OUR TEAM
Marlo Turner Ritchie is a consultant working with non-profits, coops and public sector teams. She has over seventeen years experience in leadership of non-profits - as a manager and as a volunteer on Boards of Directors. Former Executive Director of Head & Hands, she has an in-depth knowledge of the needs of local youth and families and has experience with program development and evaluation, partnership management, fundraising, human resources management and direct service provision. She is a founding member of the NDG Art Hive and former Coordinator of this innovative community arts project.
Coordinator
MARLO TURNER RITCHIE
Ruth is an art educator with a BFA in studio arts from Concordia University and many years of community organizing experience. She has been a member of the NDG Art Hive collective since 2015 and was the Facilitator in 2016-2017 and then Coordinator in 2018. She is passionate about community art and social change and is also a lunchtime monitor at Willingdon school in NDG. Ruth has been a resident of NDG for over 30 years and is bilingual and comfortable and skilled when it comes to working with a diversity of people.
Coordinator
RUTH BOOMER
Melanie Stuy has worked as a Course Lecturer at the McGill University School of Continuing Studies in the Language and Intercultural Communication Program since 1999, and has been nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award. Melanie is also an accomplished multi-media artist and community activist. Not only has her work been exhibited in several Montreal galleries, but she was also the initiator and artistic director of NDG’s first Homespun Parade. She is one of the driving forces behind such community initiatives such as the NDG Art Hive and the Haunted Melrose Tunnel. She has recently completed a large-scale mosaic mural entitled “The Roots of St. Raymond’s”.
Coordinator
MELANIE STUY
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Lindsay Fleming completed her degree in Honours Psychology at McGill University in 2001. Following graduation, she worked as a camp counselor at a residential camp for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. In subsequent summers, she served as Arts and Crafts Director, Nature Director, and eventually Assistant Camp Director. Lindsay obtained her MA in Child and Youth Studies from Mount Saint Vincent University in 2011 while working as a research coordinator and psychometrist at the IWK’s Autism Research Centre in Halifax, NS. She’s currently a research assistant at McGill University, studying the neuroscience of music, empathy, and aging.
FACILITaTOR AND VOLUNTEER
LINDSAY FLEMING
Charlotte (@jailli) is a nineteen-year-old photographer, graphic designer and drawer from Montreal who is currently finishing her studies in Studio Arts, Media, and Communication. She is a freelancer in drawing and photography, which was initiated on Instagram on her account ''@jailli'', through which she works with startup brands, companies who wish to create promotional content, and on psychology or creation-based projects. She views the experimentation with the mixture of art and psychology as her Personal Legend, as Paulo Coelho would’ve called the goal that gives a purpose to our lives in society. Charlotte has always put the focus of her creative process on the duality between storytelling, critical thinking, psychology, and writing, as an ensemble, and her other mediums of preference: photography, drawing, and graphic design.
Social Media Manager & Content Creator
CHARLOTTE
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Art Hive Manager
SOPHIE
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Marnie Aflalo has a BFA Specialization in Art Education from Concordia University. She has been working with children and families for almost 20 years. She has experience working with adults and children who have developmental and physical disabilities and psycho/social challenges, working for several years at summer camps, daycares and at an Early intervention center. As an Early Childhood Educator, Marnie ran a bilingual playgroup for young children and their parents. Currently she co-coordinates and runs the Childcare Program at the Head and Hands Young Parents Program, where she has worked for 16 years. Here she works closely with her team to support at risk families.
COORDINATOR
MARNIE AFLALO
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FOUNDER
JOANNE PENHALE
Caroline Dick has a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University specializing in Political Science and Development. She has been an artist all her life and enjoyed knitting and crocheting at an early age. Caroline has been a member of the Cheap Art Collective since 2014 working on various puppet parades. Caroline has worked and volunteered for the NDG Art Hive as a Facilitator and Coordinator for the Benny Library Art Hive. She enjoys working with the public to produce simple creations from a wide range of materials particularly recycled items which she collects from a variety of sources for the workshops.
FACILITATOR AND VOLUNTEER
CAROLINE DICK
Jillian Witt is the Community Engagement Consultant for The Philanthropist, a journal dedicated to the nonprofit sector in Canada. Jillian has a Masters of Social Work from University of Toronto and has worked on a variety of community initiatives supporting youth, social justice and urban sustainability, and served on the board of the Laidlaw Foundation and Notre-Dame-des-Arts. Jillian currently serves on the steering committee for the Centre for Connected Communities, a new national initiative supporting community collaboration that puts residents first.
COORDINATOR
JILLIAN WITT
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FACILITATOR
NANCY COZIER
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