The Team

Meet the people working to continue Lucia Kowaluk's vision of community democracy, social justice, and urban ecology.

Leadership

Board of Directors

The Foundation is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors committed to carrying forward Lucia Kowaluk's legacy of civic engagement and community action.

Roger Caron

President

Dimitri Roussopoulos

Vice-President

France Labrecque

Treasurer

John Goedike

Board Member

Stanley Aleong

Board Member

Photos and biographies of the Board members will be added soon.

Our Team

Staff

General Coordinator

Nathan McDonnell

Nathan is a neighbourhood-based community organiser who has worked in Milton Parc since 2014. He has co-founded numerous initiatives in food security, housing, urban ecology, democracy, and the social economy, while helping secure more than one million dollars in grant funding to support community projects.


Community Organizers (Summer 2026)

Shirley Barnea

Shirley is a climate activist and an economics and political science student at Université de Montréal. Since 2019, she has organized more than thirty citizen mobilisations with a variety of organizations and coalitions, served as a spokesperson, and published several opinion articles.

Jérémie Vincent-Rochette

Jérémie is an urban studies student and researcher at UQAM. His work includes research on the co-creation of a strategic vision for Milton-Parc, the use of urban planning regulations as tools for climate change adaptation, and the development of non-market housing.

Link for the research in question: Renforcer la capacité d’agir de la communauté par la cocréation d’une vision stratégique citoyenne pour l’aménagement et le développement du quartier Milton-Parc

The Lucia Kowaluk Foundation team
Jérémie Vincent-Rochette, Shirley Barnea, and Nathan McDonnell.

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