Staff
Staff
Co-founder of Alternatives, Michel Lambert believes in the importance of uniting groups and organizations of the civil society, here and in the rest of the world, to promote democratic principles, equality and fairness for all.Prior to being nominated Executive Director in 2007, he established and developed various international solidarity... >>>
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Bashir has been working with Alternatives
since 2001 in different capacities. He is our Program Manager for the Middle East and
North Africa region and was Field Director for the Participatory Development Program, a
bilateral project between the Canadian and Egyptian governments between 2003 and 2006. Bashir has academic degrees in psychology,... >>>
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Catherine Pappas has been working with Alternatives since 1997. Having managed the internship programs and international solidarity projects in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and Palestine, she now coordinates the Middle Eastern and North African programs. Holder of an M.A. in Communications from The University of Quebec in Montreal, Catherine... >>>
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Feroz Mehdi is one of the founding members of Alternatives and has been working largely on projects related to South Asia. In addition, he has been focused on education programs within Quebec and Canada by way of organizing conferences and publishing newsletters and other analytical documents. Since 2007, he has taken on the role of Secretary... >>>
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Gaëlle Javier has a multidisciplinary profile . She has studied environmental design, urban planning and international project management. She also has practical experience in ecological horticulture. Since 2007, she has been working at Alternatives on different projects. She has actively contributed to the urban agriculture project of roof... >>>
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Khadija Mounib works in the field of new immigrant employability. An former economics student, she has studied in Morocco, France and Canada. At the end of her studies in France, she established herself in Morocco, where she worked in various fields. In 1993, she immigrated to Canada, where she currently resides. Khadija Mounib is the author of... >>>
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As a co-founder of Alternatives, Marcela Escribano has been largely responsible for projects in Latin American and the Caribbean. She has been working in this region for years - encouraging social organizations to network and connect with citizens - most notably in Brazil, where she worked for two years as a mobilization advisor for the Minister... >>>
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Ever since Mélanie discovered the impact and potential of information technology and communications (ICT) in attaining different forms of social justice, she has invested her energy and creativity in projects combining the two. Her initiation to the politicization of ICT came after an internship with Alternatives in 2007 in Cameroon. Today, she is... >>>
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Having been the captain of Algeria’s National basketball team, Yasmina Moudda has traveled extensively throughout the world. Her international experiences allowed her to see firsthand the social inequalities and the injustice ravaging the countries that she visited. Consequently, she became motivated to join Alternatives in April 1998 in order to... >>>
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Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Ronald Cameron has been Chairperson of the Board since 2010. Teacher at Cégep Saint-Laurent, Ronald has also worked as the Director General of the Institut de Coopération Pour L'Éducation Des Adultes (ICEA). He was also president of the Fédération nationale des enseignantes et des enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ-CSN) over the past decade. He also... >>>
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Guillaume Hébert is a researcher at IRIS (l’Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économiques) where he works on matters of health, housing, taxation and Neoliberalism. He holds a Masters degree in political science from UQAM. Social, economic and political phenomena in Latin America and the Caribbean motivated his studies in urban... >>>
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Marie Auer-Labonté was a member of the Board between 2010 and 2012. As a former intern with Alternatives, Marie had the opportunity to help with the advancement of projects in Venezuela and Egypt. In May 2009 she joined a delegation to Palestine and Israel and in 2010 participated in the World Education Forum at Ramallah, Palestine. Through... >>>
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Miriam Fahmy was a member of the Executive Committee in 2011 and 2012. She is the director of research and publications at the Summer School of the Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM), a school of citizenship for young people between the ages of 15 and 35. She is in charge of the annual reference book "The State of Quebec". She holds a Master’s degree... >>>
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Nathalie Guay was recently named Assistant to the Executive Committee of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), chiefly responsible for international cases. Since 2007 she worked as a union representative in the CSN research unit, on issues of sustainable development, aboriginal relations, the social responsibility of organizations,... >>>
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Sonia Djelidi is a militant and activist for human rights and a graduate of Université de Montréal, where she studied economics. She spent three years in West Africa working with civil society organizations in the field of human rights and with community media in Niger and Burkina Faso. In 2010, she co-founded the Collectif Tunisien au Canada (... >>>
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Susan Caldwell was an active participant in union proceedings at Cégep Dawson, where she was a psychology teacher for over 30 years. Originally from the States, before moving to Quebec in 1976 Susan spent five years in Toronto, where she was involved in a childcare cooperative and participated in public sit-ins over a six-month period. As a... >>>
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Hamouda Soubhi is the Executive Director of the Moroccan Network for Euro-Mediterranean NGOs. He is both a co-founder of Alternatives in Montréal and of the Forum des alternatives Sud in Morocco. He sits on the Governance Council of Alternatives International and plays an essential role within the Liaison Committee of the International... >>>
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Louise Vandelac is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She is also co-director of VertigO and a researcher at CINBIOSE (Center for Interdisciplinary Research on biology, health, society and the environment), a center that collaborates with... >>>
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Michèle St-Denis is a community psychologist and a psychology professor at the Cégep de Vieux-Montreal and UQAM. She is a member of CSN’s International Solidarity and Status of Women committees, as well the Teachers Union of the Cégep du Vieux Montréal and the FNEEQ International Action Committee. Motivated by her values for feminism and... >>>
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Thomas Chiasson-Lebel has been an active member of Alternatives since 1997. He has served on the Alternatives Board of Directors since 2005 and on its Executive Committee since 2007. He has been active in student and labour union movements, having first joined Alternatives as an intern. He traveled as a chaperon for several interns to... >>>
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For more than 18 years, Claude Généreux served as president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer within the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Territorial Council of Social Affairs. During the last 21 years, he has largely contributed to the advancement of the union cause in Quebec and has played a major role in the development... >>>
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Thérèse Guay has been a member of Alternatives since 2005. She has taken part in the organization of the first Quebec Social Forum in 2006-2007 and she repeated her involvement in 2009 as Coordinator of the programming committee. She also took part in the Americas Social Forum in 2008 (Guatemala) and in the World Social Forum in 2011 (Senegal).... >>>
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