Core Staff

KWIC Media Liaison:  Yolanda Ajak.

KWIC Youth Outreach Liaison: Lhazin Yangzom Nedup.  

KWIC Community Outreach Liaison: Mediah Alam.

Resource Centre Coordinator: Erin Hartmans.

Nogojiwanong Watershed Ed. (Blue Water) Facilitator: Glen Caradus. Glen is an experienced outdoor educator, musician and puppeteer, who on any given day might be found at Ecology Park, Ptbo Green Up (Captain Climate), Camp Kawartha, the Canoe Museum or the new Camp Kawartha Sustainability Centre (to name a few of his favourite spots)! Nogojiwanong is the first collaboration between KWIC and the Paddling Puppeteers! To find out more about the Paddling Puppeteers or to book a Watershed Ed workshop for your group, contact Glen at paddlingpuppeteers.com

KWIC Coordinator: Julie Cosgrove. Julie joined KWIC in 2003 as an exciting opportunity to connect a decade + of social justice work, volunteer engagement and project mangement, experience living/working in the West Indies, North Africa and the Canadian Arctic, with her new life in Peterborough. What she enjoys most is getting connected with and learning from all the amazing people that gather through KWIC, bringing their passion and ideas. (oh - and good food!). She is especially mindful of the urgent need to preserve the integrity of this amazing and interconnected life system we call Earth for her beautiful son and children everywhere.

Julie completed her Honours B.A. at Waterloo University (Co-op Program), B. ED. at York and a Community-based International Development Program, specializing in Participatory Approaches at the COADY International Institute (St. Xavier University) in Nova Scotia.

You can reach Julie at kwic@trentu.ca.

Youth Animator: Sarah Dykeman. Sarah joined KWIC in 2011 after graduating and being completely ready to leave the formal education system. She is surprised to find herself back at at university, but enjoying her role at exploring alternative and popular education formats as medium to engage with youth on social and environmental justice issues. Her past experiences include using visual arts to  capture street-involved youth voices, exploring poverty issues through theatre with youth in highschools and collaboratively programming a Global Citizenship Conference in Hamilton, Ontario.

Sarah cmopletely all her formal academic training at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where she has a Bachelor of Health Sciences degree and a Minor in Art History from where she focused on using arts a method to engage with social change, as well as a Master's Degree in Health Geography where she conducted research on knowledge translation and informal caregiver support in hospice palliative care.

You can reach Sarah at youth@kwic.info.

Book Keeper: Michael Goede has brought experience and expertise to KWIC’s financial management systems since 2008. For more information or to contact Michael at New Leaf Business Services: newleaf222@gmail.com