PEN Canada for Freedom of Expression

About PEN

President:
Charles Foran
Vice-President:
Randy Boyagoda
Secretary and Chair, Legal Affairs:
Janne Duncan
Treasurer:
Frances Connelly
Chair, Writers in Exile Committee:
Mary Jo Leddy
Chair, Writers in Prison Committee:
Kerry Pither
Chair, National Affairs Committee:
Philip Slayton
Chair, Outreach (Western Canada):
Miki Andrejevic
Chair, Communications:
Diana Kuprel
Chair, Membership:
Mark Medley
Chair, Fundraising:
Sara Angel
Chair, Events:
Becky Toyne
Member at Large:
Jared Bland
Member at Large:
Ian Brown
Member at Large:
Andrew Cohen
Member at Large:
Sarah Elton
Member at Large:
Bruce Walsh
Past President, ex-officio:
Ellen Seligman


About PEN
David Cronenberg
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Mark Kingwell
Naomi Klein
Yann Martel
Rohinton Mistry
Clayton Ruby
PEN is about persistent interventions, letters, phone calls, pressure: all efforts in an endless campaign which writers can’t afford to turn their backs on. For that matter, I don’t think anyone can. - Honorary Patron John Ralston Saul