Jill started working with Public Interest in 2007 and works as a consultant on progressive issues and campaigns. She is also currently chair of The Four Villages Community Health Centre in Toronto’s west end.
Accomplishments:
- As part of the Public Interest team, Jill most recently assisted in developing and organizing an Ontario-wide Sustainable Communities Form on behalf of the Columbia Institute for Civic Governance.
- Jill was our project lead on the Save Our Structures campaign, a campaign led by Toronto Community Housing tenants to pressure the provincial government to reassume its responsibility for backlogged capital repairs to public housing.
- Jill has managed election campaigns at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia. Her work helped a federal MP candidate and two MPP candidates successfully campaign for election.
- Jill was recruited as provincial secretary of the Ontario NDP in 1989 and later served as chief of staff to New Democratic Party leader Howard Hampton and secretary to the federal NDP.
Jill started her professional life in the health care field as a staffing manager in the nursing department at Toronto General Hospital. She later worked at the Ontario Federation of Labour as the founding coordinator of the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers.
Jill holds a Master of Arts in political science and a Master of Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto.
