Zeke Eaton
[PEIANC BOARD MEMBER SINCE 2001]
Currently PEIANC President
email: sz.eaton@pei.sympatico.ca
Zeke has participated in countless immigration, settlement and multicultural events over the years, including the International Tea House Committee and the National Working Group which developed the National Toolbox for Successful Immigrant Settlement in Rural Canada.
Graham Pike
[PEIANC Board Member since November, 2000]
Currently PEIANC Vice President
email: gpike@upei.ca
Professor, UPEI Dean of Education
Office: 403 Memorial Hall
Phone: 1 902-628-4304
Research Interests:
My research interests include the theory and practice of global education, the preparation of teachers for teaching in international contexts, education for diversity, and education for citizenship.
Dan Doran
[PEIANC Board Member since October, 2007]
Currently PEIANC Secretary/Treasurer
email: dandoran@eastlink.ca
In addition to his current board work, Dan has previous experience as Immigration and Settlement Officer with Citizenship and Immigration Canada specializing in enforcement and refugee re-settlement. He took a special assignment in Ottawa in the spring of 2000 to assist the national Director of Settlement in re-writing and updating the national manual of policies and procedures for immigrant settlement to Canada.
In 2000, he became the acting supervisor of the local Citizenship and Immigration office where he worked until 2004. He left CIC to take another federal assignment with Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada and having completed that assignment in 2006 is currently back with his home department of the Canada Revenue Agency.
Jimena Sanchez
[PEIANC Board Member since November, 2006]
email: piolinxi@hotmail.com
Jimena came to PEI from Colombia, South America in 2003 with her family. Her family arrived as refugees fleeing persecution (her father was a human-rights lawyer targeted with death threats). Jimena graduated from UPEI in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and is currently participating in PEIANC’s IEHP program and aspires to be a medical doctor. She joined the Board of Directors after participating in a National Canadian Council for Refugees Conference in Montreal as a keynote panel presenter on refugee youth.
Doreley Coll
[PEIANC Board Member since October, 2006]
email: dcoll@upei.ca
Associate Professor and Chair
B. A. (Honours) The University of Alberta, M. A. The University of Alberta, Ph. D. University of Toronto
Research Interests: Literary Theory; Women's Studies; Latin American Studies; Golden Age Literature; Mysticism; Santa Teresa de Jesus; Clarice Lispector
Myra Thorkelson
[PEIANC Board Member since September, 2007]
email: thorkelm@hotmail.com
Myra worked as an educator for 38 years in Canada, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Ghana, Fiji, and Belize. She taught at all levels, Primary, Intermediate, Secondary, Adult Education, and University. She recently took early retirement from the Diversity and Aboriginal Consultant position at the PEI Department of Education and then volunteered for two and a half years with CUSO in Belize, Central America, where she worked with pregnant teenagers and teenage mothers—designing, implementing and evaluating ESL courses on parenting, literacy, computer literacy, etc. As Diversity Consultant at the Department of Education, Myra worked with the school system to develop programs for Newcomers and Aboriginal youth in the school system. ESL assessments were a huge part of her work. Myra more recently received certification to provide Canadian Language Benchmark Placement Tests (CLBPT) to immigrants and refugees arriving on PEI, and is the principal Language Assessor for the PEI ANC.
Don Wagner
[PEIANC BOARD MEMBER SINCE 2005]
email: dwagner@upei.ca
Don is currently an Associate Professor at UPEI’s School of Business. Before entering academia, Don had been a tax manager at a large accounting firm. In 1994 Don returned to school to obtain his PhD, which he completed in 2000. Don now teaches strategic management, international business, and introduction to business. His current research focuses on the geography of innovation.
Research Interests:
• International Trade ; Migration of Skilled People
• Economic Development ; International Taxation Policy
• Competing from a Distance; Innovation
Godfrey Baldacchino
[PEIANC Board Member since October, 2007]
email: gbaldacchino@upei.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Patterns of governance in sub-national island jurisdictions; extreme cold-water island tourism; impact of bridges on island communities; successful small manufacturing firms from small islands; brain rotation; immigration; labour relations; human resource management; adult education; worker empowerment; the development of co-operatives. Godfrey has done key research on immigrantion and settlement on PEI and is currently completing a publication profiling over 40 immigrant entrepreneurs on PEI (funded by the Population Secretariat).