About

Chris is a Digital Project Officer for the COH. He holds a BA in Foreign Languages and International Marketing from the University of Aix-Marseille and the University of Bordeaux. He also holds an MBA in Digital Strategy Management from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et d'Economie Numérique in Bordeaux, France. After graduation, he started a Web and Graphic Design company that mainly works with nonprofits in France. Life brought him to Canada where he found the opportunity to work for a fascinating and meaningful organization, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. 

Karen Bosworth is an Instructional Design & Content Developer with the COH Homelessness Learning Hub. She has been actively involved with workplace learning & development since 2005, mainly in the employment and social service sectors. Karen is passionate about increasing access to quality training for frontline service providers. She aims to create engaging and effective learning experiences that people actually enjoy. When she’s not developing training, you’ll find Karen “offline” exploring local trails with her cocker spaniel, Riley.

Niveen is the Communications Manager for the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. She works with the communications team to  provide support on day to day knowledge mobilization efforts and the planning and implementation of communications strategies and processes.

Niveen holds a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University which focused on building sustainable shelter environments for persons experiencing homelessness. With a need to find increasingly creative ways to reach, inspire and stimulate audiences, Niveen has dedicated the last 5 years towards cultivating engaging content and fostering strategic partnerships to further equity and activating real world solutions to social justice issues.

Steph is the Director of Communications at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH). She leads the team responsible for designing the COH's publications and communications materials, which range from reports and books to infographics and videos, that help advance our mandate to enhance the impact of research on policy and practice. Since 2009, Steph has been working with the COH's Homeless Hub website, a key vehicle of knowledge mobilization and the world’s largest library of homelessness research. She also manages communications and design-driven projects for clients of COH's social enterprise, Hub Solutions.

With a background in communications, web and graphic design, Steph designed several of COH's seminal reports and led the redesign of the current Homeless Hub website. She's skilled in both the aesthetic (interface design, user-experience design) and technical (programming, content management systems) aspects of website development. 

Steph graduated from McMaster University’s multimedia and communications program in 2007. In this time, she has been involved in website development and communications management at a variety of organizations in Canada and Switzerland, from non-profits to non-governmental organizations in consultation with the United Nations.

When not thinking about all things design, Steph can be found exploring Toronto with her kids.