Manager
Action for Healthier Communities, Edmonton, AB
Expertise: Disinformation, Internet Cultures, Vaccine Hesitancy
With extensive experience in the public sector and academic sphere, Lisa Jane de Gara is a passionate and highly engaged leader. Currently, Lisa Jane is an impactful and driven people-manager at Action for Healthy Communities where she leads a team of ten over four worksites. Her current goal is to bring high-quality immigration and settlement services to small towns throughout rural Alberta.
She is also a Sessional Lecturer with the University of Saskatchewan's Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy where she teaches policy at the school where she herself learned the "tricks of the trade." As a scholar, her work on the internet and disinformation has brought her to the USA, Japan, and Lithuania - with hopefully more journeys to come.