Tony Boston has been an associate at Public Interest since 2003, and has 20 years’ experience in the field of community development in Toronto. Prior to beginning his consulting practice in 1996, he began his work in community development as a social worker in urban renewal projects in Scotland and then as a community organizer in the Regent Park neighbourhood.
Tony has always had a passion for improving the access of marginalized populations to appropriate services, a consistent theme in his work. He has also focused on community health in a range of settings, and his work in this area has involved research, education, consultation, and program and policy development.
Accomplishments:
- Tony’s work in Regent Park over many years has involved helping to form community linkages and developing appropriate service responses to the increasing diversity of the population.
- Most recently, as a project manager for the Action for Neighbourhood Change project in Scarborough Village, Tony has worked intensively with various ethno-cultural communities.
- He has conducted research, led strategic planning projects, initiated program and project development, and conducted large-scale public consultations for community groups, not-for-profit agencies, hospitals, foundations, and the City of Toronto.
