Working as part of SHARE’s Responsible Investment Leadership team, Jennifer leads the education work, and developing SHARE’s networks and external communications.

Jennifer has devoted her career to helping progressive organizations develop and execute effective and strategic campaigns. She has worked in staff roles for NGOs including Greenpeace and the Greenbelt Foundation, and as a consultant for organizations including the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and UNICEF Canada.

Alongside her consulting work, since 2014, Jennifer has served as an elected Trustee at the Toronto District School Board. She is respected at the board as a leader in guiding the organization through a challenging period of renewal. The 22 person board has oversight of a $3.4 billion annual budget, operational policies and strategic plans for an organization with 40,000 employees, 250,000 students and 584 schools. As part of that role, Jennifer has served the Board’s Audit Committee, Urban Indigenous Advisory Committee, and the Toronto Lands Corporation.

Omar is a social planner with a diverse background leading sustainable finance, urban planning, government relations, and public engagement initiatives across multiple sectors. He has advised a wide range of international actors including institutional investors, business executives, senior government officials, and Indigenous and not-for-profits leaders. He is the former Director of Government Relations and Sector Development at Vantage Point. In this role, Omar led advocacy efforts for a public policy environment that would strengthen B.C.’s not-for-profit sector. Omar also co-founded Happy City, an urban planning and design consultancy that uses the science of wellbeing to help create healthier, happier, and more inclusive communities. Omar’s career has focused on mobilizing a wide diversity of actors working together to advance practical actions and policies that strengthen communities and the environment.

Omar has a degree in International Business from the Technological Institute of Monterrey in Mexico City. While pursuing his MA in Community Development and Social Planning in the University of British Columbia, Omar co-founded a network of students, researchers, and practitioners advocating Canadian universities to incorporate responsible investment practices into the management of their endowments and pension funds.