Staff

Bill Moore-Kilgannon, Executive Director

Bill Moore-Kilgannon is the Executive Director of Public Interest Alberta. Prior to joining Public Interest Alberta, he worked in Ottawa as the Director of Campaigns and Communications of the Council of Canadians from 2001 - 2004, and he was the Executive Director of the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta from 1997 - 2001. He was the coordinator of the Global Visions Festival from 1992 - 1997 and is also a documentary video maker (his most recent production is a video about the music, art and theatre of street children in Nicaragua). Bill studied Canadian and Latin American history, political science and economics at the University of Alberta and l'Unversité de Sherbrooke, and speaks both French and Spanish.

Karen Werlin, Office Manager

Karen is the Office Manager of Public Interest Alberta. Before joining PIA, she was on staff at the Alberta Federation of Labour for 27 years. A life-long activist, she served her union in many capacities, including as president of her local and as regional officer on the National and International Executive Boards. She played an important role in transforming the union into an all Canadian organization, the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union.

Over the years Karen has served on various committees including the AFL Women’s Committee, the Executive Board of the Edmonton & District Labour Council and the Edmonton May Week Festival Committee. She is currently involved with the Alberta Labour History Institute and sings with Notre Dame de Bananes, Edmonton's own left-wing socialist choir.

Kathryn Lennon, Communications Assistant

Kathryn Lennon joined Public Interest Alberta as Communications Assistant in February 2012. Born and raised in Edmonton, she is a prairie girl with wandering feet. Prior to joining Public Interest Alberta, her work focused on food justice and community gardens for immigrant communities in southwestern Ontario. She has worked with the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians, the Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre, and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.  She currently volunteers as a radio journalist with Terra Informa, an environmental news show on CJSR, and with the Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative. She is also a participant in Next Up, a youth leadership program. Kathryn is a graduate of the Mahindra United World College of India (2003-2005), and a recipient of the Loran Award (2006). She holds a Bachelors of Environment and Resource Studies from the University of Waterloo. She is trying to improve the bits of Spanish, French and Mandarin she speaks.