Mitzie Hunter is Vice President of External Relations for Goodwill, a non-profit organization with a mission to provide work opportunities and skill development to people who face employment barriers.   Prior to joining Goodwill, she was Managing Partner in a consulting firm, Mitcom Communications, a communications and strategy consulting company serving the public sector and technology industry.  She is a past President of SMART Toronto, an association for high technology industries, where she provided direction for a number of initiatives including, participation in the technology portions of the Toronto 2008 Olympic Bid.   Prior to that, Mitzie was Regional Director of Government Relations for Bell Canada, responsible for issues management and economic development activities.  She has held various management positions within Bell Canada, including Call Centre and Corporate Communications.   Mitzie has served on the Board of Directors of numerous non-profit organizations.   She co-chaired the Board of Directors of the New Media Village Growth Corporation, served as founding chair for the Board of Directors of Liberty Village New Media Centre and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Yonge Street Mission and the Board of Directors of the United Way of Greater Toronto.   She is currently a member of the TVOntario Board of Directors since 2001.

Bohdan Onyschuk is a partner at Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, practicing in municipal and development law. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1968; appointed QC in 1979. Mr. Onyschuk has acted as a member of counsel to the Select Committee of the Ontario Legislature on Taxation (1968). He has served as Commissioner on the Reville Commission (1973) and was selected by the Province of Ontario (November 2000) to advise on urban economic development tools aimed at stimulating economic redevelopment and infrastructure financing of Ontario’s municipalities.

The Ontario Municipal Economic Infrastructure Financing Authority retained Mr. Onyschuk in connection with the new $1-billion Ontario Opportunity tax-exempt infrastructure bonds. He acts for a number of municipalities, major shopping centers and land development companies in the Greater Toronto Area. Additionally, Mr. Onyschuk practices in the field of environmental assessment and chaired the Canadian Urban Institute/Province of Ontario Understanding Brownfields Conference in September 2000. He has lectured on the American phenomenon of “Smart Growth” and his extensive research publication Smart Growth in North America was published in September 2001. Mr. Onyschuk is the Director of the Canadian Division of the International Council of Shopping Centres and chair of the Board of the Canadian Urban Institute.

N. Jane Pepino is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and University of Texas at Austin, holding both an LL.B., and LL.M.   She practices in the area of development, planning and municipal law, acting for private landowners, municipalities, developers, ratepayers and government agencies, as a partner in the Toronto law firm of Aird & Berlis LLP.   She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1985, appears in all editions of the Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, and was named one of Canada's Top 25 Women Lawyers by Lexpert Magazine.

She also has been actively involved in a number of Boards and Commissions, including the Ontario Human Rights Commission (1980-1982) and its Race Relations Division, the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Commissioners of Police (1982-1989) (being the first woman member and Vice-Chair), the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women (1985-1991), and The Bishop Strachan School (1993-2003).   She has Chaired a number of special enquiries, including Federal Enquiries into Half-Way Houses, Temporary Absences from Prison and Dangerous Offenders; a Provincial P.C. Party Task Force on participation of Women in Politics; and the Metro Toronto Task Force on Public Violence against Women and Children.   She served ten years as President of METRAC, which, since 1984 has acted as a catalyst to government and institutions on the issue of violence against women and children.   Ms. Pepino has served on a variety of charitable and community-based organizations including on the Boards of Women's College Hospital, where she served as Chair, and Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre.   She is founding Chair of the Ontario Women's Health Council, created in 1998 to provide policy advice directly to the Minister of Health.   She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2000.

As his life-long goal, Dr. Joseph Wong has been striving to bring equity and fairness to the underprivileged groups in our society and to promote integration and participation of these groups into the mainstream life. Since the start of his community work in 1979, Dr. Wong has helped raise tens of millions of dollars for refugee relief, medical research, social services and geriatric care facilities in Canada. In 1987, Dr. Wong launched a campaign to build a geriatric care centre offering culturally and linguistically appropriate service for the Chinese community. The first Yee Hong Centre opened in 1994. Under his leadership and with tireless fundraising effort, the Yee Hong family will have a total of four comprehensive geriatric centres in greater Toronto by 2004, three of them providing a portion of beds for other ethnic communities. In addition, Dr. Wong helped found the National Movement for Harmony in Canada in 1994 to promote mutual understanding and harmony amongst Canadians. He also sits on the board of many organizations, including The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Children’s Foundation, Premier’s Council for Health, Well-Being and Social Justice, Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, Canadian Council of Christians and Jews.