Adam Baden-Clay Title: Kenya Trips Facilitator Interesting Fact: Born in Rhodesia, Adam has the dubious distinction of coming from a country that no longer exists. Email: adam@leaderstoday.com

Afton Eddy Title: International Trips Coordinator Interesting Fact: Afton enjoys belting out jazz and Broadway tunes into a wooden spoon. Email: afton@leaderstoday.com

Aimee Polonsky Title: O Ambassadors International Trips Coordinator Interesting Fact: Aimee’s first volunteer experience involved squeezing penguins between her knees and massaging their throats. Email: aimee@leaderstoday.com

Alex Apostol Title: Special Projects Consultant Interesting Fact: Legend has it that Alex, wily and clever, crafted most of the jokes hidden in our curriculum. Email: alex@leaderstoday.com

Ali Clemmensen Title: Life in Action Facilitator Interesting Fact: Passionate about learning languages, Ali can count to 100 in French, Italian, Ukrainian and Amharic. Email: ali@leaderstoday.com

Amanda Baine Title: Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Coordinator Interesting Fact: She is a lead singer in a hip hop band, and owns her own sailboat! Email: amanda@leaderstoday.com

Annie Ly Title: China Development Coordinator Interesting Fact: Annie grows her hair out 10 inches or more every two years to donate to Locks of Love. Email: annie@leaderstoday.com

Bina Hwangbo Title: Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact:Once an aspiring actress, Bina was an extra in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Email: bina@leaderstoday.com

Brent Vernon Title: Life in Action Facilitator Interesting Fact: On a rainy day, you can find Brent performing the entire dance to Beyonce's “Crazy in Love.” Email: brent@leaderstoday.com

Brooke Thompson Title: Kenya Program Director Interesting Fact: A go-getter who apparently likes the number 9—after nine years at camp, she completed a nine-mile swim achieving a nine-year goal! Email: brooke@leaderstoday.com

Dan Mossip-Balkwill Title: Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact: Early in his university career, Dan received the nickname “Snuggles.” Much to his horror, it stuck. Email: dan@leaderstoday.com

Darren Tseng Title: Leadership Facilitator / Motivational Speaker Interesting Fact: Darren went to art school for more than five years, but still can’t colour inside the lines. Email: darren@leaderstoday.com

David Johnson Title: Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact: David once travelled 300 kilometres by foot from Calgary to Edmonton to raise awareness about human rights violations in Darfur. Email: davidjohnson@leaderstoday.com

Dinesh Ramachandran Title: International Trip Facilitator Interesting Fact: Dinesh journeyed to Hawaii to farm and learn a self-sustainable lifestyle-sleeping next to an active volcano! Email: dinesh@leaderstoday.com

Emily Payne Title: Leadership Facilitator / Motivational Speaker Interesting Fact: Emily has held a wide range of odd jobs including: selling furniture, writing film scripts, pulling out invasive plants from local parks, shelving books and driving a golf cart at an airport. Email: emily@leaderstoday.com

Erin Blanding Title: Director of Leadership Programs, Arizona-Mexico Program Director Interesting Fact: Erin has a freakish love of manual labour and has spent countless hours stacking firewood, bailing hay, building schools and tool sheds, and pick-axing water holes in African soil. Email: erinblanding@leaderstoday.com

Garry Norman Title: Senior Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact:Our musician in residence, Garrry plays 10 different musical instruments. Guitar was his first and his latest passion is the tabla, which is an Indian hand drum. Email: garry@leaderstoday.com

Giustina D’Elia Title: Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact: Giustina once performed during the halftime show at a Toronto Argonauts game with York University’s cheerleading team.  Email: giustina@leaderstoday.com

Hilary Kilgour Title: BC Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact: In the last five years, Hilary has spent more than 6000 hours paddling on rivers across Canada as a whitewater canoe guide. Email: hilary@leaderstoday.com

Jackie Plessl Title: Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Coordinator Interesting Fact: A lover of dance, Jackie has taught everything from ballet to break-dancing! Email: jackie@leaderstoday.com

Janice Sousa Title: Director of International Trips Interesting Fact: A language buff, Janice is able to translate Hebrew, Latin and ancient Greek without breaking a sweat! Email: janice@leaderstoday.com

Jen Farkas Title: International Trips Coordinator Interesting Fact: Jen has a tricky parrot named Tika who has a sneezing habit and has recently learned how to fake a sneeze to get Jen to say “Bless you!” Email: jen@leaderstoday.com

Jesse Jewell Title: Leadership Coordinator & International Trips Facilitator Interesting Fact: Jesse has had several hair-raising encounters with grizzly bears while living in Alaska. Fortunately, he managed to deter them with firecrackers and a series of “Your fur is so brown…” jokes. Email: jesse@leaderstoday.com

Jon MacIndoe Title: International Travel Consultant Interesting Fact: While in high school, Jon hosted his own radio show called the Big Mac Hour at a local radio station. Email: jon@leaderstoday.com

Kevin Glowinski Title: Kenya Trip Facilitator Interesting Fact: Kevin is happy to walk many rugged kilometres through the woods with a canoe on his back—canoes are his first choice of transportation. Email: kevin@leaderstoday.com

Krystal Loverin Title: Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact: After being a competitive figure skater for nine years, Krystal Loverin won an essay contest and received the honour of skating for an afternoon with Canadian Olympic silver-medalist figure skater, Elvis Stojko. Email: krystal@leaderstoday.com

Long Le Title: Life in Action Facilitator Interesting Fact: Most people are unaware of Long's plan to organize the coolest, most tacky sweater party! His sweater will consist of flashing multi-coloured lights with 3-dimensional singing reindeers! Email: long@leaderstoday.com

Louise Kent Title: Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact: She can’t complain of a crooked back. While in Guyana Louise slept in a hammock for six whole months! Email: louise@leaderstoday.com

Matt Tod Title: Speaking and Leadership Facilitator Interesting Facts: As a camp counsellor, Matt had a game similar to dodge ball named after him—it was called “Tod’s Ball”. Email: matt@leaderstoday.com

Martin Rioux-Lefebvre Title: China Program Coordinator Interesting Facts: This young humanist shares his birthday with the Declaration of Human Rights. Email: martin@metowe.org

Megan Sullivan Title: International Trips Coordinator Interesting Facts: Megan started a school-wide food fight . . . by accident! Email: megan@leaderstoday.com

Mike Spagnolo Title: Leadership Facilitator Interesting Facts: To help pay for university, Mike worked for a promotions company where he was required to dress up as Tony the Tiger as well as model for Zellers Magazine! Email: mike@leaderstoday.com

Nicole Baden-Clay Title: Kenya Trips Facilitator Interesting Facts: Our travelling nurse, Nicole learned to scuba dive in the Red Sea when living and working in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Email: nicole@leaderstoday.com

Peter Ruhiu Title: Africa Projects Director Interesting Fact: Peter is an expert tracker and safari guide able to lead our youth safely through Kenya’s Masai Mara without so much as a scratch. Email: peter@leaderstoday.com

Renée Hodgkinson Title: Chief Operations Director, Leaders Today Interesting Fact: Renée is careful to find a balance in life. She trains yearly for duathlons and captures the wonders of nature with a paint brush and canvas. Email: director@leaderstoday.com

Roxanne Joyal Title: Special Projects Consultant Interesting Fact: In January 2000, Roxanne was selected by Maclean's magazine as one of the “Top 100 people to watch out for in the Millennium” Email: roxannejoyal@hotmail.com

Sally Hakim Title: Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact: In 2007, Sally received the Youth in Motion Top 20 under 20 Award for demonstrating exceptional leadership within her community and worldwide. Email: sally@leaderstoday.com

Sarah Wetmore Title: Leadership Facilitator Interesting Fact: With only five minutes of notice, Sarah was asked to address 2,000 students about stopping violence against women…and she did it! Email: sarah@leaderstoday.com

Scott Baker Title: Ecuador Program Director Interesting Fact: During his university years, Scott had an unusual, but fun, summer job—keeping Canada geese off a family estate. A pacifist, he convinced them to move along by quacking like a duck! Email: scott@leaderstoday.com

Shelby Pearce Title: Leadership Facilitator, Speaker Interesting Fact: Shelby looks to create awareness about HIV/AIDS in any public place she can. Email: shelby@leaderstoday.com

Spencer West Title: Tour Speaker Interesting Fact: Spencer is known for Italian cooking, cartwheels, handstands and bird impressions. Email: spencer@leaderstoday.com

Stefanie Tan Title: Leadership Coordinator Interesting Fact: Stefanie once tried to master the art of coconut harvesting in Cuba. Email: stefanie@leaderstoday.com