Board of Directors

Inter Pares is governed by a board of thirteen directors who contribute their time and expertise to our social justice work.

Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, a Tuareg (Indigenous) woman from Timbuktu, Mali, is a trained doctor, activist, and educator. A former president of the United Nation Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), Mariam is engaged in research and governance within Indigenous-led organizations related to rights, biodiversity, and health.

Dr. Ranjan Datta is a Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary. Alberta, Canada.

Sarah Hedges-Chou is an Ottawa-based activist passionate about reproductive justice and labour rights. She is a founding member of the Ottawa Abortion Doula Collective and longtime volunteer at Planned Parenthood Ottawa.

Beth Jordan is a management consultant based in Toronto and Barbados.  As a social justice activist, she has deep roots in gender, LGBTI and racial equality movements.

Michael Manolson (Treasurer) is an organizational change consultant.

Deepa Mattoo (Chair) is an award-winning lawyer and intersectional feminist whose work is rooted in equity and anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice.

Shree Mulay is a women's health activist and professor at Memorial University, Newfoundland.

Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah is an award-winning Black feminist activist with over eight years of local and international advocacy experience through various initiatives in the Ottawa-Gatineau region.

Odelle Pike grew up in a strong Mi’kmaq family in St. George’s, NL. She is President of the Newfoundland Aboriginal Women’s Network, founder of the Bay St. George Cultural Circle, and a respected Elder, teacher, mentor and advocate for rebuilding Mi’kmaq communities.

Amanda Wilson is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. Her areas of research include food movements and carceral food systems, collective organizing, and questions related to prefiguration and enacting a politics of possibility.

Barbara Wood is a British Columbia-based social justice activist with a strong commitment to Indigenous peoples, women’s rights and gender equity.