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, and Executive Director in 2019.
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.
Jo Rolland, Board Member
Jo is a senior operations and technology leader with over 25 years of experience driving digital transformation, organizational development, and complex change across the non-profit, retail, e-commerce, and financial services sectors. She is currently a consultant supporting purpose-driven organizations to amplify their impact through transformational change and previously held a senior leadership role at the David Suzuki Foundation. With academic studies in Organizational Development, Ecology and Conservation, and Chemistry, Jo brings systems-thinking, a strong grounding in environmental issues, and a lifelong commitment to social and environmental justice to Greenpeace Canada’s mission for bold, systemic change.
Jan Reimer, Board Member
Jan was excited to join the Greenpeace Canada board in June, 2025. She brings a lifetime of experience in activism, politics and women’s issues that she hopes to use to achieve the Greenpeace vision of a green and peaceful future. Jan has been recognized as a trailblazer in women’s political leadership and public service in Alberta, serving first as an Edmonton city councillor and then as the city’s first and only woman mayor. As mayor she introduced Edmonton’s recycling and waste reduction strategies, and was a strong advocate for preserving and protecting Edmonton’s river valley and watershed. For decades, she has advanced the rights of women and children by making long-term societal change in the critical struggle against gender-based violence. She served as executive director of the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters from 2001 to early January, 2025 and was a founding member of both the Canadian and Global Networks of Women’s Shelters. She has received many awards, was recognized as an Edmontonian of the Century, and has a park and school named after her.
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.
