The Yukon Human Rights Commission

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Left to right, back row: Fia Jampolsky (co-chair), Jean-Sébastien Blais, Juanita Wood
Front row: Gloria Baldwin-Schultz, Rick Goodfellow (co-chair)

Jean-SÉbastien Blais | Jean-Sébastien Blais was appointed in December 2009. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from Laval University with a specialty in public consultation and policy building and is a member of several networks of public practitioners such as the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and the Canadian International Council (CIC). He has worked as a communications advisor for the Quebec City Hall, and as such updated the communication policy and facilitated numerous Town Hall meetings. He has worked as a researcher in Toronto with a firm that designs public consultations. He also worked with scholars and senior public servants on publications, surveys and seminars for the Institute for Public Administration of Canada (IPAC). As well, he has done research on best practices for the Center of Excellence in Public Management and Accountability (CEPMA), a network of leaders in public administration.

RICK GOODFELLOW | Rick Goodfellow, Executive Director of Challenge Community Vocational Alternatives, a program that supports the employment of people with disabilities was appointed in December 2005. Mr. Goodfellow has extensive senior management experience in the public sector, non-government and business sectors. He has served on several committees and boards related to employment, access to services, and communications for persons with disabilities. He has diverse knowledge and background with respect to the rights of persons with disabilities and has provided training and developed policy in this area. He has recently taken part in public discussions regarding the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Fia Jampolsky | Fia Jampolsky was appointed in December 2010. She has a degree in Political Science and Canadian Studies from University of Alberta and a law degree from University of Calgary. Ms. Jampolsky practiced law at Legal Aid for over 10 years, working in the areas of criminal, family and child protection law throughout the Yukon. She moved to Cabott and Cabott in February 2010 in order to represent Residential School survivors advance Independent Assessment Claims under the Settlement Agreement. Ms. Jampolsky has been very involved with efforts to improve the lives of individuals with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder, serving on the board of FASSY from 2004 – 2010. With the generous assistance of the Yukon Law Foundation, she is presently conducting a research project on the intersection between FASD victim and offender within the Criminal Justice System. 

Gloria Baldwin-Schultz | Gloria Baldwin-Schultz was appointed in December 2009. She immigrated with her family to Canada from Pakistan in 1964 and has a B.A. in psychology and sociology from Ottawa University and a Master in Pastoral Studies from St Paul University in Ottawa specializing in marriage and family therapy. She has lived and worked in various parts of Canada, but moved to the Yukon in 1998 to accept a position as a mental health therapist with Yukon Family Services. Since then she has worked in most Yukon communities through her private practice and collaboratively through contracts with Yukon First Nations providing counselling to individuals and families and training to staff on counselling related topics.

Juanita Wood | Juanita Wood was appointed in December 2010. She holds a Business Administration Diploma from Yukon College. Juanita has lived in the Yukon for over 31 years and raised two children. She worked as the Facility and Program Support Manager at the Yukon Liquor Corporation until her recent retirement. She is an avid outdoors enthusiast, and is passionate about rights: human rights, aboriginal rights, women's rights, legal rights, etc. Juanita served on the Whitehorse Housing Authority Board of Directors from 2005 through to the end of 2007. She also is an active volunteer at the Marsh Lake Community Center.