Jordana Armstrong
UCeed Social Impact (investment fund)
Jordana Armstrong is a social impact practitioner with over a decade of experience leading initiatives to advance social entrepreneurship. As Director, Social Innovation at Innovate Calgary, she manages a team that supports hundreds of impact-oriented researchers and entrepreneurs across Alberta who are using market approaches to achieve impact in communities they serve. Jordana launched Innovate Calgary’s first programs for social entrepreneurs in 2016 and most recently spearheaded UCeed Social Impact, a pre-seed investment fund, and the Social Innovation Hub at UCalgary. She draws on experience as a community leader, advisor, and lived experience to inform her mission to create inclusive economic growth and resilient communities.
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Natalie Noble
Calgary John Howard Society
Natalie Noble is an executive director at the Calgary John Howard Society, where she leads programs aimed at tackling the root causes of crime through housing, education, employment, and restorative justice.
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Marnie Kubista
Radiance Family Society
Executive Director of Radiance Family Society, a leader with over 20 years of experience in the Calgary area.
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Randy Poon
Purpose and Performance Project
Chief Story Officer and Founder of the Purpose and Performance Project, a consulting and coaching collaborative that helps leaders and organizations align purpose with impact.
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Stephanie Jackman
Local Investing YYC
Director of the Board, Co-chair of the Fund Development Committee
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Barb Rallison
StartWork
Barb serves as the Associate Director at the Institute for Community Prosperity. Her work, both locally and nationally, focuses on applying economic approaches to advance community benefit and address complex social challenges.
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Philip Lozano
Momentum/SVI: Alberta
Over a decade of experience working in social enterprise, with a focus on community and grassroot initiatives
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Jenna Walsh
Elevated Escapes
Owner of Elevated Escapes, Social Business Coordinator with Be Local YYC, and Co-founder of GOT Foundation
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Colby Delorme
Imagination Group of Companies
As President of the Imagination Group of Companies, Colby Delorme has led ventures across construction, brand development, marketing, certification, franchise development, ceremonial tobacco manufacturing, and business consulting.
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Jeff Loomis
Momentum
Jeff works as the Executive Director of Momentum - a change-making organization that combines social and economic strategies to reduce poverty in Calgary. Momentum partners with people living on lower-incomes to get good jobs, create their own job through self-employment and save money to build their assets.
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Imagination Group
Colby Delorme is President of the Imagination Group of Companies and a Métis entrepreneur with experience spanning construction, brand development, marketing, certification, franchise development, tobacco manufacturing, and business consulting.
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