Team

Director & Co-founder, Aeara

Ronald Sharpe is a Director and co-founder of AEARA, is a community organizer and advocate whose work has focused on challenging systemic racism and inequality in order to improve the material conditions of Black and racialized Canadians in the Atlantic Region.

In 2019 he accepted the role of the Atlantic Region Representative of the Federal Black Employee Caucus and supports Black employees in the Atlantic Region to address workplace anti-Black racism. He conceptualized the Investment in Black Talent Program (Atlantic Region) which is a career development program for Black public servants (to Managerial levels) and was Instrumental in the Development of the Building Black Leaders program (to Executive levels) within the Federal government.

He has been supporting sustainable change for equity and diversity in communities and the federal public servant for over 15 years.

Director & Co-founder, Aeara

Wasiu Adeoje, Director and co-founder of AEARA. Wasiu is a seasoned Architect, Project Management Professional, and a business entrepreneur with a wealth of experience in the construction / real estate industry. He brings his decades of experience to AEARA by helping to guide research, and provide creative solutions and ideas to support the economic inclusion of racially marginalized Canadians.

In 2015 Wasiu was awarded winner of the most innovative design by the Nigerian Institute of Architects for a project called Blue-Lakes, a sustainable housing project for an overpopulated community in Lagos State. He is currently a Property Assessor with Service New Brunswick.

Director & Co-founder, Aeara

Lisa-Gay Taylor, Director and co-founder. As a Black woman who immigrated to Canada, and as the Director of the Immigrant Women’s Association New Brunswick (IWANB) of which she is also a founding member, Lisa brings both her lived experience and professional expertise of the barriers to integration and access to services within the provincial education, justice and economic structures.

She leads the development of AEARA’s educational programs and services for community members, as well as initiatives to educate social service providers, policy-makers and federal, provincial and private sector employers about the barriers to inclusion.

She also supports AEARA in conducting research and collecting evidence-based data on the experiences of immigrant workers and is experienced in engaging government in discussions on multiculturalism, diversity, racism and religious discrimination centred around education reform at all levels of the New Brunswick (NB) education system.