Angelina Pelletier, Associate Director, Communities Building Youth Futures, Tamarack Institute
Angelina is the Associate Director, with Tamarack’s National Communities Building Youth Futures initiative. Over the years, Angelina has had the privilege to work with northern territorial and First Nation communities to apply collective impact theories into improving outcomes for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth who face systemic barriers as they pursue their secondary education and transition to adulthood. She has worked directly in her own community of Winnipeg (Treaty 1) and with communities across the country on their pursuit of healthy and equitable spaces for youth, while also supporting capacity and relationship building opportunities.
As a daughter, sister, auntie and mother, family is what grounds Angelina both in her work and identity and is her biggest motivator in building equitable communities.
Sylvia Cheuy, Consulting Director, Collaboration, Tamarack Institute
Sylvia Cheuy is Consulting Director, Collaboration with Tamarack’s Learning Centre. She is passionate about the power of place and what becomes possible when community and sector leaders unite around an aspirational vision for their shared future. Sylvia believes that the knowledge and wisdom of ordinary people is the single greatest untapped resource in the work of community change and that when these assets are recognized and connected, they become powerful drivers of community change.
Sylvia has been supporting local communities within the Communities Building Youth Futures national network since the project was launched in 2020 and has been inspired by the passion, creativity, and impact that has been mobilized in these communities to support young people to thrive.