People of the Transportation Issues Committee

Staff (alphabetically by first name)

• Janet Barlow, Active and Safe Routes to School Coordinator
• Jennifer McGowan, Community Advisor, Active and Safe Routes to School
• Jen Powley, Our HRM Coordinator
  
• Stephanie Johnstone-Laurette, Travel Plan Facilitator for Cape Breton

Janet Barlow
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Active & Safe Routes to School Coordinator
902-442-5055

Janet joined EAC as Coordinator of Active & Safe Routes to School in 2002. An environmental educator at heart, Janet has worked for 15 years with a variety of Nova Scotian non-profit and governmental organizations. She is co-author of a trail activity book called Earth Adventures in the Halifax Region: 25 Nature Trails for Fun and Discovery, and runs Sense of Wonder Environmental Education. Janet has an honours degree in Biology as well as certificates in Adult Education and Community Economic Development & Fundraising.

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Jennifer McGowan
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Community Advisor, Active and Safe Routes to School

902-442-5055

Jennifer holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies, Geography from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in Development Studies from Dalhousie University.  She has worked with both the Ontario Ministries of Culture and Environment, and the Ontario Clean Water Agency, as a researcher, communications assistant and operator in training respectively.  Her love of teaching and outdoor education has also motivated her work as a supply teacher and YMCA outdoor sports camp organizer while in Ontario, and experiential learning program coordinator and teaching assistant for five different undergraduate courses, both in Canada and East Africa, during her time at Dalhousie.  In her role as Community Advisor for the Active and Safe Routes to School program at the Ecology Action Centre, Jennifer facilitates the delivery of the School Travel Planning and Making Tracks programs, which encourages more children, youth and their families to use active transportation – such as walking and cycling – for the betterment of the environment, and increased physical activity and traffic safety benefits.  In her spare time, she also loves Irish Dancing, eating blueberries and potatoes, and finding new places to hike around the province!

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Jen Powley
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Our HRM Coordinator
902-429-0924

Jen Powley started work as one of the two Sustainable Transportation Coordinators in April 2008. She is now EAC’s HRM Coordinator working on municipal issues. She has a Masters of land-use planning from Dalhousie. Powley is presently helping to coordinate the Our HRM Alliance, a collection of rural, urban, and suburban groups from environmental, financial, and social sectors that are all committed to make HRM a more liveable and more sustainable place. Before coming to the EAC, Powley worked to make communities and transportation networks more liveable for persons with disabilities.

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Stephanie Johnstone-Laurette
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Travel Plan Facilitator for Cape Breton

Stephanie has been involved in the Nova Scotia Active Transportation scene since 2007 working with local NGOs and committees, as well as various research projects.  She has now jumped on the EAC wagon as our School Travel Plan Facilitator for Cape Breton.   She’s intent on helping create communities that support safe, healthy, walkable & wheel-able environments for both younger and older generations (and the in-between ones too!)  Stephanie has a BA in Philosophy and is nearing the end of her Masters in Environmental Management from the University of London.  Her not-so-secret passions are leatherback sea turtles, digging dirt, and her super daughter, Oona.

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