Project Team
- Project Manager - Danielle Letang, Rural Ontario Institute, Manager of Data Strategy
- Melanie Bidiuk, Rural Ontario Institute, Communications & Program Manager
- Brianna Pitt, Rural Ontario Institute, Communications Coordinator
- Yogesh Mandal, Rural Ontario Institute, GIS Technician
- Peri Dworatzek, Ecological Footprint Initiative, Senior Data Analyst
- Stacey McDonald, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Learning and Evaluation Specialist
- Nelson Rogers, Consultant, Community Transformation Associates
Steering committee
ROI is grateful to our dedicated steering committee members for their time and help in ensuring the successful delivery of this project:
- Chair - Ellen Sinclair, Executive Director, Rural Ontario Institute
- Kristin Crane, Director, Social Research & Planning Council, Huron-Perth United Way
- Liz Forsberg, Lead, Partnership Investments, Ontario Trillium Foundation
- Katie Kish, Assistant Professor, Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University
- Steve McCabe, Councilor, Wellington North, ROMA Zone 2 representative
- Suzanne Trivers, Former Executive Director, Mount Forest Family Health Team (retired)
- Karla Uliana, Senior Policy Advisor, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness
- Candice Zhang, Policy Advisor, Ontario Nonprofit Network
Data champions
ROI is grateful to our volunteer focus group for acting as champions for this project and for rural data. We are fortunate to be working with 23 data champions who represent diverse rural perspectives from across Ontario, including:
- Town of Goderich
- City of Temiskaming Shores
- Tay Valley Township
- Front of Yonge Township
- Township of Whitewater Region
- Municipality of North Grenville
- Huron County
- Bruce County
- Oxford County
- Elgin County
- Haliburton County
- Timiskaming Health Unit
- Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit
- Four County Labour Market Planning Board
- Centre for Workforce Development
- Sarnia Lambton Workforce Development Board
- Workforce Planning Board of Grand Erie
- Ontario Federation of Agriculture
- Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Agribusiness