WEA Directors are actively engaged in adult education as teachers and learners. Each contributes to WEA’s role in helping adults to learn and to the broader community of adult learning through their work and volunteer contributions. The WEA currently has two projects, Learning Curves a newspaper for adults returning to school and University in the Community in partnership with Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre and Woodsworth College (University of Toronto).

Wendy Terry, President
Wendy Terry earned a Masters of Education. in International Education from Harvard in 1996. She had completed a BA majoring in Psychology at York University after seventeen years of night school. In 1976, she earned a Certificate in Business from Ryerson, after completing her high school at night school. She was the founding coordinator of the Continuing Education Students?Association of Ryerson and in 1981 received an Honorary Award from Ryerson for this contribution. From 1982-84, she was President of the Ontario Association for Continuing Education and in 1995 received OACE’s Norman High Award for outstanding leadership in the field of adult and continuing education. From 1992 to 2000, Wendy represented the International Federation of Workers?Educational Associations at UNESCO and she was the Executive Director of The WEA from 1983- 1993. She is author of The WEA report Unravelling the Tangle and Learning Information Services for Adults in Canada, published in 1991 by Learnxs Press and a Chapter entitled “Workers?Educational Associations, Liberal Arts Learning for Active Citizenship?published in 2003 in “Community and the World: Participating in Social Change?by Torry Dickinson. For the past twelve years she has worked with newcomers at Overland Learning Centre, a community school for adults, as Job Resettlement Counsellor, Coordinator of a Co-op program and as an ESL instructor.

Anne McDonagh, Vice President
Anne is a retired adult education teacher and has an honours degree in English from the University of Toronto. She was Head of Co-op for the East York Adult Learning Centre when she retired. She also worked in adult education teaching English and business communications at George Brown College, Humber College and Dixon Hall. Currently she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre in Toronto and chair of the Board’s Social Action Committee. She is also on the Board of Directors of The St. Clair West Affordable Housing Group. Anne was the facilitator for The WEA Educational Exchange, a learning co-operative project in 1999. This project led to the idea of a liberal arts program in the community, which evolved into University in the Community, a program run by a partnership of Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, The WEA and Woodsworth College. It is funded by the Trillium Foundation. In 2005, Anne received an Arbor Award from the University of Toronto for her work in establishing University in the Community. Anne is Editor of Learning Curves and contributes many feature articles as well. She also tutors and does some career counselling.

Gerard Nuberg, Treasurer
Gerard is the Quality Control Manager at Chemetics Equipment, a division of Aker Kvaerner, Canada, Inc. He undertook a media awareness project in 1987 for The WEA's Adult Learning Information Line (1987-1997) at a time when he was in transition from radio producer/announcer to a technical career. Part of this transition involved returning to school while working. In subsequent years, Gerard has continued his pursuit of certification. He has worked around the world for Chemetics as a project manager and quality assurance manager on projects as long as six months, for example, in Taiwan. Recently, he began a master’s level project management program administered by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Calgary, in Houston, Texas.

Paul Willis LLB, Past President
Paul was President of The WEA in 1992 when The WEA, in co-operation with the Canadian Labour Congress, hosted the sixteenth International Federation of Workers?Educational Associations General Conference. In addition to carrying on a busy law practice he is Concert Master for Counterpoint Community Orchestra, a part time violin teacher and former President of the Board of Directors of Dixon Hall. He is author of The WEA 1984 report The User Pay Policy which studied the impact of funding cutbacks for non-credit courses offered by Ontario school boards. In 2003 when the Toronto District School Board cut non-credit courses, this document was used again—twenty years later—to show that there is historical precedent for funding non-credit programs in Ontario school boards.

Ana Parades, Director
Ana is President of the Hispanic Development Council of Toronto and represents the WEA of Canada on the Council. One of the Council projects is the development of a multi-purpose community centre in Timushan, Guatemala. Ana travels there several times a year to facilitate community development. On June 25, 2003, the Hispanic Development Council gave Ana a special award for her contributions. She currently works as an Employment Resource Counsellor at the Working Women Centre. Ana worked for The WEA as Program Coordinator for the Adult Learning Information Line, and she writes the Dear Ana column for Learning Curves.

Deborah Noel, Director
Deborah’s involvement with The WEA continues a Noel family tradition. Brother Rod Noel is a Past President and brother Rick Noel delivered Learning Curves to the GTA. In fact, Rod gave Learning Curves its name. Deborah is a regular feature writer for Learning Curves. She has just completed with honours a Certificate in Adult Education at Centennial College on a part-time basis and is planning to finish her BA at university also on a part-time basis. Deborah has a background working in the areas of employment counselling, publishing and the non-profit sector. She is currently employed by the City of Toronto and is a consultant and facilitator with the Seneca College program for international professionals.

Carter Hammett, Director
Carter studied English at the University of Ottawa, Social Work at Seneca College and Adult Education at George Brown College. Currently, he is a Career Counsellor for job seekers with learning disabilities with JVS/ALDER. Previously, he worked as Employment Resource Centre Co-ordinator with St. Stephen’s Employment and Training Centre, Employment Facilitator with the Work Orientation Workshops program at The Ontario March of Dimes and Community Worker with Epilepsy Ontario. He is the co-author of Benchmarking: A Guide to Hiring and Managing Persons with Learning Disabilities and author of Conscious Competence: A Skills Training Program for Mentoring Persons with Learning Disabilities. He has contributed over 200 articles to publications that include The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, Abilities Magazine, Dogs in Canada, Family Camping, Ontario Gardener, Your Workplace Magazine, City Parent and The Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health.

Anthony Nnaji,
Anthony holds a Masters degree in Public Administration (MPA) and Certification in Human Resources Management. He has over 7 years of experience in the public management and non-profit sector. He has occupied senior positions, including Program Adviser, Organizational Development Analyst and Human Resources Planning Analyst with the Ontario Public Service. He is currently a resource development coordinator with an African AIDS service organization in Toronto.