Meet our Greenpeace Board
Christy Ferguson, Executive Director
Christy has been with Greenpeace for 22 years, working her way up from her first role as a campaign assistant. She spent four years campaigning for greater forest protection, including a successful campaign to convince forestry giant Kimberly-Clark to adopt more sustainable practices, then shifted to head Greenpeace Canada’s Climate and Energy and Arctic campaigns where she oversaw Greenpeace’s work to stop destructive oil development, phase out nuclear power, and promote solutions for people and the climate. She became Director of Programs in 2014.
Ginger Gosnell-Myers, Board Chair
Ginger Gosnell-Myers is Nisga’a and Kwakwak’awakw, whose 20+ year career challenging colonial systems is creating new pathways for radical change. She is the first Indigenous Fellow with the Simon Fraser University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, where she focuses on Decolonization and Urban Indigenous Policy and Planning. She played an integral role in making Vancouver the world’s first official City of Reconciliation, which was an outgrowth of her work on the landmark Environics Urban Indigenous Peoples Study, the first comprehensive research of its kind in Canada. Ginger’s goal is to re-define government policies and industry processes, creating new standards that meet commitments to UNDRIP and the TRC 94 Calls to Action. She has a chapter in Sacred Civics (2022) titled “Co-creating the cities we deserve through Indigenous knowledge”, and has delivered a TedX Talk – ‘Canadian Shame: A History of Residential Schools’. Ginger became Chair of the Board in February 2023.
Josée Bertrand, Treasurer
Josée enthusiastically joined the Greenpeace Canada board in 2022. She brings 35+ years of experience in finance and operations management spanning a variety of industry sectors. She is currently a Principal with The Osborne Group where she has had the privilege of consulting and serving in interim or part-time positions for organizations like Crossroads International, Fred Victor Centre, Tennis Canada, the Rideau Hall Foundation, St. Joseph’s Hospital Centre Foundation, Madison Community, and The Aga Khan Museum.
Jill Rajewicz, Board Member
Jill Rajewicz (she/her) is a geographer, scientist and federal public servant. Throughout her professional life, she has worked in various capacities designing, implementing, and evaluating science and conservation projects, programs and policies in collaboration with Indigenous, community, academic, and government partners in both the public service and ENGO spaces. She holds a Master of Science in Geography from Carleton University, Ottawa, with a focus on Arctic systems and environmental change in the Canadian High Arctic. Jill has served on a variety of non-profit boards and is dedicated to helping advance Greenpeace’s science-based and solutions-oriented work. Originally from Calgary, and having spent time living in Ottawa and Iqaluit, Jill is currently based in Thunder Bay, on the traditional territory of the Fort William First Nation.
Ian Capstick, Board Member
Ian Capstick is a social entrepreneur, political strategist, and storyteller. His early career in politics allowed him to travel the country extensively, learning to listen to folks and work step by step to solve problems. After founding his first company, he spent eight seasons as a contributor to CBC’s flagship political program Power & Politics. Outside of politics, he has managed communications for top Canadian corporations, major unions and well known Canadians and media-figures. He is currently the Chief Impact & Communications Officer at Animikii, an Indigenous technology company. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania’s Centre for Social Impact Strategy (2017), Ian returned to the program as a Teaching Fellow (2018-2020). He graduated from the University of Guelph’s Horticulture program in summer 2023.
Anna Crawford, Board Member
Anna is a glaciologist and lecturer based at the University of Stirling. Her work focuses on the break-up of glaciers and ice shelves, as well as the icebergs generated by these events. She previously held a Leverhulme Early Career fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and a postdoctoral research position at the University of St Andrews. Anna began volunteering with Greenpeace in 2009 and joined the Board in 2015 after leading volunteer campaigns and local groups in Thunder Bay and Ottawa-Gatineau. Anna served as Greenpeace Canada’s Board Co-Chair from 2017 to 2020 and as Chair from 2020 to 2023.
Diego Creimer, Board Member
Diego Creimer studied physics, film, fine arts, journalism and public relations. He worked in film production in his native Argentina before moving to Quebec in 1999, where he worked for six years as a journalist for CBC / Radio-Canada International. Passionate about the environment and social struggles, he has held various positions since 2012 as an employee, manager and board member in Canadian and Quebec environmental NGOs, including Greenpeace and the David Suzuki Foundation. Since 2021, he has led three major projects at the Société pour la nature et les parcs (SNAP Québec): A pilot program for the implementation of nature climate solutions in municipal settings, a project to research local biodiversity indicators for Quebec institutional investors in collaboration with Fondaction, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the University of Sherbrooke, and an eco-taxation project applied to nature climate solutions with the École nationale d’administration publique, the Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement and the cities of Varennes and Victoriaville. Diego is also interested in sustainable forestry, creative writing and sailing.
Am Johal, Vice Chair
Am Johal is Director of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and Co-Director of SFU’s Community Engaged Research Initiative. He is author of Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene and co-author with Matt Hern and Joe Sacco of Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale. He has taught courses in Graduate Liberal Studies, Contemporary Arts and the Semester in Dialogue at SFU. He is host of the Below the Radar podcast.
Tarek Loubani, Board Member & Greenpeace International trustee
Tarek Loubani is an emergency physician at the London Health Sciences Centre (Canada), an Associate Scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute and an Associate Professor at Western University. His research and work focus on health equity and global health, especially in low resource settings such as rural Canada and low- and middle-income countries. Tarek’s passion for environmental justice has long been intertwined in his human rights and health equity work. This passion brought him to Greenpeace Canada with the goal of working on combating the climate emergency.
