The Pivot Foundation is a charitable foundation independent of Pivot Legal Society whose directors and supporters use their personal resources to creative and effective ways of sustaining and advancing the lives of our society's most marginalized people.

Sara Kendall

Sara Kendall is noted for her expertise in group facilitation, arts-based youth empowerment, social justice work, and performance art. Sara is a lead facilitator for Power of Hope and regularly delivers adult trainings for the organization.  She is currently program director for the Vancouver-based LOVE (Leave Out Violence) Program.  Sara leads a community choir called the Cultural Medicine Cabinet and volunteers much of her time to people’s solidarity work within the Americas.  She has served in leadership positions in several arts and social justice based youth organizations and has led initiatives related to youth issues for the City of Vancouver.  All of Sara's work emerges passionately from her dedication to creating bridges - between the head and the heart, and between people of all walks.

Leslie Dickout

Leslie Dickout is currently the Medicare Campaigner with the BC Health Coalition in Vancouver.  Leslie completed her Masters of Science in Planning from the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC in 2004 with a focus on diversity issues and rights of newcomers to the city.  Having worked in the field of social justice and environmental activism for ten years, Leslie has led campaigns to stop the privatization of water on Vancouver Island, monitor regional governance in Vancouver’s Lower Mainland, tackle climate change, and address international trade injustice, human rights and development issues.  Most recently her interests have expanded to explore how social media can assist in movement building and igniting action on the ground.  She currently sits on the board of ACORN Canada’s Citizen Service Society and last year volunteered with PIVOT to organize Justice Rocks.  

Ide Foyle

Before founding an event design and planning company, “Bash” (www.bashcreative.ca), Ide spent 15 years in the Vancouver film industry, specializing in set decoration. She has held senior crew positions on major productions for Disney, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios and ABC. Over the years, she has developed a diverse set of skills that provide her with expertise and knowledge in many areas including crew and contractor management, budgeting, creating and managing timelines, and overall project management. Íde has also honed her skills at remaining calm under pressure, organizational proficiency, creating many diverse environments for any given situation, and continuously providing imaginative and creative solutions. Íde is a graduate of Textile Design and Residential landscape Design and has been a volunteer with Pivot Legal Society for the last 2 years. She has been predominately involved in “Justice Rocks” and “Passion for Justice” 2008 and 2009. 

April Smith

April Smith is a Downtown Eastside Vancouver resident, social media maker and advocate whose previous Board of Experience includes the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, Magdalene Recovery Society and Carnegie Centre.  She also worked as an SRO Building Manager for BC Housing, Bartender and Peer Supervisor for Women’s Drop In at the Health Contact Centre, as well as W2 Community Media Arts Centre Programming Assistant and Project leader for the Fearless Media and for the Fearless City Mobile Project.  April is co-Founder and Producer/Publisher of AHA MEDIA, comprised of independent mobile social media event reporters and new media hyper local citizen journalists. AHA Media specializes in live and in real time, onsite multimedia – new and social media coverage of events through photography/videography, live twitter castings, and livestreaming.  Based in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, AHA Media covers community news and special events & functions with mobile media production and cameraphone capacity. 

Andrea Curtis

Andrea is an event producer and a grassroots organizer who works within the thriving network of Vancouver's active, socially engaged and creative communities.  She has played key roles with Car Free Vancouver, Public Dreams Society, the Work Less Party, Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret and is currently on the scene with Pivot Legal Society (Justice Rocks, Event Manager), and Vancouver Folk Music Festival (Operations Manager.)  Andrea offers her services regularly as consultant to small and large not-for-profits looking for a way to break on to the scene -- whether they're looking to stage a new theatrical work, or launching a creative campaign.  Her passion is creating celebrations for social change that create community and empower us all through beauty, music, art, culture and engagement.

Micheal Ziff

As co-founder of Twice Shy Design, Michael set out to create a clothing company with a conscience, made from organic and sustainable fabrics produced in factories concerned with social justice; the company expanded to kids clothing and corporate merchandising and recently acquired a kids retail store in Vancouver, where he hopes to build a community driven business. For the last three years Michael has organized the Pivot Christmas Party and raised over $13 000 for Pivot while creating a broader awareness of the organization. He also assists in the production of the Justice Rocks event. As a new father and Strathcona resident for the last seven years Michael hopes to see Vancouver evolve into a just and sustainable city and believes it must start by helping those most vulnerable to all the rapid change.

Jacob Hunter

Jacob Hunter is an advocate for drug policy reform and social justice based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Jacob is the Policy Director of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation and sits on the Board of Directors of the BC Civil Liberties Association. Jacob is also the founder and administrator of the activist website WhyProhibition.ca and a member of RightsCity.org editorial board.Though he considers himself a non-partisan progressive, Jacob has volunteered on various political campaigns since 2000, working with like-minded candidates regardless of party affiliation. During the most recent provincial election Jacob served as Campaign Manager for the Green Party in Vancouver-Fraserview, while during the most recent federal election,  Jacob served as Communications Director for the NDP in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country. Jacob attended the University of Northern British Columbia where he studied political science and economics. Jacob lives with his girlfriend, Nicole Seguin, and two dogs, in the West End of Vancouver.

J. Stewart

J. Stewart arrived in Vancouver from Ontario in 1999. He attended BCIT and was later employed in the radio creative departments of Corus Entertainment and what is now CTVglobemedia where he became an award-winning writer. After 7 years he left to take a job at UGM where he is their Manager of Communications & Media Relations. J resides in East Vancouver. He is married to his wife of 8 years and is a new father.

Dana Bass Solomon

Dana Bass Solomon is celebrating her seventh year as CEO of Hollyhock on Cortes Island, B.C. She brings over 21 years of senior management skills in the hospitality and social business arena to her work at Hollyhock. Hollyhock is an internationally renowned centre for cultivation of human consciousness, well-being, and social impact.

Sobey Wing

Sobey Wing has had an interest in social justice since his teenage years when he began to be concerned about anti-nuclear weapons after watching The Day After in Social Studies. From peace movements to his current involvement with the annual global dance for peace, Earthdance International, his focus has increasingly taken him into the realm where celebration is directed towards social change. As a co-founding member of Tribal Harmonix, whose mandate is to support events that promote awareness and social change, he has been involved with organizing the yearly Intention retreats as well to allow social networks of conscious community to get more interconnected. Sobey is also known to present workshops at numerous festivals on Intentional Dance culture related topics including Love Sex Intelligence and Permaculture. He has recently joined on as a director on the board of Burn BC as becoming the regional representative of Evolver Vancouver, part of a growing social network in North America directed towards evolving culture through discussion based events. His future aspirations are to offer custom designed rites of passage for people for all stages of life.   

Rebecca Tay

Originally from Calgary, Rebecca is the Western Editor of FASHION Magazine and a long-time Pivot volunteer.  She is a frequent guest on CityTV's Breakfast Television and Urban Rush on Shaw Cable, and has appeared on CBC Television's Living Vancouver reporting on everything from fashion and beauty trends to celebrity style. Rebecca is also a law student at UBC, and for many years has been a key organizer and promoter of Pivot events including Pivot's Passion for Justice Comedy Burlesque, and the Hope in Shadows project.

Emily Moore

Emily Moore is an award-winning doctoral candidate in Political Theory at UBC, where her work focuses on the use of the performing arts as forms of political resistance and social change. This work arose in response to working in India as researcher of the impact of globalization on traditional artistic communities, as well as CIDA intern with a grass-roots women’s empowerment organization. She has also served on the board of the International Centre of Art for Social Change and the Judith Marcuse Projects since 2005, as its secretary since 2007, where she has also contributed to curriculum design, research, and event coordination. She would dare to identify as a dancer, although most unabashedly when there are no witnesses.