Through her role as
coordinator of a national drug prevention program for high school
students in Trinidad, Ms. Sankar was responsible for securing
participation by the Trinidad Government Ministries of Education and
Social Development as well as the Police Service, churches and service
organisations such as the Kiwanis Club. She designed and implemented a
program which provided over 1,000 high school students with information
on drug abuse and secured pledges from the teenagers to abstain from
drug abuse.
Ms. Sankar also acted as coordinator of an innovative
program in Trinidad to train youth in media skills and had oversight of
over 50 youth who wrote and broadcast radio programs for their peers.
Ms. Sankar has high-level international experience in the field of
youth development, having participated in workshops in Israel and
Washington, D.C., (organised by the Washington D.C.-based
Inter-American Development Bank) on designing and implementing programs
to encourage the participation of youth in the economic and social
development of their nation.
Ms.
Sankar’s background is in the media. For many years in Trinidad she was
the editorial supervisor of a national newspaper in Trinidad (The
Junior Express, circulation over 30,000) published specifically
for
youth; included in her duties was the design and implementation of
programs for high school students to promote journalism as a career
choice. Ms. Sankar has a Master’s Degree in International Journalism
from City University of London, England, and has worked with
international media organisations such as BBC Radio; The Times and The
Sunday Times of London, England; The Globe and Mail; The Vancouver Sun; The Victoria Times-Colonist
and several others.
Ms.
Sankar has wide and varied experience as an educator of youth. She was
an instructor of Writing and Communications Skills at White Mountain
Academy of the Arts in Elliot Lake; an English as a Second Language
teacher in China; and a Sunday School teacher in Trinidad. The author
of the Canadian bestselling inspirational book Journey
to Joy, Ms.
Sankar has facilitated workshops and conducted seminars and media
interviews on the topic of developing positive attitudes and facing
life’s challenges in every major city from Ottawa to Vancouver.
Go to
Celia
Sankar's
personal website.
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Members
of the DiversityCanada Foundation board include:
Mr.
Zhu Wei — President and Secretary
Businessman
and former school administrator
Mr.
Jiu Ming — Vice President
Businessman
Ms.
Mia Hui — Treasurer
Child
and Youth Development Worker
Mrs.
Coral Dinunzio — Director
Former
member of the Ontario Municipal Recreation Association
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