Governance Experience
Past Positions
Eastern Representative, Provincial Executive, Green Party of Ontario
2020 - 2025
The Provincial Executive is the main governance body of the Green Party of Ontario, functioning much like a board of directors. The PE is responsible for oversight of the Party, including approving budgets, hiring the Executive Director, setting strategic goals, and tending to various other governance decisions affecting how the Party operates.
Chair, Conduct Committee, Green Party of Ontario
2018 - 2025
The Conduct Committee is responsible for enforcing the Member’s Code of Conduct. Members may make complaints and then an informal (for example, mediation) or a formal resolution (an investigation) is undertaken. Formal resolutions follow the guidelines laid out by the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Procedures for Resolving a Complaint.
Chief Executive Officer, Ottawa Centre Federal Green Party Association
2018-2020
Young Greens Representative, Provincial Executive, Green Party of Ontario
2017-2019
The Provincial Executive is the main governance body of the Green Party of Ontario, functioning much like a board of directors. The PE is responsible for oversight of the Party, including approving budgets, hiring the Executive Director, setting strategic goals, and tending to various other governance decisions affecting how the Party operates.
Executive-at-Large, Simcoe North Green Party (Federal/Provincial)
2016-2017
Campaign Experience
Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Lead, Matt Richter 2025
I was responsible for creating and executing a GOTV strategy for the Greens in Parry Sound-Muskoka (PSM). PSM is a unique challenge due to the size and distribution of the riding, requiring operating from four different offices to co-ordinate across the riding. Our riding had the third highest advance voter turnout in the general election (among 124 ridings) due in part to our Advance GOTV effort. Over the three day advance voting period we knocked, twice, on the doors of over 4,000 of our identified supporters, and also made three rounds of calls. Thanks to our efforts, by the end of Advance Voting over 41% of our supporters had already voted, compared to approximately 13% of the voter base in the riding. On Election Day we mobilized over 120 volunteers to turn out over 75% of our identified supporters, against the 55% general turnout in the riding (in itself a high in a Provincial election where less than half of voters turned out).
Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Lead, Aislinn Clancy 2023
A critical by-election for the GPO where we picked up a seat, doubling the caucus from 1 to 2 MPPs.
Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Lead, Matt Richter 2022
Parry Sound-Muskoka is a rural riding with multiple distinct town centres hours apart, requiring a unique co-ordination with multiple smaller offices. As the GOTV lead I developed a plan to mobilize over 100 volunteers across the riding on Election Day.
EDay Phone Lead, Steve Dyck 2019
Canvasser, Mike Schreiner 2018
Canvasser, Mark Neufeld 2017
Canvasser, Peter Stubbins 2015
Past Projects
GPO General Meetings Reform
2024
The Green Party of Ontario recently reformed the way it conducts its General Meetings. After more than a decade of steady growth, the Party had different needs out if it’s General Meetings. I chaired the committee and lead the drafting of the new procedures that provided greater flexibility on timing, allowed for online or hybrid meetings, and generally modernized meeting procedures.
Green Party of Ontario Member’s Code of Conduct Rewrite
2022
After the adoption of the new Safe Spaces’ Policies, the Party needed to modernize it’s Member’s Code of Conduct. I and one other member wrote the Code of Conduct to be leaner, easier for members to understand, and to better reflect how we expect Member’s to conduct themselves within Party’s spaces, setting a reasonable and clear expectation.
Green Party of Ontario Safe Spaces Policy
2018-2019
As a growing Party, the GPO needed a clear policy on safe spaces. I took the Safe Spaces Committee policy proposals and shaped them into Constitutional and By-law amendments that outline the Party’s commitments to creating a safe space and also procedures for resolving complaints.