03 . 11 . 2009
Tonya Surman joins Advisory Board
The S.W.A.P. Team is thrilled to announce the addition of new Advisory Board member Tonya Surman, Executive Director of Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation.
Raised by hippies, Tonya has been making peace signs and raising a ruckus since the day she was born. Her most recent ruckus is the Centre for Social Innovation. As founding executive director, Tonya imagines the Centre as space that sparks creativity, connectedness and fun. Before this, she channeled her overzealous optimism into a national coalition of organizations working on children’s environmental health, a social enterprise offering e-mail to activists and an edgy online news hub for Canadian progressives. Between these experiments in social entrepreneurship, Tonya has found the time to create a coop daycare, host chaotic street parties and create community gardens.
We welcome Tonya to our Advisory Board and look forward to collaborating with her!
