Our team
Elodie Jacquet, MSc.
An engagement and facilitation practitioner with over 15 years of experience, she was involved in co-designing and facilitating a number of large-scale citizen and community engagements, including Canada’s World, the Citizen’s Dialogues on Canada’s Energy Future, the National Reconciliation Gatherings and the guided dialogues for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. She was the lead researcher on inclusion in Open Government for the Canadian Government, and a peer-reviewer for its 4th Open Government Plan. In her position as manager of knowledge and practice at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University, she co-led the development of the award-winning guide Beyond Inclusion: Equity in Public Engagement.
She has been a lecturer and mentor for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities’ program SDGs for Global Citizenship, in partnership with Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.
She is an observer to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process since 2015.
She is currently pursuing a PhD with a focus on environmental democracy. Elodie identifies as an immigrant settler of colour and a grateful guest on Traditional Coast Salish Lands.
Eunhye Lee, Ma.
As a practitioner of dialogue and engagement, Eunhye brings a decade of international experience, having worked in the UN, public and private sectors, and non-profits. She brings strong peacebuilding, human development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and intersectional lens to her work.
Eunhye has managed multi-stakeholder dialogues on complex topics such as Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), climate change, reconciliation, democratic engagement, racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). In 2021, she co-led an award-winning research project titled “Beyond Inclusion: Equity in Public Engagement” at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.
During her time with UNHCR in New York and Brazil, Eunhye monitored and reported on formal UN processes, working groups, and high-level events, examining their impact on refugee policies at the intersection of human rights and refugee issues. She also authored a policy concept note on strategies for fostering meaningful communication with refugee communities.
Eunhye holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Global Affairs from the University of Notre Dame. Her current research interests include how the humanizing elements of dialogue processes can enhance deliberative practices, aiming to make them more inclusive. Her master's research, titled Humanizing Digital Dialogue, explores the distinction between dialogue as a process-driven tool for fostering understanding and deliberation as a structured approach to decision-making, examining the complexities of balancing these aspects in the digital era.
In 2018, she participated in the WomenPeaceKorea delegation to advocate for the inclusion of women in the Korean peace process alongside Nobel Peace Laureates and 30 women representing international peace organizations. Eunhye is serving as the Secretary of the Board at the Laurier Institution. She has also co-founded Woman's Hill Ministry, an NGO dedicated to empowering diaspora Korean women in religious work, focusing on their identity and human development.
She has lived and worked in South Korea, Canada, Brazil, the US, and the UK.