Accessibility advisory panel

Carrie joined the Accessibility Advisory Panel as Chair in 2023. She has a key leadership role in Canada Post’s ESG strategic vision to deliver sustainable and responsible growth and value. This includes championing accessibility across the company and integrating an accessibility lens within the broader corporate Transformation Plan and ESG Strategy.

Canada Post is committed to playing a leading role on the environment and key social issues facing the country, including accessibility. In her role, Carrie is critical in supporting the company’s objective to elevate the impact of ESG and integrate it into all areas of the business. This effort builds ESG value-based principles into planning, decision making and execution across the Corporation, and ensures that accessibility is factored into all programs and services at the outset.

Carrie oversees Canada Post’s Accessibility team as part of the Corporate Sustainability ESG team, as well as the Corporate Compliance and Regulatory Affairs team.

Since joining Canada Post in 2006, Carrie has held a variety of progressively more responsible positions, including manager roles in Product Development, Process Design & Continuous Improvement, and End-to-End Projects with Address Management. She was also Director, Digital Integration; General Manager, Integration and Planning; and, most recently, Executive Chief of Staff to the President and CEO.

Carrie received her Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Marketing and International Management from the University of Ottawa.

Meenu Sikand is the executive lead of equity, diversity and inclusion at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and the co-chair of the inaugural IDEA Task Force (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility), which is part of Holland Bloorview’s action plan to address systemic racism within and outside of the hospital. She is also the founder and CEO of Accessibility for All, a non-profit organization that works to identify, address and meet the needs of marginalized communities. Previously, Meenu worked within corporate, government, non-profit and academic sectors.

Meenu’s volunteer roles underscore her commitment to diversity and to creating enabling conditions that facilitate inclusion. She is an active member of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Diversity Advisory Council and the Disability without Poverty Leadership team. Meenu has been appointed as a member of the Accessibility Standards Advisory Council of Ontario by the Minister of Seniors and Accessibility and is one of the founding members of Race and Disability Canada (RAD).

In 2020, Meenu was the first South-Asian Woman to be inducted into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame. She also received an award from the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) as Senior Executive of the Year.

Jewelles Smith is the Communication and Government Relations Coordinator with the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), and is an advisor to the board of directors of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS).

Jewelles completed training with Disability Rights Promotion International in 2009 and completed the Women’s Human Rights Institute 6-week training in 2012. She was part of the Canadian Civil Society delegation to Geneva during Canada’s first review of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD) in 2017. She was a member of Canada’s delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) in 2019.

Jewelles is a PhD candidate at UBC Okanagan. Her dissertation focuses on understanding the experiences of disabled mothers in Canada through a human rights lens. Jewelles is a feminist disability activist, scholar, writer, and artist.