GVAT’s Board of Directors

Brigitte McKenzie

Chair

Brigitte McKenzie has been actively involved with GVAT almost from its beginnings. She currently serves as chair of the GVAT board of directors, and is a member of the Indigenous Relationships Learning Circle, (a subcommittee of the Committee of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, COEDI, within GVAT).

Brigitte is an ordained diaconal minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada with a call to serve in specialized ministry focused on community engagement. Her previous career involved being a senior manager of volunteer resources in several not-for-profit organizations, including AIDS Vancouver Island (AVI) and Victoria Hospice.

Brigitte seeks to find balance between the diverse and gratifying work involving people and groups and spending personal time expressing her creativity in her love of gardening, being in nature, fibre arts, relearning watercolor painting, and avidly reading for her book club. Spending time with family, friends and neighbours is also an important pastime. She shares her home with her adult daughter and future son- in- law and feels very blessed to be able to call Victoria home for over 30 years.

Stephen Tyler

Interim Treasurer

Stephen is a father and grandfather who has lived in Victoria for 25 years. He is an active member of GVAT’s member organization Broad View United Church, and has worked as a planning professional and researcher on sustainability and climate change issues in Canada and South East Asia for more than 30 years. He enjoys cycling, hiking and reading aloud to his grandkids.

Yvonne Hsieh

Vice-Chair

An immigrant from Hong Kong, Yvonne Hsieh is a retired UVic professor of French. She chaired the Social & Eco Justice Committee at Holy Cross Parish for six years, and has represented Holy Cross at GVAT since 2018. She served as Co-Lead of the Affordable Housing ART from 2021-2023, working primarily to prevent homelessness among former youth in foster care, and helping to organize the GVAT Homes for All Assembly in October 2022. Yvonne is also a member of the GVAT Climate Justice ART. Her main interests lie in music, architecture, the visual arts, literature and languages.

Tracey Scott

Board Secretary

Tracey is a mother and grandmother who has lived on the island for 3 years. She is an active member of GVAT’s member organization Sierra Club BC, and has worked as a specialist in management systems, strategy, planning and governance for over 20 years.  Tracey lives in North Saanich with her husband Rob and enjoys forest walks with their dogs, cycling the Peninsula, swimming, jogging, exploring Vancouver Island, and learning how to tell awesome climate stories.

Michael Glover

Member at Large

Michael is the Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator for the Camosun College Student Society. In addition to being Vice-Chair of The board of GVAT, he is Vice-Chair of the Industrial Areas Foundation Canada board of Directors. Michael is a retired Arts administrator having spent 10 years as the managing Artistic Director of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Society. Though he hasn’t spent time on stage in a while he still thinks about it. Most of his spare time —if any— now goes to up cycling old computers into art or restoring old Macintosh’s.

Eric Doherty

Member at Large

Eric Doherty is a transportation planner and an active member of GVAT member organization Climate Justice Victoria. In his consulting business, Ecopath Planning, Eric specializes in improving community health and livability, as well as reducing climate pollution. Some of Eric’s writing on transportation and climate justice is published in the National Observer and Georgia Straight.