Staff

Executive Director Anders Swanson is a multi-disciplinary designer and sustainable transportation policy expert with a impactful history of implementation and innovation related to walking, cycling and all other forms of human mobility. His unique approach combines old fashioned community organizing with politics, a love of innovative technology with a profound curiosity about children’s mobility and data, a solid grounding in international best practices with a unique understanding of human activity in the winter and a penchant for combining science and the art of telling a story. Anders leads the development of BikeWalkRoll and CounterPoint and is co-founder of the Plain

Communications – Healing Trails Brennan Mckay is an Ojibwe from the Pine Creek First Nation, Manitoba located north of Dauphin MB. Completed high school at Dauphin Regional Comprehensive Secondary School (DRCSS) in 2014. Attended Aboriginal School of Dance in 2014-2015, performed at various indigenous events throughout the city of Winnipeg.  Recent 2020 graduate from CDI College with Social Media marketing diploma. Currently, Brennan is the Social Media and Communications Strategist for the Healing Trails project at the Winnipeg Trails Association.   

Project Manager – Healing Trails Janell Henry is an Ojibwe from the Roseau River First Nation (MB.) She completed high-school at ICSP in St.Pierre Jolys in 2009 (MB). Janell’s media experiences started in 2008 as an intern at CKOP 100.5 FM Renegade Rez Radio in her home community. In 2012, Janell graduated from The Mid-Ocean School of Media Arts then continued her studies in the Psychology and Rhetoric, Writing and Communications departments at the University of Winnipeg. During which time, Janell founded The Medicine Wheel of Music promoting Indigenous music airing Sunday mornings on CKUW 95.9 FM. In 2013, Janell

Project Manager, Administrator, Volunteer Extraordinaire, Culture Shifter Leigh Anne Parry is grateful to have spent most of her life on treaty one territory. Much of Leigh Anne’s work has focused on both small-scale and large scale culture shifts and establishing foundations for strong organizations capable of bringing a large group of people’s ideas to fruition. With a keen interest in creative problem-solving and amplifying the aspirations of other people, Leigh Anne approaches much of her work from the perspective of an interdisciplinary artist and collaborator. For the last five years she has collaborated with a team at Winnipeg Trails Association

Active Transportation Planner Santan Singh is from Punjab, India. With a background in Urban and Regional planning from India and a Master’s degree in City Planning from the University of Manitoba, he focuses on the active transportation planning for the Winnipeg Trails Association. Santan is a former City of Winnipeg intern who has researched extensively on transportation planning, age-friendly cities, urban design in winter cities, healthy cities, Indigenous planning and Waste Diversion. Santan also has interests in zoning and subdivisions, land-use planning, GIS mapping and policy planning. Santan appreciates the post-pandemic considerations in the current healing streets project by Winnipeg