Our Board
Rami Shoucri, Chair
Rami is a family physician with the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team, where he is the clinical champion for the Health Justice Program and chair of the Advocacy Committee for the Family Health Team. He was formerly a staff physician and locum physician at Weeneebayko Area Health Authority. He is a member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Ontario Medical Association, and the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Rami also holds an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
Since joining the St Michael’s Hospital Department of Family and Community Medicine in 2016, Rami has earned a reputation as a champion and leader in understanding – and empowering others to understand and act on – key opportunities for advocacy to improve the health of more vulnerable patients and communities. Key objectives include: to identify when a health harming social need might have a legal solution, and to identify situations that are high risk for deteriorating into an intractable legal problem and how to access preventative services.
Kylie Stanners, Vice-Chair
Kylie Stanners is the Director of Operations for Community Legal Services of Ottawa. Community Legal Services of Ottawa is a general service legal clinic that assists clients with landlord and tenant, public benefits, immigration, employment insurance, and workers’ compensation matters. She has worked in the clinic system for more than 30 years. She is keenly interested in using technology to support clinic work and ensure access to justice.
Kylie currently sits as a clinic member of the CIMS Working Group and she coordinates the annual Ottawa Immigration Law Conference. Kylie is a past member of the Association of Community Legal Clinics of Ontario’s Executive, a former clinic member of the Information Technology Advisory Committee to Legal Aid Ontario a former board member for the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre and has volunteered as an adult literacy tutor with People Words and Change in Ottawa.
Prem Lobo, Treasurer
Prem Lobo is a Principal at Cohen Hamilton Steger & Co. Inc. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Business Valuator, and specializes in the quantification of damages, business valuations and forensic accounting. His practice has been focused exclusively in this area since 2001. In 2013, Prem was named the “Top Chartered Business Valuator under 40” by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators (“CICBV”) and in 2014 and 2016, he was awarded the Communicator Award by the CICBV.
Prem has prepared or assisted in the preparation of numerous expert reports and affidavits and has qualified and testified as a forensic accountant, business valuator and loss quantification expert in various jurisdictions.
A frequent public speaker and writer, Prem has published articles and papers in numerous legal and accounting periodicals including the Journal of Business Valuation, CA Magazine, Business Valuation Digest, the Advocates’ Journal, Commercial Litigation Review and Class Action Defence Quarterly. Prem has taught accounting courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at York University’s Schulich School of Business and the University of Ontario.
Prem previously was a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Expropriation Association and Sancta Maria House.
Aiman Flahat
Aiman is an award winning educator with over 25 years of teaching and administrative experience at the secondary school, college and university levels. He was honoured with the Toronto District School Board’s excellence Award (2014), the Canada’s Outstanding Principal National Award (2012) from the prestigious Learning Partnership, and was nominated by the community for the Metroland Media Urban Hero Award 2017.
Aiman is currently a Centrally Assigned Principal of School Improvement and Equity supporting and mentoring school administrators across 42 schools in the Toronto District School Board. By focusing on equity and anti-oppression, Aiman is committed to supporting schools by identifying barriers that prevent student success and working with educators to remove these barriers. He believes that every student can learn if provided with the necessary opportunities and support systems to be successful. By engaging post-secondary institutions, industry and various levels of government, Aiman has established effective partnerships and accessed funding to provide students with the resources they need to be successful. Having served on numerous committees and community organizations including Unison Health Network’s board of directors and most recently, the CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario) board of directors, he has extensive experience in supporting underserved communities and believes that education is the key that will unlock the doors of success for all students.
Aiman has met with and presented to delegations of education leaders from over 15 countries on effective school leadership, school improvement, instructional leadership, supporting newcomer communities, partnership development, and building community schools of the future. He holds a Masters degree in Information Technology and attended Executive Leadership Training at the Rotman School of Management University of Toronto, the Richard IVEY School of Management, and is currently enrolled in the Leading Change Program at Harvard University.
Elizabeth Goldberg
Elizabeth Goldberg was most recently Chief Executive Officer of The Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO). She was a Trustee of the LFO from 1993 to 2002. She has also been on the Boards of Directors of The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, the Ontario Justice Education Network, and the Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Association. She was a founding director and first President of the Association of Law Officers of the Crown.
Ms. Goldberg served for many years as Chief Constitutional Counsel for the Attorney General of Ontario, and from 2005 to 2007 she led a project resulting in the enactment of a new Public Service of Ontario Act. In 2006, she received the Amethyst Award for outstanding achievement by Ontario public servants. In 2009, she received the Law Society Medal awarded by the Law Society of Upper Canada to Ontario lawyers whose service reflects the highest ideals of the profession. In 2011, she was named a Woman of Distinction by the YWCA.
John No
John is a Community Lawyer Group Lead with a workers’ rights focus at Parkdale Community Legal Services. Since 2011, his practice areas include employment law, human rights law, CPP-D, the Occupational Health & Safety Act, and Employment Insurance benefits. He works closely with the Workers’ Action Centre, Caregivers Action Centre, Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, and FCJ Refugee Centre. He also supervises ten law students per year. John has been (and is) an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School for number of years, where he was the 2017 Osgoode Teaching Award recipient.
John articled at United Steelworkers. In 2008, he joined Community Advocacy & Legal Centre in Belleville. Through a partnership he also represented low-income individuals in Northumberland County with their wrongful dismissal cases. During his time in Eastern Ontario, John also served on the Board of Directors of Quinte United Immigration Services.
Barbara Wiktorowicz
Currently a consultant with Maplewood Consulting, Barbara was Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Accreditation (previously Community Organizational Health) for over ten years. Prior to this, she was Executive Director of Women’s Health Clinic, a community health centre in Winnipeg, and held leadership positions with other community-based services, including the Alzheimer Society, the Elizabeth Fry Society and York Community Services.
Barbara has also been an instructor with the Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba. She is a volunteer Accreditation Reviewer with CCA and has been involved in various other volunteer roles, including Board Chair of the Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women and the Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence.