Kate Kehler

Biography:

KATE KEHLER has been Executive Director of the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg since 2015 and serves on the council of Immigration Partnership Winnipeg, which the Social Planning Council hosts. She came to the Council from the John Howard Society of Manitoba, where she was Assistant Executive Director. Earlier she was Executive Director of the Law Society of Nunavut in Iqaluit (2001 to 2003) and worked in Thompson, after an 18-year first career in theatre production and stage management.

At the John Howard Society of Manitoba she was Assistant Executive Director from 2009 and, from 2013, Acting Executive Director, and gained a deeper understanding of how poverty and barriers to social equity affect individuals, families and communities. Earlier she lived and worked in Canada's North: she was Executive Director of the Law Society of Nunavut in Iqaluit from 2001 to 2003, and in Thompson she worked on projects for Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, taught and ran her own business.

Kehler spent 18 years (1980 to 1998) as a production manager and stage manager with theatre companies in Ontario and on tour across Canada. She holds an honours BA in theatre from the University of Ottawa.

Sources: her LinkedIn profile; Social Planning Council of Winnipeg; Institute for Canadian Citizenship; Immigration Partnership Winnipeg.

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