Leigh Bursey Email & Phone Number

Peer Reviewer for the Green Municipal Fund, focusing on Sustainable Affordable Housing build and program applications. Current Housing Initiatives Manager. Current Vice President of the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association. Former Chronic Homelessness Housing Case Manager and Supportive Housing Coordinator, research and engagement consultant, and journalist. Former front-line homeless shelter support staff and former provincial housing officer. Previous experience of eleven years as a municipal City Council Member with a demonstrated history of working in non-profit organization management. Skilled in Social Enterprise, Grassroots Organizing, Youth Leadership, Performing Arts, and Community Organizing. Strong social justice background in homelessness and poverty prevention, with General Arts and Sciences, Children and Youth Worker Diploma from St. Lawrence College, and is recognized as a Chartered Housing Professional through the Chartered Institute of Housing. Founder of the Mount Pearl Streetfriends and Co-Founder of the Brockville Streetfriends. Writer for Invisible People. Former television talk show host on Critical Thinking on YourTV Brockville for twelve seasons. Former Brockville Council Representative on the Brockville Municipal Drug Strategy Steering Committee, the Brockville Public Library Board, and the Cataraqui Regional Conservation Authority, former chair of Brockville Public Transit Improvement Task Force.

Listed skills include Volunteer Management, Community Engagement, Governance, Government, and 41 others.

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  St. Lawrence College

  Diploma