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Introducing Vanessa Herrick: ELAN’s new Executive Director<\/h1>\n

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From Centaur Theatre to Battlefield Earth, L.A. to London, and film production to journalism to Seniors Action Quebec: we are very excited to introduce you to Vanessa Herrick.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Vanessa Herrick is already known to many ELAN members and partners. At the dawn of the new millennium, Vanessa was Director of Public Relations and Marketing for Centaur Theatre Company. Prior to Centaur, Vanessa worked with Warner Brothers and MGM Studios in Montreal and Los Angeles in various roles in production of major films such as The Bone Collector, Battlefield Earth and Rollerball.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Vanessa enrolled at Concordia University to study journalism. She was awarded the Don McGillivray Memorial Prize for Explanatory Journalism for \u201cBombs and Diplomacy\u201d in 2009, and in 2010 Vanessa received the Canadian International Development Agency\u2019s Journalism and Development award.\u00a0 After graduating from Concordia, Vanessa pursued further studies in a masters program in International Communications and Development at City University, London, England.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Vanessa joined\u00a0Health Partners International of Canada<\/a>\u00a0as Communications Manager for their Capacity Building and Access to Medicines project in Afghanistan. In 2013, she moved to a position as Marketing and Communications Manager for the World Hemophilia Federation, where she was promoted to Head of Marketing and Communications in 2016.\u00a0 Vanessa moved to Ottawa as Communications and Public Affairs Manager at the\u00a0Global Centre for Pluralism<\/a>\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Vanessa became the first Executive Director of the recently created\u00a0Seniors Action Quebec<\/strong><\/a>, a Quebec-based not-for-profit focused on advocacy and community-building with the mandate of creating a province-wide network of community organizations working together to support access to care and social services for English-speaking seniors. SAQ has played a vital role in supporting seniors during the COVID pandemic and Vanessa has supervised valuable projects as well has been an impassioned and articulate spokesperson in the media.<\/p>\n

ELAN and SAQ have developed a strong working relationship over the course of two collaborative projects. The popular video project,\u00a0We\u2019re All In This Together<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0was developed by Vanessa in collaboration with ELAN’s Guy Rodgers. SAQ and ELAN are also partners in a project about identity and belonging in Quebec\u2019s English-speaking community funded by the Secretariat for Relations with English-speaking Quebecers: SAQ\u2019s\u00a0Je Me Souviens<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and ELAN\u2019s\u00a0Waves of Change<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vanessa brings a wealth of diverse experience to ELAN. 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