Marcie Ponte

MARCIE PONTE is the executive director of Working Women Community Centre. Drawing on over 40 years of experience working in non-profit and labour organizations, her pioneering work in community development has had at its core the often invisible needs and untapped potential of immigrant women and girls in Toronto’s diverse communities. She has been a leader in the immigrant women’s movement advocating for multi-ethnic, multi-racial front-line organizations run by and for immigrant women. Marcie has won the City of Toronto Access, Equity & Human Rights Award, and a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.