Meet David.

David serves as the Executive Director of HanVoice. He has over 30 years of experience in charity and non-profit management, as well as senior volunteer leadership, working within the arts, education, health and human rights spaces.

Before starting his role at HanVoice, David worked for a number of charitable and non-profit organizations, most recently with the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) as their Director of Board and Executive Relations. Prior to TIFF, David has held professional roles at the University of Toronto and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada, and volunteered with a number of boards, most recently as chair of JAYU.

Meet Sean.

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Sean serves as the Chief Executive Officer of HanVoice. He has been an active part of HanVoice since 2015.

Sean previously worked in New York as a consultant at the International Organization for Migration and as an officer at the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth.

In the past five years, Sean has travelled across Canada to mobilize and train hundreds of youth for policy advocacy, presented at national and global fora on migration issues, with a special focus on North Korea, and lobbied federal policymakers, UN officials, and other stakeholders in pursuit of a free and prosperous Korean Peninsula.

Meet our Board.

  • Jack is HanVoice’s Co-Founder and Board Chair.

    He is a Partner in the Toronto office of Fragomen (Canada) Co. His practice consists of assisting clients with their inbound corporate immigration requirements. This includes NAFTA related applications, intra-company transfers, Labour Market Impact Assessments (including under the Global Talent Stream), as well as process compliance and inadmissibility issues.

    He has spoken about Canadian immigration issues at various venues, including the Canadian Employee Relocation Council, the Engineering Human Resources Association, American Society of Employers, Toronto Region Board of Trade, Law Society of Ontario and Osgoode Hall Law School. Prior to joining Fragomen, Jack worked in various sectors, including as a hearings officer at the Canada Border Services Agency, an executive director of a nonprofit organization and an associate at a boutique management consulting firm. Jack also articled at a major corporate law firm in Toronto. As an authority on North Korean affairs, Jack appears frequently in the media, and has consulted with cabinet ministers and testified before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Human Rights Committee. Jack speaks English and Korean.

  • Ambassador David Slinn is a retired British diplomat. Ambassador Slinn, assigned to Pyongyang in 2002 as the first British Ambassador to North Korea, established the embassy in acutely sensitive security conditions. Since then, Ambassador Slinn has retired and focused much of his time on researching and developing approaches to free expression and information related to North Korea. He is a thought leader and regularly consulted on the security and information dimensions of the West’s engagement with North Korea and comes with an extensive network of experts similarly focused on these issues. He serves as Senior Advisor at Digital Public Square.

  • Dr. Sandra Fahy is an Associate Professor at Carleton University. Dr. Fahy is a leading expert on the human rights and humanitarian situation in North Korea. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London in 2009. She held post-doctoral fellowships at EHESS in Paris and USC in Los Angeles, before taking up a position in Anthropology at Sophia University in 2013 and Carleton University in 2021.

    Her first book, Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea published by Columbia University Press in 2015) examines how North Korean famine survivors understood the food crisis and concomitant political violence. Her second book, Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Rights Abuses on the Record published by Columbia University Press in 2019 accounts for abuses committed by the North Korean state, domestically and internationally.

  • Gilad Cohen is an Israeli-Canadian Toronto-based artist, photographer, podcaster, public speaker, and advocate for human rights. Since 2008, Gilad has worked as a community mobilizer with a focus on connecting audiences to urgent and compelling stories through multimedia arts.

    In 2012, Gilad founded JAYU, an award-winning Toronto-based charity that serves the arts community through the annual Human Rights Film Festival, The Hum, a human rights podcast which he produces and co-hosts, as well as the iAM Program, an initiative that provides arts and social justice mentorship to more than 200 equity-deserving youth from across the GTA each year.

    Gilad is deeply passionate about mental health, often speaking about it publicly and advocating for better practices in the arts and non-profit sectors. In 2020, this led him to shifting his organization to a 4-day work-week, extended paid sick and vacation leave, and more.

    As a photographer, Gilad specializes in portraits and travel photography.

    He is an alumna of the Toronto Arts Council Leaders Lab and the Rothschild Fellowship at Cambridge University in the UK. He has sat on the Board of Directors for several arts and human rights charities including Global Youth Volunteer Network, Scarborough Arts, and RISE Edutainment. He currently sits on the Board of HanVoice, Canada’s largest North Korean human rights advocacy group.

  • Monica Chi is a Professor in the School of Social and Community Services at George Brown College. She has been teaching in the Social Service Work Program since 2016 and joined the team as a full-time Professor in 2019.

    Monica obtained her B.A. and M.S.W. degrees from the University of Toronto. She has worked in the social service sector for over a decade supporting individuals living with various health and mental health challenges. She was the Executive Director of a community-based nonprofit organization working with new Canadians and refugees of Korean origin. She has extensive experience developing innovative projects to support new Canadians in their settlement journey as well as a keen interest in projects that empower immigrant women experiencing family violence or intimate partner violence.

  • Erica is a brand marketer with 10+ years of experience creating global marketing campaigns. During this time, Erica has worked across various marketing functions, including brand building, media planning, content strategy, social media, partnerships, and PR.

    Erica has volunteered at HanVoice since 2012, focusing on communications, media relations, and events.

  • Chris works in the legal tech domain as a product manager and domain expert. Prior to this, Chris practised law for eight years, primarily in corporate immigration.

    Chris has volunteered at HanVoice since 2008. He served as Executive Director from 2015 to 2021, and Director from 2010 to 2015.