Louise Brownlee, GASP Co-chair and Melissa Tervit, GASP Social Media and Website Co-ordinator
Working for a Kinder Society
"All of us as citizens and as individual human beings have an obligation to be involved, to be as well informed as we can, to be open minded, to listen and think critically to challenge our own biases and to try in the end to work for a kinder society." Quotation from Arthur Schafer, Canadian ethicist and Founding Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba.
Louise Brownlee and Melissa Tervit will be speaking about their participation in the organization GASP (Grand(M)others Act to Save the Planet).
Louise Brownlee
Louise Brownlee has been a GASP Co-chair since 2023. She has also been a member of CFUW Oakville since 1991. She has a degree in biology and an MBA from Queen’s University. As well as spending time with her grandchild, she volunteers her time with Oakvillegreen and the Oakville Community Foundation. As well, she is a board member of the Halton Environmental Network.
Melissa Tervit
Melissa Tervit is the Communications Chair for GASP. Melissa is a retired teacher who is a passionate environmentalist, a mom, a small business owner, educator, energy transition nerd, climate change communicator, community mobilizer, equestrian, and skier.