Board Members

Current Board of Directors:

• Joan Little, Board Chair

• Fiona Audy, Vice-Chair

• Wendy Dale, Treasurer

• Michele McShane, Director

• Miyoko Rasmussen, Director

• Lenore Kilmartin, Secretary

Board Committees for 2010

• Nominations and Board Development, Chair: Miyoko Rasmussen

• By-Laws & Policies, Chair: Michele McShane

• Finance, Chair: Wendy Dale

• Human Resources, Chair: Michele McShane

   

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Board of Directors' Biographies

Joan Little
Board Chair

Joan has been married since 1972 and is a mother to four adult children. Since her accreditation as a Leader in 1983, she has worked at the Group, Chapter and Area levels and has served as a District Advisor, Associate Coordinator of Leader Accreditation and Coordinator of Leader Accreditation.

Joan has been an active member of her community, volunteering for School Councils, her Community Association, the local Scout group and her children's soccer association. In this capacity she has attended numerous workshops on funding and board development held by the City of Calgary, the Calgary Board of Education and Scouts Canada.

Joan, now in her second term of office, joined the Board in March 2005.

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Wendy Dale
Treasurer

Wendy Dale, of Winchester, Ontario, has been a Leader with LLLC - Winchester Group since 1984. She has been District Advisor, Assistant Area Coordinator of Leaders and Area Coordinator of Leaders in Quebec and Eastern Ontario Area. She graduated in 1967 from Carleton University with a BA in Sociology joined the staff of the Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at the Royal Ottawa Hospital where she trained and worked as Child Care Worker and Child Care Supervisor.

Wendy also worked for the Girl Guides of Canada, Ontario Council as Administrative Assistant to the Program and Public Relations Committees.Wendy has been a volunteer with the Girl Guides of Canada for over 40 years. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Dundas County Hospice. She is also Secretary of the Winchester United Church Pastoral Charge Worship Committee.

Wendy and her husband Bert Hill have four children Meredith(1976); Gabriel (1979)(Robin); Jordan(1981) and Alanna(1985).

Wendy joined the Board in February 2006.

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Fiona Audy
Secretary

Fiona Audy has been a Leader since February 1984. She is married to Michel and has four adult children and two grandchildren.

Fiona has led meetings in Sherwood Park, Alberta since her accreditation and, since 2002 has also led a La Leche League Canada Group for teen mothers at Braemar School in Edmonton Alberta. Since becoming a Leader she has held numerous Leader support positions within La Leche League including; District Advisor, Area Coordinator of Leaders, Administrator of the Leader Department, Area Conference Supervisor, Conference Department Administrator, and Associate Coordinator of Leader Accreditation. She has taken part in La Leche League Canada development workshops on strategic planning, program evaluation and social marketing as well as workshops on fundraising for the non-profit sector.

She is employed as an Infusion Administrative Coordinator and has volunteer commitments to other organizations and the Baha'i Faith.

Fiona joined the Board in October 2006.

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Michele McShane
Director

Michele has been a Leader since March 2001, starting in Sussex, New Brunswick, but is now co-Leading meetings in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She also helps lead drop in sessions at the IWK Children's Hospital. She has held the Area positions of District Advisor, and Area Coordinator of Leaders for Atlantic Canada.

Michele has been married to her husband Pat since 1990, and has 3 daughters, Isabelle and Sophie (1997), and Stella (2005). She works as a Registered Nurse on a Cardiology Intermediate Care Unit at present.

Michele joined the Board in January 2009.

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Miyoko Rasmussen
Director

Miyoko and her husband Len have been married since 1996, and have 3 children: Graham (2001), Emi (2004) and Mika (2007). Miyoko became a Leader in 2003 in Deep River, ON, and is presently residing in Pinawa, MB, where she co-leads meetings. She has served as a District Advisor and as a local coordinator for Health Professional Seminar. She graduated with B. Sc. in Chemistry in 1994 from Simon Fraser University. From 1994 until the birth of her son in 2001, Miyoko worked as a Research Technologist at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) at Whiteshell Laboratories in Pinawa and at Chalk River Laboratories in Chalk River, ON.

Miyoko has been actively involved as a board member at her children’s pre-schools and the school’s Parent Advisory Council. She is also involved in Pinawa Early Childhood Development Committee, and at her local church.

Miyoko joined the Board of Directors in January 2010.

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Lenore Kilmartin
Secretary

Lenore has been a Leader since 1985 when her first child was two years of age. She is mother to five children, grandmother to two, and wife to Brian. Although she took some time away from leadership while caring for her mother during an extended time of illness, she reactivated her leadership when her grandson was born after attending meetings with her daughter-in-law. She realized how much she missed being a Leader and especially appreciates La Leche League's unique perspective on mothering through breastfeeding. Lenore has been a District Advisor and Area Co-ordinator of Leader Accreditation for Central and Southern Ontario. She has helped with conferences and Leader days and looks forward to continuing her active involvement on both the Group level and as a Board member. Her paid employment as a certified labour, birth and postpartum doula is greatly enhanced by what she has learned over the past twenty-seven years as both a Leader and a mother. Lenore is a member of the Halton Baby Friendly Initiative and is excited to see the positive results of her La Leche League Group's breastfeeding drop-in and prenatal breastfeeding classes. She looks forward to serving La Leche League Canada in ways that will help ensure its future availability to the next generation of mothers and babies.

Lenore joined the Board in 2009.

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