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w w w .insidehalton.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, June 9, 2 0 1 7 | 14 Local w o m e n o f in flu en ce use su ccess to m e n to r o th e is continued from p.13 Donna Jenkins Jenkins founded Zachary' s Paws for Healing, which brings pets to hospitals to visit their owners. It' s was born of a promise to her nephew, Zachary, before he died. Since the first pet visit in November 2015, Zachary' s Paws for Healing has facilitated more than 350 pet visits. It also helps find foster homes for pets whose owners are hospitalized and Jenkins fosters some of the animals. national operations team of close to 4,000 employees. Nancy Romic Shifra Homes was on the verge of closure when Romic became executive director. She restructured and rebranded Shifra Homes to provide safe, supportive living accommodations for pregnant women and mothers with babies and nowhere to go. Shifra Homes has operated at full capacity with a waiting list since 2012 and Romic has positively impacted the lives of many young women. Becoming a mother at age 19, Romic encourages education and has stopped the cycle of poverty and homelessness for every young mom at Shifra. in Skilled Trades. She continues to encourage women in the trades. Shannon Tobin Tobin is an award-winning entrepreneur, experienced in sales, as well as an author, philanthropist, passionate speaker and co-founder of Vitality Group - Live Grow Empower. Tobin founded The Dare To Be You Foundation and received the Bronze STEVIE Award recipient for Women in Business: Female Mentor and Coach of the Year. Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online in 2014, which was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for non-fiction. She served on the board of directors for Integra, an organization that assists children and teens with learning disabilities. in the Carousel of Nations festival. She has been a citizen member on the Cultural Advisory Committee for the Town of Oakville. Mariyne Van Exan Van Exan has been actively volunteering in the community since the 1960s, including her involvement with the Halton Civitan, an organization that helps people with special needs. She has been president of the Civtan club several times and has chaired many committees. Van Exan also helped to charter a junior civitan club and is currently on the Civitan District West Board as an area director. She is also currently on the board of directors for Community Living Oakville and was given its Excellence in Volunteering award in 2011, the third person to receive it. Van Exan also volunteers with the Oakville-based Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children. Veronica Tyrell Tyrell is president of the Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton (CCAH) and received a Leading Women Building Communities award from Ontario' s Ministry for Women' s Issues. Under Tyrell, the CCAH' s project Black Youth in Action was selected for the minister' s report to parliament on the Multicultural Act of 2008. This project served more than 15,000 students and 500 adults. CCAH has hosted events such as the Roots of Freedom Festival, annual Black History Month celebrations and the Caribbean Cultural Pavilion Kim Mason Mason has held regional and national positions for RBC Royal Bank and was regional president for greater Toronto. She has been recognized as a Top 50 Atlantic CEO for 2012, 2013 and 2014, was named one of Canada' s Top 25 Women of Influence in 2013 by Women o f Influence magazine and was most recently named one of WXN Canada' s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2014. Mason is responsible for maximizing the performance and productivity across RBCs Veronica Tyrell | Metroland file photo taught at Sheridan and is board vice-president and volunteer mediator at Community Conflict Resolution Services of Halton. Paula Todd Todd is a broadcast journalism and digital media professor at Seneca College and frequent speaker on cyber-abuse, Internet culture, writing, reporting, literacy and freedom of the press. Todd has been a reporter for the Toronto Star and has hosted and co-hosted programs including Studio 2, Person to Person and T he Verdict with Paula Todd. She has published many books, including E xtrem eMean: Leena Sharma Seth Sharma Seth has been Halton Poverty Roundtable' s community engagement director since 2012. She has worked for Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the Victorian Order of Nurses, Katimavik, Blue Ocean Strategy Consulting and Global Vision - Malaysia. 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