Community Knowledge Exchange Partner
Karlee Sapoznik Evans BAH, MA, PhD - Community Knowledge Exchange Partner
Vice President of Impact & Innovation with United Way Winnipeg
Dr. Karlee Sapoznik Evans is an award-winning executive leader in the public and non-profit sectors. She specializes in strategic planning, research, social innovation and impact, and has served as part of reconciliation, anti-slavery, genocide prevention, and human rights projects and task forces across Canada, and around the world. From 2014-2015, she led a team of researchers for Library and Archives Canada’s Document Disclosure Project for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. As a professor at Saint-Boniface University, Evans created the university’s first courses about the history of Indian Residential Schools and slavery in Canada. In 2023, she was named by The Peak as one of Canada’s up and coming leaders shaping Canada’s culture, economy, and society. She currently serves as Vice President of Impact & Innovation with United Way Winnipeg.