Marian brings 19 years experience in Human Resource and Office and Retail Management to Gambling Awareness Nova Scotia. Marian’s administrative skills were honed at the former T. Eaton Company, Northwood Homecare, and as Provincial Office Manager with the Girl Guides of Canada, Nova Scotia Council.
Marian joined Gambling Awareness Nova Scotia in March 2007.
A graduate of the Media, Information, and Technoculture program at the University of Western Ontario and a past student of Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University, Jen brings a unique combination of media, communication, and visual arts education and experience to GANS. In the past, she has worked with Halifax Film/DHX Media, The Coast, and Western Athletics and the Women's Issues Network at the University of Western Ontario. Jen is passionate about helping to raise awareness and reduce stigma surrounding mental health issues and is thrilled to lend her communication knowledge to GANS.
Jen joined Gambling Awareness Nova Scotia in October 2009.
Kerry has been involved in public issues surrounding gambling in the private, public, and academic sectors for 17 years. In 1993, Kerry acted as co-investigator for the first gambling prevalence study in Nova Scotia and in 1996 helped spearhead the Inter-Provincial Task Force on Problem Gambling. As senior researcher with the Nova Scotia Alcohol and Gaming Authority, Kerry conceptualized, coordinated, and completed many studies designed to measure the impacts of gambling on Nova Scotians. During his tenure, he engaged problem gamblers, their families, and other stakeholder groups. He was also instrumental in creating the Alcohol Gambling Research Laboratory at
Dalhousie University and initiating the Nova Scotia Video Lottery Players Survey, the
first of its kind in the province.
Over the years, Kerry has presented papers and organized and moderated sessions at
international gambling conferences. He peer reviewed educational materials, academic
articles and books, and lectured in gambling studies. Kerry completed his PhD in 2008,
and his work culminated in a book examining the introduction of gambling in Australia,
Canada, and the United States, due for publication in spring 2011. Outside the gambling
sphere, Kerry tutored homeless youth and sat on the Nova Scotia Family Violence
Prevention Initiative between 1994 and 1997. He also participated in the HRM Mayor’s
Roundtable on Violence in 2008.
Kerry joined Gambling Awareness Nova Scotia in August 2010.
