Doris is the Director, Planning and Project Delivery at Civida where she has made a strong contribution to the affordable housing sector. In addition to her extensive knowledge in Capital and Strategic planning, Doris continues to change the narrative on women in leadership by empowering women of all ages. She is an active member of CREW Edmonton, Alberta’s Chapter of Women in Leadership and the Board Secretary at the YWCA Edmonton. Prior to joining Civida, Doris spent over 10 years in the Education sector where she executed many successful projects including the championing and innovation of safe, accessible and inclusive play spaces for children.

Doris has been a recipient of The Edmonton’s Edify Magazine’s Top 40 under 40, Class of 2022, a recipient of the Healthy Community Award for Most Significant Change, 2022, and acknowledged as a Women of Influence, 2023, from The Planner’s Magazine.

Yemurai has worked in the actuarial consulting field specializing in pensions for 5 years. She has experience with project and risk management of multi-employer pension plans where she contributes to data driven decision making and strategic planning. Yemurai has strong leadership, analytical and stakeholder management skills. She also has an extensive volunteer background from mentoring and training orphans and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe to securing funding from Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) for the Centre for the Development of Women and Children (CDWC) through proposal writing. Yemurai is passionate about contributing to the well-being of women and children in marginalized communities and the skills and experience she has acquired to date will enable her to contribute meaningfully to the efforts of Change for Children Association in its mandate to build civil society capacity in Canada and the global south to promote health, human rights and create solutions to poverty through sustainable development.