Emily Galer

Vice Chair
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Emily is a talent management leader with deep experience in complex global and national organizations. She is passionate about empowering people and organizations to reach their full potential. She seeks to leverage her skills and experience in her work with the Centre, supporting the Centre’s management, teachers and staff in their mission to empower the children to listen for themselves, speak for themselves and be successful in any environment they choose – regardless of their family’s ability to pay.

Emily currently serves as the Director, Human Resources for Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), in Vancouver. Originally from Sydney, Australia, with law degrees from The Australian National University and The University of Texas at Austin, she is currently working on her Certificate in Advanced Strategy through the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. Emily began her career working as a lawyer in New York City. She now lives in East Vancouver with her BC-grown husband and two young sons.