Meet our Team

Dorothy helps organizations and institutions use science and technology to solve problems. She is passionate about lending not only her voice but her hands to develop tech-based solutions that create meaningful change in our communities.

Laura brings multi-sector experience with expertise in strategy, partnerships, customer success, marketing, and public relations. She is accountable for all communications and marketing efforts at Code for Canada, while also leading external and internal innovation initiatives to help ensure the organization is continuously meeting the needs of our partners, staff, and the public. She is especially motivated to be working at the intersection of technology and the social good.

Danielle is a people & culture expert. She has successfully helped leaders grow organizations and comply with rapidly changing industry conditions. She helps create and advise creative Human Resource solutions to meet the company’s needs.

Andrew is a tri-sector athlete with a passion for tech and innovation. Before joining Code for Canada, he honed his skills in academia (international relations), government and politics, and in the private sector as a consultant and entrepreneur. In his current role, Andrew helps to grow relationships with government and community partners where civic tech could have the greatest social impact in making Canada more accessible, equitable, and inclusive.

Sanjit has worked in the private and public sector, solving complex challenges through design research, interaction design, and user interface design. Sanjit believes transforming experiences requires the best of our minds, hearts, and hands.

Umair is an engineer with an MSc in Engineering Business Management from the University of Warwick. Before joining Code for Canada, Umair headed operations for the world’s first live cricket highlights platform with 3 million monthly users. Umair enjoys working as part of a collaborative team and is rarely without a smile.

Sarah is a marketing and communications professional who has showcased the work of leading non-profits. With a background in journalism, she loves researching, interviewing and finding the best way to tell stories of impact.

Doug has a background in politics and comes to us from Ottawa, where he worked as a Data and Digital Advisor on Parliament Hill. He has a keen interest in using technology to drive social change and was a regular at Civic Tech Ottawa before joining our Toronto office.

Valerie has worked with public sector and non-profit organizations in creating in creating content for a variety of channels including web content, social media and stakeholder communications materials. She is drawn to building and engaging communities, online and in-person.

Melissa has a bachelor of science in Psychology and has been working as a human resources professional for profit and nonprofit organizations for the past 8 years. She has international experience working in different Latin American countries and now in Canada. Her passion is to understand organizations from a human-experience perspective driving into solutions that aim shared challenges. She considers the growth mindset as a key tool to develop creative transformations personal and professionally.

Russell is a product-minded software developer who has helped companies bring innovative products to market and adopt more agile approaches to development. He’s a vocal advocate for accessibility and inclusive design.

Kay is a facilitator and designer of content, experiences, conversations, and services. For more than a decade, Kay has partnered with social purpose organizations spanning the public, corporate, and non-profit sectors—including Code for Canada in 2020 when she served as a UX Fellow!

Throughout her career, Kay lights up at experiences where she can apply her passions for purpose, people, and processes to guide teams in uncovering opportunities and reimagining possibilities.

Kim has worked in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, scaling community programs, with a focus on accessibility. Kim leverages her experience in marketing, human resources, and UX program management, to bring new services to market while amplifying the voices of under-represented communities.

Anita has extensive experience driving digital transformation and organizational change management initiatives, with a strong focus on delivering "tech for good." 

She is a passionate thought leader and trusted advisor, who leverages a blend of business acumen, servant leadership and agile principles to champion transformation initiatives, managing diverse strategic and technical portfolios across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Usama is an experienced UX designer coming from a freelance background. Usama is passionate about learning users pain points and their goals to design empathetic solutions. He enjoys meeting new people and rock climbing.

Zaid is an entrepreneur, developer, and UX designer from Waterloo, Ontario. With experience in healthcare, eCommerce, and digital marketing, Zaid joins Code for Canada excited to build great products that are accessible to all the different people that call Canada their home.

Melissa is a design practitioner with experience in human-centred research and innovation methods. She holds a Master of Design from OCAD University and has worked for 15+ years in both public and private sector organizations.

She’s driven to solve meaningful problems for people and make the services we depend on work better for everybody.

Mark has been programming since childhood and is excited at the chance to use those skills for good instead of profit.

As a dedicated Quality Assurance Analyst with a passion for ensuring excellence in every aspect of project development, Isaac brings a wealth of expertise to the non-profit sector. Isaac possesses a strong background in quality assurance methodologies and a proven track record of implementing effective testing strategies.

With a focus on delivering reliable and user-friendly solutions, he ensures that our projects meet the highest standards of quality, ultimately contributing to the success of our mission

Uneeba strives to deliver meaningful, joyful, and impactful service and product experiences that effectively meet the needs of users and stakeholders alike. She brings a diverse digital perspective, with previous experience leading and managing research, design and strategy across DTC, B2B, public service and community-centric organizations. Combining a background in psychotherapy and a desire to empower a kinder future, Uneeba’s practice is rooted in empathy, human-centred, culturally responsive and trauma-informed frameworks.

Cody is a Service Designer who believes that exceptional service is the cornerstone of public trust in civic institutions. With a diverse background that includes serving in the United States Army and designing outstanding services at TELUS, Cody brings a wealth of unique experiences and perspectives to his work.

Eugene Chen has spent over a decade in senior leadership roles on technology development, collaborating with diverse teams to architect and develop complex, data-heavy systems and interactive visualizations. His public work has been shared, highlighted, and cited in media outlets like the New York Times and CBC. 

He is the Chair of the Canadian Open Data Society, a member of Canada's Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Open Government, and has multiple publications on AI in games as part of his MSc in Computer Science from late 2023.

Lorraine is passionate about helping organizations solve major challenges by tapping in to creative and innovative approaches to change. She has worked with clients ranging from small non-profits to Fortune 500 companies, prioritizing creativity, care, and compassion. She excels in engaging diverse stakeholders through collaborative processes and uses systems thinking to create comprehensive, accessible solutions.

Corrina is a service designer and storyteller, who brings a diverse background in business, research, and ux design to the table. She enjoys collaborating across diverse teams and facilitating the necessary conversations to untangle complex problems.

Charlotte [she/her] is a service designer with experience in the social sector, especially co-creating services alongside people with cognitive disabilities.

She believes good services are thoughtful, efficient, inclusive, responsive to change and lead to better outcomes for all stakeholders.

Mireille’s passion for technology and product management blossomed through her experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in Telco, Fintech and IT. This exposure not only nurtured her versatility but also fuelled her enthusiasm to join the civic tech industry.

Her excitement lies in the opportunity to make a positive impact on people's lives through the digitization of government processes and the transformation of government-facing services.

With a user-centric approach at the forefront, she, with her teams, aims to change the way citizens interact with the government, making it more efficient, accessible, and tailored to their needs.

Mo previously worked in the private sector as a software engineer at 407 ETR and SAP helping build and support large scale, fault tolerant systems.

He is eager to bring those skills to the public sector to help with civic digital transformations.

Wesley is a UX Designer striving to make a positive impact on the digital world by co-creating with the people who occupy the physical world.

Jesse is a digital designer and researcher, crafting systems that benefit people and enable change. They have worked with start-ups, global brands, and community groups to design impactful products.

Ren is a commercial litigator specializing in intellectual property, defamation and new technologies. He previously served as a Google Policy Fellow and the Assistant Director of International Policy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Charles has worked at the intersection of design, technology, and city-building, helping organizations such as MaRS Discovery District, Thomson Reuters, and IBI Group to grow and transform. He is currently the CXO at Futurpreneur Canada, and is on the board of Open CIty Network and Waterfront Toronto’s Digital Strategy Advisory Panel.

Hilda is a management consultant and has advised top global organizations on a range of topics from digital transformation to product and service design. She’s excited to help Code for Canada expand and create broader impact for citizens nationally.

Aaron is a CPA with many years experience in the automotive remarketing sector. Aaron is passionate about building organizational culture and strategy, and he’s excited to be ushering in the industry’s digital transformation.

Ria is a community builder with a passion for creating inclusive spaces. She’s helped launch and grow several communities, including Women Who Code Toronto. Her work is focused on using technology for good and solving for positive social change.

Jon is a purpose-driven leader and builder with a long track record of creating technology products, programs, teams, partnerships and businesses. In his work, he seeks out mission-driven organizations with a strong entrepreneurial culture and a growth orientation that he can support. In those organizations, he can bring both his strategy and business development skills to bear. Among other things, Jon co-founded two startups. He later built one the world's largest entrepreneurship training programs when he was at MaRS Discovery District by partnering with both private and public sector organizations.

During weekends, there's an excellent chance you will find Jon hiking or cross-country skiing, unless the weather is better suited for staying home and watching soccer and writing about entrepreneurship.

Since 2012 Nick Scott has been leading transformational change in the public sector. Most recently, he worked on a massive Life Experience Service Transformation project in the UAE. Before that, he was the Director of Innovation Services at the Government of Canada’s Digital Academy at the Canada School for Public Service. In this role, Nick led the Digital Accelerator Programme, Digital Experimentation, Digital Products, and Digital Events and Engagement teams.

Formerly, Nick worked at the Government of New Brunswick as Executive Director of Open Government and Innovation. In this role, he led Innovation and Design Services, established an Innovation Team, a collaborative workspace and a public innovation framework, facilitating initiatives addressing a wide array of public policy challenges, including mobility, literacy, second language acquisition, natural resource development, municipal reform, and child protection. Previously in his role as Executive Director of the NB Social Policy Research Network, Nick launched the GovMaker Conference to explore the theory and practice of public innovation and co-founded NouLAB; a public and social innovation lab facilitating collaborative, multi-sector problem-solving.

Nick is a part-time lecturer at the University of New Brunswick, where he teaches Science and Technology Studies, and Leadership for Social Innovation. In the Middle East, Nick has served as a jury member for the Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart Government Award at the Dubai Model Centre between 2017 - 2020

Renee is the founder and CEO of GoodBot, which envisions a healthy, adaptive, and resilient digital society where stakeholders work collaboratively to strengthen the sustainable development, deployment and governance of technology through technology governance tools and research.

Prior to GoodBot, Renee founded and led PeaceGeeks for 10 years, working at the intersection of technology, peace, and security. Renee holds a Bachelor’s (Hons) of Commerce from Dalhousie, an MA in Public and International Affairs (Hons) from the University of Ottawa, and a Certificate in Conflict Resolution from Cornell. She is a fellow of the UN Alliance of Civilizations and a winner of the 2017 Google Impact Award.

Sarah is a seasoned Director with a proven track record of using service design and digital innovation to improve processes and services. With a focus on linking creativity and user needs, Sarah has built successful teams and delivered innovative projects that make a positive impact on society.

As the Director of Service Design for the City of Edmonton, Sarah leads teams focused on Customer Experience, Service Review and Improvement, and Service Delivery and Innovation, working to ensure services are open, efficient, collaborative, progressive and community focused.

Gaby Fisch is a coach, advisor and facilitator specializing in leadership, culture, and organizational development. She brings over 20 years of experience gained through a unique combination of corporate, non-profit and tech start-up experience. 

She spent nine years in HR at CIBC, and almost six years at the MaRS Discovery District before starting her own consultancy, Move Forward. Gaby periodically holds fractional roles at tech start-ups and is an Executive-in-Residence with the Brampton Venture Zone.

Simona Ramkisson is a Toronto-based community facilitator and digital literacy educator with 15 years of experience in the community sector. As the Director of Community Development at the Wikimedia Foundation, she is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment for contribution to the open knowledge movement and empowering individuals and communities through impactful digital literacy.

Simona focuses on supporting emerging leaders and collaborating with Canadian organizations to develop scalable, community-based digital literacy programs. She has scaled initiatives at the Mozilla Foundation and The dais (formally Brookfield Institute for Innovation+Entrepreneurship) which have driven systemic change in the digital education landscape, promoting safer online environments and uplifting historically underrepresented/alienated groups.

A graduate of the Rockwood Leadership Institute’s Transformative Facilitation and Art of Leadership program, she brings a community-centered approach to her work and advocacy. Simona also holds an Hons.BA in Criminology from York University.

Joseph is an early pioneer in leveraging digital platforms to mobilize and influence voters to take meaningful action. With his extensive campaign and public affairs experience, Joseph helps clients build authentic grassroots movements across the globe. His data-driven campaign strategies, real-time content production, digital get-out-the-vote programs create winning outcomes.

Prior to joining Crestview Strategy, Joseph served as a senior political staffer for then Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Baird before serving Prime Minister Stephen Harper as his Director of Strategic Communications. While at the Prime Minister’s Office, Joseph led a team tasked with delivering the government’s message directly to Canadians. Embracing innovative concepts from the private sector, he introduced content marketing to help make the government’s message approachable. Before that, as part of a talented team at Global Affairs Canada, Joseph conceptualized and launched Canada’s direct diplomacy efforts in Iran.