FREE EXPRESSION MATTERS
The following individuals and organizations have shown their commitment to freedom of expression by supporting PEN Canada. We applaud them for championing a world in which writers are free to write, readers are free to read, and freedom of expression prevails.
Last updated June 20th 2022.
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Honorary Patron Members
Margaret Atwood
Louise Dennys
John Ralston Saul
Patron Members
Platinum Patrons (10,000+)
Yann Martel
Silver Patrons ($2,500–$4,999)
Linwood & Neetha Barclay
Cynthia Berney & Philip Slayton
Scott Connell & Anouchka Freybe
Patrons ($1,000–$2499)
Sara Angel
The Late Walter M. & Lisa Balfour Bowen
Scotia Bhattacharya
Randy & Anna Boyagoda
Rebecca Brill-Argall
The Right Honourable
Adrienne Clarkson
Andrew Cohen
Suzanne DePoe
Charles Foran
George Galt
Bruce Geddes
Nicholas Giardini
Peter Grant
Charlotte Gray
Richard Greene
David Kendall
Eric Lax
Andrea Lenczner
Margaret MacMillan
Scott McIntyre
Rohinton & Freny Mistry
Laurence Packer
Sarah Pape
Peter Raymont
Marcus Reid
Karen Ruddy
Jim Ryce
John Ralston Saul
Eva Seidner
Peter Showler
Richard Stursberg
Jean Teillet
Lucy Waverman
Grace Westcott
Sponsors & Supporters
Platinum (25,000–$49,999)
Horne Family Charitable
Foundation
The RBC Emerging Artists Project
RBC Foundation
Gold ($15,000–$24,999)
Ontario Arts Council
Bronze ($1000–$14,999)
Bennett Family Foundation
Butterfield Family Foundation
Emerald Foundation
Freybe Foundation
Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan
Charitable Foundation
Howitt Dunbar Foundation
MacMillan Family Foundation
Michael B. Decter Foundation
at Toronto Foundation
N.A. Taylor Foundation
Nazanin Foundation
Norman & Margaret
Jewison Foundation
Penguin Random House
Rotman Family Foundation
Sierra Supply Chain Services
Stonefields Foundation
Programming Partners
Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University
Digital Media at the Crossroads
(DM@X) Conference 2022
George Brown College
Global Reporting Centre, University of British Columbia
Human Rights Watch
Humber School for Writers
ICORN International Cities of Refuge Network
IFEX
Infoscape Research Lab, Ryerson University
International Issues Discussion Series, Ryerson University
PEN America
PEN International
PEN Myanmar
Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
Romero House
Toronto International Festival of Authors
Toronto Public Library
Wordfest
In Kind
Authors at Harbourfront Centre
Babin Bessner Spry
CNW Group
Soapbox Design
Literary Review of Canada
Kathy Koch
Honorary Members
Said Abdelkader
Azimjon Askarov
Emanuel Asrat
Raif Badawi
Temesken Ghebreyesus
Mattewos Habteab
Dawit Habtemichael
Medhanie Haile
Gary Heyde
Dawit Isaak
Faraj Karimov
Gerald Lunz
Yusuf Mohamed Ali
Eskinder Nega
Rashad Ramazanov
José Armando Rodríguez Carreón
Dilmurod Saidov
Seyoum Tsehaye
Fesshaye Yohannes
Members
A
Jeff Abraham
Peyman Adl Dousti Hagh
Rajah al Sur
Jason Anderson
Anneli Andre-Barrett
George Anthony
Richard Archbold
Jess Atwood Gibson
B
Richard Bachmann
Andrea Torrey Balsara
Salma Bani
Cindy Barkway
Gavin Barrett
Jim Bartley
Alison Bate
Danielle Bazinet
Gary Beelik
Aaron Berhane
Paul Bennett
David Bezmozgis
Peter Birt
Neil Bissoondath
Robin Blackburn McBride
Becky Blake
Ronna Bloom
Stephanie Bolster
Michael Bookman
Ali Boreyri
Marian Botsford Fraser
Lynne Bowen
Lyse Boyce
Mary Breen
Jake Brooks
Maureen Brosnahan
Mitchell Brown
Colin Browne
William Bruneau
Andrew Bryant
William Bryant
Anne Brydon
Mary Burns
Helen Burstyn
C
Gillian Campbell
Rosemary Carbonara
Anthony Carnovale
Claudia Casper
Jennifer Chapin
Mary Frances Coady
Valerie Connor
Paige Cooper
Susan Coyne
Jim Creskey
Alan Cumyn
D
Jack David
Gwen Davies
Ryan Day
Michael and Honor de Pencier
Teri Degler
Ron Deibert
Onder Deligoz
Furkan Demirdoven
Gezahegn Mekonnen Demissie
Poonam Dhir
Marcello Di Cintio
Emily Dial
Rebecca Dillon
JoAnn Dionne
Martin and Karen Dockrill
Brownwyn Drainie
Naomi Duguid
Catherine Dunphy
E
Kim Echlin
Jennie Egerdie
Omar El Akkad
Taha Elkhalifa
Peter & Jacqueline Elton
Marina Endicott
Tawhida Tanya Evanson
F
Kim Fahner
Chris Faiers
Jane Fairburn
Rob Fennell
Robert Finley
Jonathan Finn
Hannah Fisher
Cynthia Flood
Kevin Flynn
Cadence Fournier
Keath Fraser
G
Marie-Louise Gay
Anne Giardini
Aaron Goodman
Laurence Gough
Katherine Govier
Ron Graham
Eva Green
Lyndsay Green
Melvyn Green
Richard Greene
Susan Greer
Michael Groden
Jing Guo
H
Beth Haddon
Soloman Hailemariam Erba
Don Hannah
Victor Harding
Dawn Harman
Merle Harris
Hannah Hassanpour
Elizabeth Hay
Peter Hay
Samantha Haywood
Christopher Hedges
Dorris Heffron
Clara Henssen
Lawrence Hill
Carol Holmes
Robert Hough
Lisa Horrocks
Louisa Howerow
Linda Huestis
Isabel Huggan
Graeme Hunter
I
Kevin Irie
John Irving
Frances Itani
J
Bassam Jamil
Catherine Jeffrey
Elizabeth Johnston
K
Elizabeth Kaplan
Hoda Karimi Sadr
Anna Ling Kaye
Janet Keeping
Richard Keith
Margo Kelly
Nancy Vernon Kelly
David Kent
Camie Kim
Mark Kingwell
Gail Kirkpatrick
Mary Kirton
Joshua Knelman
Brenda Koller
Sheila Koop
David Koulack
Martha Kumsa
Diana Kuprel
Tanya Kyi
L
Marlene Lachcik
Emilia Lafond
Anita Lahey
Bianca Lakoseljac
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Jennifer Lanthier
Cynthia Lapeña
Mary Jo Leddy
Alexander Leggatt
Sylvia Legris
Dayna Leighton
Maria Claire Leng
Heike Lettrari
Ezra Levant
Amanda Lewis
Steward Lewis
Jane Lind
Damian Lopes
Gloria Lorenzen
Ljerka Susanna Lukic
Derek Lundy
M
Wendy MacIntyre
Ian MacLean
Maria Maksymiw
Pasha Malla
Nicole Mankinen
Dina Marques
Émile Martel
Sandra Martin
Nadia Masri
Abdulrahman Matar
Carol Matas
Joseph Mathieu
Colin McAdam
Bob McArthur
Richard McClelland
S.A.M. McCue
Hope McIntyre
Neil McKinnon
Angus McLaren
Stephanie McLellan
George Melnyk
Iman Mersal
Lawrence Mirkin
Michael Mirolla
Jack Mitchell
Salah El Din Mohssein
Nancy Moon
Rebecca Morris
Elise Moser
Ezat Mossallanejad
Omar Mouallem
Rashid Mughal
Sarah Murdoch
Douglas Murphy
Cassandra Myers
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Leilah Nadir
Marie Natanson
John Neal
Coleen Nemtin
Caroline Newton
O
Peter O’Brien
Jane O’Hara
Aila Omar
Frances M. Owen
P
Brian Panhuyzen
Jeungsoon Park
Kathleen Pattinson
Akram Pedramnia
Warren Peltier
Louise Penny
Laura Phillips
Carolyn Poirier
Alexandra Popoff
Anna Porter
Pamela Porter
Elizabeth Priddle
Q
Darlene Quaife
R
Monique Rabideau
Suman Rahman
Deepa Rajagopalan
Philip Resnick
Pedro Restrepo
Kamal Riahi
Nino Ricci
David Rintoul
Brenda Roche
Ingrid Rose
Anna Rosner
Stuart Ross
Naben Ruthnum
Maria Helena Rykov
S
Maria Sabaye Moghaddam
Judie Sahadeo
AZM Sajedur Rahman
Mahdi Saremifar
Denise Schon
Joseph Schreiber
Anneliese Schultz
Mel Shakespeare
Evelyn Sharpe
Gina Shochat-Rakoff
Haroon Siddiqui
Antanas Sileika
Merilyn Simonds
Marvin Singer
Mateusz Sklad
Elaine Slater
Caitlin Smith
Adam Sol
Sandra Stephenson
Felicity Stone
Susan Stromberg-Stein
Lesley Strutt
Rosemary Sullivan
Fraser Sutherland
Mark Swartz
George Swede
Joanne Szilagyi
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Tanya Talaga
Barbara Tangney
Raymond and Fenelia Temmerman
Chris Tenove
Tasleem Thawar
Blossom Thom
Susan Thorne
Ryan Thorpe
Tom Thring
Hung Ton
Ziya Tong
Caroline Topperman
Kim Trainor
U
Lawrence Uhlin
Rui Umezawa
Peter Unwin
Pablo Urbanyi
V
Jacqueline Valencia
Aritha van Herk
Comfort Verissimo
W
Eleanor Wachtel
Hazrat Wahriz
Jennifer Walcott
Helen Walsh
David Waltner-Toews
Karen Walton
Katherine Ward
Janette Watt
Kelly Watt
Alison Wearing
Janice Weaver
Annette Wentworth
Alan Whitehorn
Laurelyn Whitt
Dorothy Woodhouse
Donna Wootton
Y
Serhy Yekelchyk
Karen Young
Z
Chro Zand
Donors
A
Tom Adlhoch
Jane Anderson
Ken Anderson
Sarah Atkins
Leah Atkinson
B
Deborah Bartlett
Benevity Community Impact Fund
Steven Benstead
Kaira Bergstra
Jennifer Bizzarri
Emily Blakelock
Paulette Bourgeois
Kate Braid
Michael Brooks
Sophie Brown-Graham
C
Canada Helps
Stephanie Coffey
Sarah Collins
Sarah Colwell
Sarah Cosh
D
Rob Degoeij
Michael Devine
Maureen Donnelly
E
Mary Elliott
F
Martha Fell
Elizabeth Ferguson
Amy Fisher
Flavelle Family Foundation
Rowan Fletcher
Kathryn From
G
Rebecca Garber
Rob Gilroy
John K. Grande
Rory Grant
H
Cheryl Hawkes
Sandra Heft
Andre Hila
Deidre Hill
Jennifer Hirshfeld
Holy Blossom Temple
Amy Hutchison
I
Stacey Ison
J
Robert Jickling
Theresa Johnson
Melanie Johnston
K
Jacob Kaufman
Peter Kirby
Joseph Kirman
Adrianna Knight
Kathy Koch
Sheila Koop
Hannah Koschanow
L
Keri Levinsky
Susan and Richard Levinsky
M
Cathy Martin-Pauwels
Norman McLeod
Karen Miller
Catherine Mitchell
Naomi Mori
Randy Murray
Appadurai Muttulingam
N
Mikio Nakashima
Joanne Nelson
Stephanie Nerlich
O
Lindsay Oughtred
P
PayPal Charitable Giving Fund
Roger Poirier
Barbara Powell
Kimberly Price
Q
Kathleen Quinn
R
Diana Rivington
S
Wendy Sacks
Robyn Scott
Chloe Shantz-Hilkes
Renee Silberman
Leslee Silverman
David Simmons
Sherry Simon
Joseph Simons
Glenn Smith
Roman Solonysznyj
Ilona Staples
Stephanie Stavro
Evan Steingarten
Michael Stevenson
Bob Stuart
Visha Sukdeo
Deborah Sword
T
Joyce Taylor
Melissa Thomson
Stephen Trumper
Ruth Tubbesing — Donation in memory of Karoly Sandor
V
Uma Viswanathan
W
Darren Wallace
Allyson Watts
Ellen Webster
Douglas Wilson
Carolyn Wood
Randy Witten
Wendy Wright
Y
Lori Yarrow
Shingo Yuki
Board of Directors
President, Grace Westcott
Vice President, Suzanne DePoe
Secretary, Michael Bookman
Treasurer, Carolyn Poirier
Chair, Events, Anouchka Freybe
Chair, Fundraising, Anna Porter
Chair, Writers in Peril, Peter Showler
Chair, Indigenous Affairs, Jean Teillet
Chair, Communications, Karen Walton
Members at Large
Marcello Di Cintio
Paola Gomez
Nancy Jamieson
Eluned Jones
Scott McIntyre
Omar Mouallem
Ziya Tong
Past Presidents
Richard Stursberg
Randy Boyagoda
Philip Slayton
Charlie Foran
Ellen Seligman
Nelofer Pazira
Constance Rooke
Haroon Siddiqui
Reza Baraheni
Sandra Martin
Ann Ireland
Katherine Govier
Ron Graham
Nino Ricci
Marian Botsford Fraser
Alison Gordon
Louise Dennys
John Ralston Saul
June Callwood
Graeme Gibson
Timothy Findley
Margaret Atwood
Advisory Council
Richard Stursberg
Randy Boyagoda
Neil Bissoondath
Kristin Cochrane
Valerie Connor
Douglas Coupland
David Cronenberg
Ronald Deibert
Esi Edugyan
Omar El Akkad
Charlie Foran
Adam Gopnik
Kevin Hanson
Mark Kingwell
Naomi Klein
Rohinton Mistry
Elana Rabinovitch
Devyani Saltzmann
Tanya Talaga
Michael Wernick
Ken Whyte
Staff
Executive Director, Brendan de Caires
Office Manager, Theresa Johnson
Volunteers
Anneli Andre-Barrett
Marian Botsford Fraser
Maureen Brosnahan
Onder Deligoz
Gezahegn Mekonnen Demissie
Hannah Fisher
Margo Kelly
Keith Leckie
Mary Jo Leddy
Joan Leishman
Caroline Newton
Maria Sabaye
Speakers
Margaret Atwood
Randy Boyagoda
The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson
Omar El Akkad
Colin McAdam
Jack Mitchell
John Irving
Colm Tóibín
Special Thanks
Mariam Alzier
Theo Amory
Linwood Barclay
Gary Beelik
David Bezmozgis
Biblioasis
Mary Campbell
The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson
Irwin Cotler
Eva Crocker
David Cronenberg
Marcello Di Cintio
Esi Edugyan
Omar El Akkad
Anouchka Freybe
George Brown College
Chantal Gibson
Giving Tuesday
Paola Gomez
Susan Heximer, George
Brown College
Beth Haddon
Chara Ho
HotDocs
Jayu Human Rights Film Festival
Joshua Knelman
Martha Kumsa
Literary Review of Canada
Jason Leaver
Mary Jo Leddy
Joan Leishman
Jason Logan
Margaret MacMillan
Yann Martel
Kasey Maguire
Media Profile
Elise Moser
Omar Mouallem
Hasan Namir
Penguin Random House
Canada
RBC
Deepa Rajagopalan
Jim Ryce
John Ralston Saul
Peter Showler
Philip Slayton
Sandra Stephenson (Trickledown House)
Richard Stursberg
Sara Taslim
Chris Tenove
Colm Tóibín
Ziya Tong
Tonic Blooms
Toronto Foundation
Karen Walton
Grace Westcott
Ken Whyte
Everett Wilson
Cynthia Wine
Dr. Natalie Wong
Wordfest
Yonge-Lawrence Dentistry
Dr. Trina MaCrae
Dr. Carolyn Berbrayer
Liis Truuvert
Lies Aris
Kathy Findlayson
Loretta Ing
Kyra Lacaden
Kari Moyer
Shelley Youngblut
And all those who have contributed their thoughts and time.
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