Lucia Harrison
Chief Executive Officer
Lucia Harrison (English, Dutch) Lucia has been the Chief Executive Officer for the Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre since 2006 and has been part of this organization since 2000. Originally from the Netherlands, she immigrated to Canada as a child with her family and became a Canadian Citizen in 1967. She studied business at Wilfrid Laurier University and Third World Studies at Conrad Grebel College. A fierce advocate for building a community of inclusion for everyone, she is the Past Chair and a current member of the Waterloo Region Immigration Partnership and Waterloo Region Refugee Resettlement Steering Committee. She has served on the boards of over 20 local and provincial organizations and agencies and currently sits on the board of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants and Youth In Conflict With The Law. In her rare (but occasional) spare time she likes to travel, cook and spend time with her grandchildren.
Email: lucia@luciaharrison.com
Tara Bedard
Executive Director of the Waterloo Region Immigration Partnership
Tara Bedard is Executive Director of the Waterloo Region Immigration Partnership. Tara has over a decade of experience working in the field of immigration, refugee rights and diversity in numerous capacities from researcher to senior management.
Email: tbedard@regionofwaterloo.ca
Ana Luz Martínez
Manager at the Local Immigration Partnership of Waterloo Region
Ana Luz Martínez has been working since 2003 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre, a community partner in the K-W city network of the Building Migrant Resilience in Cities partnership. She has played a leadership role in the Local Immigration Partnership of Waterloo Region, where she formerly chaired the Settling Action Group.
Ana Luz was born and raised in Guatemala, where she was studying health when the civil war led her to move to Mexico. There she completed a Bachelor’s of Education at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She immigrated to Canada with her family in 1994.
Email: analuz@kwmc-on.com
