Our Steering Committee

Interfaith Housing’s lead decision making body is a steering committee made up of people of faith from different traditions.  Here is the list of those who currently serve in the oversight and coordination of our work together:

• Lucy Kaakyo, Office of the Lay Apostolate, Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton
• Sophia Yaqub, A member of the Muslim Community and Executive Director of the Shaama Centre.
• Major Al Hoeft,  Divisional Secretary for Public Relations, Salvation Army
• Marshall Hundert, A member of the Jewish Community at Temple Beth Ora, and the owner and operator of Norwood Village, a mixed-market affordable housing complex.
• Rev. Audrey Brooks, Unitarian Chaplain at the University of Alberta
• Rev. Kathie Schmitke, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
• Jeannette Wright, Community Development Social worker with the City of Edmonton, Housing and Homeless
• Jas Panesar, a member of Edmonton’s Sikh community
• Marisa Redmond, Senior Director of Housing, E4C
•  The Very Rev. Alexandra Meek, Dean at the Cathedral, Anglican Diocese of Edmonton
• Rev. Mike Van Boom, Christian Reformed Church of North America, serving as the Interfaith Network Animator