Our Boards of Directors
Our board members give generously of their time, skills and expertise to steer and oversee L’Arche’s operations. Our national leaders provide operation expertise and regional leadership.
Board of Directors, L’Arche Canada
A partner in the law firm Stikeman Elliott, specializing in insolvency and litigation, he has grown up with L’Arche and his father was a Community Leader in France and Canada. Before assuming his current position, Joseph was a Board Member of L’Arche Montréal.
Vincent Kazmierski is an Associate Professor and past Chair of the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. He is currently serving as the Chair of the L’Arche Canada Governance Committee.
Nancy Marenick is a retired teacher and former Director of the Writing Centre at St. Francis Xavier University.
Sam is the CEO and Executive Director of Welcome Hall Mission in Montreal, a community organization founded in 1892, dedicated to eliminating chronic homelessness and hunger. He is the author of Good Work Done Better, a book published in 2020 that proposes ideas for how community-based non-profit organizations can improve their impact.
Dr. Agnes Thomas is the Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto. Agnes served in the not-for-profit sector for more than two decades locally and internationally, including time in Larche in India, the US and Canada. She also serves on several non-profit boards and network tables in the Greater Toronto Area.
Lauren Alexander is the Director of Finance and Corporate Services for Build Nova Scotia. Lauren has been part of the L’Arche Canada Foundation Board of Directors since 2021. Lauren also serves on the Board of Directors as Treasurer for the Zatsman Sportsplex, a local non-profit Multi-District facility in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and may be found volunteering with various organizations that her son is apart of.
Randal Van de Mosselaer has been practicing in the areas of insolvency, restructuring and commercial litigation since 1993, and has represented clients before all levels of the courts in both Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as in the Supreme Court of Canada. Randall served on the Board of L’Arche Calgary for 12 ½ years (from October 2004 to June 2017) in various offices, including three years as Board President.
Sharon is a senior Portfolio Manager with BMO Nesbitt Burns, having joined the predecessor company, Nesbitt Thomson, in 1980. She has served on the board of an affordable housing project, St Margaret’s Towers, for over eleven years, most of that time as treasurer.
Board of Directors, L’Arche Canada Foundation
Lauren Alexander is the Director of Finance and Corporate Services for Build Nova Scotia. Lauren has been part of the L’Arche Canada Foundation Board of Directors since 2021. Lauren also serves on the Board of Directors as Treasurer for the Zatsman Sportsplex, a local non-profit Multi-District facility in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and may be found volunteering with various organizations that her son is apart of.
A partner in the law firm Stikeman Elliott, specializing in insolvency and litigation, he has grown up with L’Arche and his father was a Community Leader in France and Canada. Before assuming his current position, Joseph was a Board Member of L’Arche Montréal.
Sharon is a senior Portfolio Manager with BMO Nesbitt Burns, having joined the predecessor company, Nesbitt Thomson, in 1980. She has served on the board of an affordable housing project, St Margaret’s Towers, for over eleven years, most of that time as treasurer.
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