Stewards

President

Annette Bouzi

Annette was elected President of Local 415 in March 2020. She has been an active steward in our Local since 2015, serving on a variety of committees of our union at both the local and provincial levels.

First Vice-President

Judy Puritt

Judy is a communications professor and English Coordinator in the School of Business. She has been a steward for over 10 years. In addition, she is the outgoing Local Secretary, First Vice-President, a member of the Workload Monitoring Group (WMG), and Annual Leave Working Group. She remains current on various committees and participates in province-wide meetings and initiatives.

Second Vice-President

Ala’ Qadi

Second Vice-President of Local 415, Ala’ teaches at the Woodroffe campus in the Electrical Engineering Program. He has been an active steward since 2017, after which he took on a leading role in the Local Mobilizing Team and in organizing social connection events with the membership. Ala’ has served on numerous selection committees as a union representative and has been an alternate for CAAT-A Divisional Executive since 2020. He believes that power is member-based which requires active and engaged local and provincial representation of member concerns.

CHIEF STEWARD, DIV EX REP

Tracy Henderson

Tracy teaches in Nursing and has been a union steward since 2015. An active member of the Local, she is currently serving provincially on the CAAT-A Divisional Executive (DivEx). She is also a member of the Workload Monitoring Group (WMG) and the Psychological Health & Safety Committee. Tracy is experienced in serving members with Accommodation/Return to Work issues and has assisted partial-load members with issues around salary and the partial-load registry. She served as Acting Chief Steward in 2017-2018.

SECRETARY, PL LIAISON REP

Martin Lee

Martin is the Local 415 Secretary, a professor of Biochemistry, a coordinator of Regulatory Affairs, and a steward. He is on the Workload Monitoring Group (WMG) and is the Partial-Load Liaison steward. He works on building the data which drives the Local and brings an equity lens to the voice of the membership. He participated in the Local Mobilizing Team, served as a picket captain in the 2017 strike, and is representing 415 in the Bargaining Advisory Committee for our 2021 Collective Bargaining Process.

Treasurer

Shawn Pentecost

Shawn is a coordinator (General Arts and Science, General Education) and professor at the Pembroke campus. Shawn is our Local Treasurer and represents the local on the Strategic Exercise to Restore Financial Sustainability. He has sat on several provincial committees including the Divisional Executive, and 2017 and 2021 Bargaining Teams.

Sharleen Conrad-Beatty

Sharleen has been a Local 415 steward for about 5 years. In this role, she has supported members via formal meetings, CESC, informal chats, picket captain (chances R 7-11) police liaison, hiring committees, and most recently as part of the Accommodations team.

PROV INS REP

Landyn Blais

Landyn teaches at the Woodroffe campus and is a steward in Local 415.

LOCAL LINES ED

Jordan Berard

Jordan is a professor of communications and the Coordinator of the Communications courses for the ACCE/SAT areas. He also teaches in the Technical Writer graduate certificate program. He is a steward in Local 415 and the current editor of Local Lines.

Chinedu Mba

Chinedu is an English for Academic Purposes professor and program coordinator in Algonquin’s Language Institute. Chinedu has been working with internationally educated professionals and second language learners for nearly two decades.

Elisabeth von Moos

Elisabeth is a professor of mathematics in the School of Advanced Technology at the Woodroffe campus. She is also a steward in Local 415 and sits on the WMG as an alternate.

ACCOMM REP

Colette Garvin

Colette has been teaching at Algonquin College since March 2004 and currently teaches various courses in the School of Business. She is a steward and has provided union representation on Academic Hiring Committees, the College Engagement Committee, the SWF Committee, and acted as a 3rd Alternate for the CAAT-A Pre-Bargaining Conference for 2020-21 Academic Year.

Michael Nauth

Mike teaches at the Woodroffe campus and is a steward in Local 415.

Howard Kravitz

Howard teaches at the Woodroffe campus and is a steward in Local 415.

Sean Edwards

Sean teaches at the Woodroffe campus and is a steward in Local 415. Sean has been teaching Culinary at Algonquin College for 21 years and has been a steward for 2.

Jérôme Mizon

Jérôme is an ICT professor who has been at Algonquin since 1992. He coordinates the Web Development and Internet Application Program which he created. Jérôme holds a Masters of Applied Sciences from the University of Ottawa and an Engineering Degree from ENST Paris France.

ACCOMM REP

Maria Taylor

Maria is a Counsellor, became a steward in 2011, and has participated in several aspects of the Local. She was an Alternate for Convention in 2014 in Toronto, attended the CAAT-A Building Local Divisional Capacity Educational in 2016 in Kingston and was part of the Local Mobilizing Team (LMT) in 2017. She has sat on hiring committees, written articles for Local Lines, and supports the Counsellors.

Louise Boudreault

Louise teaches at the Woodroffe campus and is a steward in Local 415.

Kenneth Hill

Ken teaches at the Woodroffe campus and is a steward in Local 415.

Patsy Pyke

Patsy is a full-time professor in Recreation and Leisure Services in her 13th year at the College and a steward in the Local. The success of our students at Algonquin has always been her number one concern. “We can only be successful if we support each other and we work together, particularly in areas of social justice.”

Saif Terai

Saif teaches at the Woodroffe campus and has been a steward since 2019. His participation includes being part of the hiring committee and providing IT related ideas to the Union.

Stephen Murphy

Stephen is a professor with Academic Development and a steward in the local. In his role as a Curriculum Consultant, Stephen works closely with faculty in the creation of new programs as well as the modification of existing programs and to support faculty with general program quality overall.

Rebecca Wakelin

Rebecca is an Educational Developer in Learning and Teaching Service (LTS) and a steward in Local 415. In this role she teaches faculty about teaching, provides coaching to new and experienced faculty and leads various teacher training programs and initiatives aimed at promoting teaching excellence. She is passionate about advocating on behalf of all college educators for sustainable, effective faculty training and authors “The Educator Developer’s Corner,” an ongoing column in Local Lines.

Géraldine Dion St-Pierre

Géraldine is a communication professor who has been at Algonquin since 2012. She teaches Communication 5-6-7 in the Academic Upgrading program and has taught Computer Skills and Math at Algonquin as well. She also co-developed Communication 7: Communication for Degree Programs. She teaches workshops on academic writing for the library in addition to working at the Student Learning Centre as a writing coach. She started teaching in 2007 and has taught in Québec and Japan as well as Ontario. Géraldine holds a Bachelor of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Québec in Trois-Rivières and a Master’s Degree in English from Carleton University.

Ian Pineau

Ian Pineau here; recent appointee to the 415 Local Executive Committee (LEC) as a steward for the Pembroke Waterfront Campus. I joined the college community in August of 2002 as Coordinator & Faculty for the then new Outdoor Adventure Naturalist program. Having served in that/those roles and several others for the past twenty (20) years I have a reasonably long view on the relationship between the College and our OPSEU Local 415.

I live in Pembroke with my long-time life partner and wife, Diana Komejan who is a professional conservator and also teaches part time in the Applied Museum Studies program at the Ottawa Campus.

In my previous life I worked in a variety of roles and locations across Canada in Outdoor; Education Therapy; Guiding and Instruction. These various roles spanned the country from the East Coast (PEI & NB) through Ontario (Project DARE), to Yukon (Children’s Services) and into the US and Mexico (National Outdoor Leadership School). I have a Bachelors of Physical Education from the University of New Brunswick and a Masters in Educational Leadership from Charles Sturt University in Australia.

Among my primary interests in this role is to make whatever contribution I can to a mutually beneficial, professional and positive environment where all employees; and by extension students, thrive in their chosen field. To that end advancing the concepts of Sustainability; Reconciliation; Inclusion and Diversity are of particular interest. Not to mention a return to a more balanced faculty ratio of Full Time to Part Time employees.

Thank you and I look forward to working closely with all the members of the Local 415 Executive and to the good folks here at the Pembroke Campus please let me know if there is anything I can do for you in terms of representation and/or information. Stay Safe

Vinay-Réginald Kumar

Vinay-Réginald Kumar is a professor of mathematics in the School of Business.

Kim Bosch

Kim Bosch teaches Communications for the School of Hospitality and Tourism and has been working at the college for over a decade. She is passionate about writing and has published work on the arts, culture, and education in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and the New York Times. She is also the chief organizer of the Seedling for Students Bursary project which helps fund single-parent/caregiver students’ education through its annual plant sale.

Wayne Hawthorne

Wayne is a professor in the Music Industry Arts program with a background in technical entertainment and a P.Eng in Electrical Engineering.  Wayne is a steward in Local 415.

JOHS Rep

Judy Flieler

Gregory Mapp

David Haley

David has been a full-time professor since 1997. He is a Professor in the School of Advanced Technology.

Kerri-Lynn Weeks

I am a professor in nursing and have been with the Algonquin Pembroke Campus for 9 years. I am a part of the Joint Health and Safety Committe (JOHSC) and new to the role of Steward for the Pembroke campus. While I enjoyed my Master’s of Nursing program at the Charles Sturt University in Australia, being an alumnus of the Collaborative Algonquin College Bachelor of Science in Nursing program and now Algonquin faculty, I want to be a part of continuing to create the positive environment that I experienced in my undergraduate program. Creating a positive community of educators has a powerful effect on learners.

Mariella Di Bello

Mariella is a full time instructor in the Hairstyling Program at the Ottawa Woodroffe Campus.

Melissa Spears

Robert Chabassol

JOHS Rep

Tara Ettinger