Our team comprises staff and members of the Board of Directors who live in a variety of communities and bring diverse perspectives, experiences, education, and expertise to their work in support of local governments and Indigenous communities.
CEA Staff

Jenna Annett
Understands workforce challenges in rural contexts, and applying this to engage the building sector in upskilling for deep energy retrofits.

Kelsey Bartha
All things finance for CEA, ensuring that projects are financially viable and financial reporting is efficient and on time

Patricia Bell
Long term leadership in coaching and education, currently guiding Indigenous engagement, with deep knowledge of urban revitalization, land use planning, and sustainable development.

Amanda Breuer
The go-to for contract negotiations, project controlling and administrative support across the organization.

Rachel Buskie
Leads built environment projects to create capacity and support the transformation of the building sector at regional and local levels.

Mariah Byers
Here to guide you through our Retrofit Assist program – from initial interest through to installation and applying for and receiving rebates.

Gaëtane Carignan
Building energy performance expert including applying Energy Step Code in rural, cold climates. Deep knowledge of all things food systems and organic waste.

Mark Castonguay
Provides support for administrative, financial and research aspects of projects as well as facilitating communication across the organization.

Sally Childs
The polish and the paint of all CEA documents, communications, branding, and design.

Maya Chorobik
Leads Climate Leadership programming with elected officials, designer of peer networks, information systems, and strategic collaboration across local, regional, and provincial levels.

Trevor Chow-Fraser
Using words and visuals to mobilize our membership and foster engagement with climate action.

Rebecca Cuttler
Connects CEA projects with Sustainable Communities programming.

Marianne Doehler
Digging in to the digital systems, software, databases, and GIS mapping systems and evaluating which will work best for CEA.

Greg Dong
All things emissions modelling, all things inventories with a passion for helping ground CEA solutions in data.

Dr. Ali Ergudenler
All things policy and planning, providing communities with solutions that are backed by science and grounded in reality of local governments.

Amanda Evans
Responsible for leading the implementation of the dynamic and growing Retrofit Assist Program. Responsibilities include engaging with partner communities, overseeing the program delivery and expansion, and participating in strategic development.

Jen Grebeldinger
Leads all things communications at CEA, grounding strategies in social science and climate communications theory.

Emma Gregson
Keeps staff and projects running effectively and efficiently, and lead project controller – supporting internal systems.

Andrea Hedley
Guides CEA’s public and stakeholder engagement strategy, supporting dialogue, collaboration and networks for advancing low carbon communities.

Sunshine Jarvis
Supports the meaningful education and sustainable implementation of low-carbon transportation initiatives across municipal and indigenous communities.

Carly Johansson
All things implementation of engagement, making technical information captivating, zoom meetings exciting, and complex projects run smoothly.

Janice Keyes
Community engagement and graphic facilitation expert with a focus on Indigenous community engagement.

Andrew King
Supports Municipal and Indigenous Governments to decarbonize their transportation sectors, leading projects which bring together multiple stakeholders, experts, and members of the public to achieve resilient solutions.

CaroleAnn Leishman
Supporting elected officials in local governments to be leaders in Climate Action achieving community resiliency and carbon emission reduction goals through resource sharing and collaboration with other partners.

Kate Letizia
Strategic planner and policy designer accelerating climate leadership in AB with a focus on municipal tool design and dissemination, and peer-network development.

Dale Littlejohn
Builds stability for the organization to allow for bold action that is passion driven yet relentlessly pragmatic.

Megan Lohmann
A visionary leader who builds relationships and multi-stakeholder collaborations to maximize impact for GHG reductions and community benefits.

Lisa Mak
Connecting dots and people; supporting local governments to increase adoption and participation in their turnkey projects like Retrofit Assist.

Jessica Martin-Thompson
Leads complex built environment projects that will transform the building sector and create capacity at regional and local levels.

Katherine McDougall
Go to Katherine for all data needs: energy & emissions inventories, modelling, analysis, research and reporting.

Abisola Odeyemi
Deploys HR initiatives to connect staff to our core mission and maintain a culture of trust, empowerment and compassion.

Katherine Pearce
Informing peer networks with theory and a lens of regional collaboration, supporting collaborative implementation in the Vancouver Island and Coast region.

Laura Cooper PhD
Laura has had a lifelong interest in the intersection of human-nature relationships, health and environmental conditions.

Toby Quantrell
Contributes towards transportation strategies that empower communities to achieve emission reduction goals.

Brittany Ratay
Administrative support that helps senior leadership move quickly and effectively.

Peter Robinson
“You can’t manage what you don’t measure”, so Peter dives into the data for modelling and strategizing high impact climate actions in 54+ CEEPs.

Tami Rothery
Leads innovation in built environment programming and applies deep knowledge of holistic solutions that are both bold and pragmatic.

Lyla Samuels
Brings CEA back to the fundamentals to make sure we meet our financial obligations and maintain trust as a non-profit

Ceirra Sarazin
Cross functional support including research, communications, and administrative processes.

Sam Sedlowsky
Builds and maintains all the tools and systems that allow local government staff to connect, share and learn from each other.

Jude Smith
The strategic communications thinker for the communications team designing marketing, media and online campaigns to enable impact.

Anna Sterankova
Produces analytics of the organization’s finances and forecasting and supports project managers in financial reporting to clients and funders and other related project control functions.

Kacia Tolsma
Systems-thinking planner with a focus on accelerating strategic climate action and low carbon resilience in Alberta.

Kathryn Trnavsky
Supporting peer network and climate leadership programming in solutions that allow for co-creation, youth engagement, equity and justice.

Rob van Adrichem
Amplifies the work of staff in order to encourage the widespread adoption of climate solutions, positions CEA as a leader in community-based climate action, and facilitates collaboration among northern and resource-based communities.

Robbert Visscher
Leads the administrative team at CEA and the upgrade of systems and processes to accommodate future growth of the organization.

Danielle Wiess
Leads transportation initiatives with a passion for ideas that are collaborative and make it easy and safe for everyone to use low carbon transportation.
CEA Board of Directors

Marylyn Chiang

Emily Lewis

Rik Logtenberg

John Madden

Anna Mathewson

Melanie McCollum

Ken Porter

Scott Sinclair

Robyn Wark
