Meet the 2025 CAFES Board of Directors

CAFES is pleased to introduce our new Board of Directors elected at our recent Annual General Meeting held on March 27th, 2025. CAFES has always attracted high-calibre board members and this year is no different! Each of our board members come with impressive skills and experience and we look forward to what our 2025 CAFES Board will achieve in the year ahead! Our board members also represent a large cross-section of Ottawa, coming from rural, suburban and urban areas of our community.

• Harry Fischer, Suburban Nepean, 2-year term
• Pamela Jordan, Suburban Kanata, 2-year term
• Nour Kadri, Urban 2-year term
• Nasratullah (Nasrat) Mateen, Suburban Nepean, 2-year term
• Goutam Shaw, Rural Cumberland, 2-year term
• Magdalene Carson, Suburban Barrhaven, 2 years (new 2nd term)
• Mike Fletcher, Rural Munster, 1 year remaining
• Jennifer Gautreau, Suburban Nepean, 1 year remaining
• Akil Mesiwala, Urban, 1 year remaining
• Pamela O’Donnell, Rural Carlsbad Springs, 1-year remaining
• Sara Washburn, Suburban Orleans, 1 year remaining

Read the bios of the 2025 CAFES Board of Director here.

A special thanks to our 2024 Board for all their hard work and dedication to CAFES over the last year. Our latest Impact Report demonstrates the amazing things CAFES achieved in 2024 under their watch! We'd also like to extend our gratitude and a fond farewell to our outgoing board members; James Stevenson (Chair of the Board), Guy Dubuc (Treasurer of the Board), Dr. Emma Bider (Member of the Board) and Ariella Ritter Gubbay (Member of the Board).