Mali facilitates and develops programming for regular stakeholder meetings in BC including communities of practice, while crafting overall strategy to build stakeholder relationships, capacity, and alignment. She provides strategic advice to the Project Design Team to guide project delivery and evaluation.

Mali is a former high school teacher and has had the joy of working both as a teacher, in non-profits, and in philanthropy. She has a background facilitating diverse groups of stakeholders, and has had the joy of doing that work in places from Kenya to Newfoundland to UBC. She was a senior program officer at McConnell Foundation; in that role, she convened and learned from remarkable educators, leaders, and policy-makers across Canada. Mali is also the founder of NextGen Story: Custom Publishing.