STAFF

Administrator – Mary Bennett  mary@cacv.ca

Mary began working for CACV in fall of 2008 and has enjoyed her role of building communications, supporting the board of directors and increasing volunteer engagement. She recently added Coordinator of the Downtown Eastside Community Arts Fund (DECAF) to her role.

Mary previously worked for 8 years as the Executive Director of the Canadian Unitarian Council and before that had a career in organizational consulting and teambuilding facilitation.

Mary has a B.Ed. with a major in art education. She is a practising visual artist exhibiting as part of the annual Artists in Our Midst in Vancouver’s westside. She has designed a teambuilding workshop called “Just Scribble” which includes exercises based on children’s art making.

Mary enjoys social media and you can meet her at our social network http://communityarts.ning.com or at her own website http://marybennett.net.

Creative Pathways Coordinator – Sita Kumar  sita@cacv.ca

Sita served on the board of CACV from 2008-2010 and President from November, 2009 to April, 2010, stepping down to take on this staff role with the new Public Realm project.

After studying at Laval, Edinburgh and McGill, Sita recently graduated from Emily Carr in photography. She has worked freelance and with the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada, had a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and worked with Video In and the New Forms Festival. As an artist she has shown her work in numerous shows and has a number of publications to her name.

From 1995-97,  Sita was the administrator for the Women of Colour Collective in Calgary.

She currently also works part time for the Vancouver Public Library. Sita lives in Mount Pleasant.

Bookkeeper – Feri Dehdar   feri@cacv.ca