Board

The current board members are:

Steve Anderson

Steve Anderson is the national coordinator for OpenMedia.ca (Formally called Campaign for Democratic Media). He is a contributing author of Censored 2008 and Battleground: The Media and has written for The Tyee, Toronto Star, Epoch Times, Common Ground, Rabble.ca and Adbusters.

Michael Lithgow

Michael Lithgow is a long-time community television advocate and organizer from Vancouver, now living in Montreal. He was one of the founding directors of ICTV on the West Coast and a former member of the Cue Up collective at Video In. He is currently a PhD student at Carleton University.

David Robinson

David Robinson is the associate executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, representing academic and general staff across the country. Currently, he also serves as a consultant to Education International, a global union federation representing more than 30 million teachers and education workers in 171 countries and territories.

Prior to joining CAUT in 1999, David was the senior economist with the Vancouver office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canada’s leading progressive think-tank. He has also been a lecturer at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and Carleton University in Ottawa. He was the founding coordinator of the Canadian Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom.

Leslie Regan Shade

Leslie Regan Shade is an Associate Professor at Concordia University in the Department of Communication Studies. Since the mid 1990s, her research has focused on the social, policy and ethical aspects of information and communication technologies, with particular concerns towards issues of gender, globalization and political economy. Her research contributions straddle the line between academic and non-academic audiences, including policymakers and non-profit groups. Leslie is the author of Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet (Peter Lang 2002) and co-editor of Feminist Interventions in International Communication (with Katharine Sarikakis, Rowman & Littlefield 2008), as well as the author of numerous other publications. She is the former president of the Canadian Communication Association and the former editor of Computers and Society. Leslie is also the editor of a CCPA book For Sale to the Highest Bidder: Telecom Policy in Canada, and a Director at Media Action.

David Skinner

David Skinner an Associate Professor in Communication Studies at York University in Toronto. Previously, he was the founding chair of the Bachelor of Journalism at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. He has written a number of articles on media reform, alternative media, and traditional media in Canada and the United States and is co-editor of Converging Media, Diverging Interests: A Political Economy of News in the United States and Canada (Lexington Books, 2005). Most recently he is co-author on the sixth edition of Mass

Karen Wirsig

Karen Wirsig is the communications co-ordinator for the Canadian Media Guild and is based in Toronto. Previously, she was a print reporter focused on municipal affairs, and a planner with the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto. She has also been involved in community media projects.