Board of Directors

Passages Centre is governed by a dedicated group of volunteers who believe in the centre and all we’re working towards. We are always looking to expand our Board of Directors. If you’re interested, please reach out!

Nour Ramzi, MSW (she/her) — Co-Chair

Community engagement has been Nour's M.O. for as long as she can remember. When she moved to Toronto in 2017, she found comfort and joy in pockets of community that pushed her to grow in her own path. Her experience working in the Toronto theatre scene for several years taught her the value of harnessing your peers' strengths and talents for their own growth but also the growth of the community. Her academic journey, from an undergraduate degree in Health Studies to a Master’s in Social Work, further shaped her understanding of the bigger picture—how the Social Determinants of Health influence well-being, and how systems we often take for granted have evolved. Over the past seven years, Nour has cultivated strong relationships in Toronto, from volunteering at a reproductive healthcare center to completing her Advanced Placement at Passages. These experiences continue to push her to challenge the way things are and explore how things could be. Imagine a community where people are able to learn, grow, and thrive alongside others, with their backgrounds, experiences, and skills celebrated as opposed to stifled. Sounds pretty neat, doesn't it?

Since completing her MSW, Nour has become a Registered Social Worker, and has been working in social services supporting newcomer youth as they transition to their new homes, and is a staunch advocate for community-based solutions. She also leads/organizes several community programs and events in her time outside work, and enjoys crocheting and boxing.

Sudha Datta, CPA, FCIB, FCSI (he/him) — Treasurer

Sudha has worked for over 20 years as Head of Operations with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), a sovereign wealth fund with investments across sectors, geographies, and asset classes. He helped start a securities lending program for the first time in 2001 for the authority and managed relationships with the custodians, securities lending agents and other vendors.  He received the “Industry Legend” award in November 2016 from Global Custodian magazine for his outstanding service in the financial services industry globally.

He is co-founder and Managing Partner of Soterium Inc., a consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada and currently advises pension funds, family investment offices, sovereign wealth funds, and other asset owners on securities lending, custody, and investment operations. 

Sudha is a founder member and Director of TSSAG , a post trade advisory group.

Mr. Datta is an associate of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA), a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, U.K, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments, U.K. He is a distinguished toastmaster (DTM) and a long-standing member of Toastmasters International. Mr. Sudha Datta currently holds board and committee positions in various non-profit organizations.

Ivan Beeckmans (he/him) — Communications Lead

Ivan is a veteran international school teacher with experiences taking him from the Canadian Arctic to Mexico, China, Thailand and back to Toronto. His interest in teaching was sparked by his love of being a camp counsellor where the hours were long, rewarding and fulfilling. Throughout his career the initiatives he liked the most were project based, ungraded and learner directed.

Recently, in roles that involved pursuing innovation, Ivan has become more aware of the unschooling movement and the idea of self-directed learning. One of the key aspects to this type of learning is allowing learners to control their learning; what they learn, when they learn it, with whom they learn it, how long they commit to the topic, and a myriad of other choices made when exploring the world. These options have always challenged Ivan as both a teacher and a learner, but now he is excited about the possibility of making self-directed learning a reality for others.

A father of two boys, Ivan tries to instill a love of learning through an appreciation of our natural environment, a commitment to communities, and an understanding of self. He sees the use of modern technologies as an asset to achieving these ends.

Ivan plans to bring his wealth of world experiences, sprinkled with ample amounts of kindness, to Passages with the goal of making this type of learning available for all.

Dieter Limeback, CPCC (he/him) — Secretary

Dieter has over 20 years of ex­pe­ri­ence as a soft­ware de­signer, ed­u­ca­tor, and se­nior leader in the fast mov­ing tech­ in­dus­try. On the side he has a coach­ing prac­tice, which helps highly cre­ative in­di­vid­u­als grow ful­fill­ing ca­reers, am­bi­tious en­tre­pre­neurs reach the next level, and build high func­tion­ing teams in com­pa­nies of all sizes.

After a ca­reer spent grow­ing in­di­vid­u­als, as well as be­ing mar­ried for 20 years and homeschooling/unschooling two teenagers, Dieter now be­lieves that achiev­ing re­sults you can be proud of starts with know­ing and con­nect­ing to your au­then­tic self, and striv­ing for a sense of deep ful­fill­ment and whole­ness.

He looks forward to bringing his tech and coaching specialties to the Passages Community and supporting families with this important lifestyle choice.

Tara Evans (she/her) — Passages Parent Rep

As a mixed-race Black woman, Tara's embodied commitment to anti-racism, anti-oppression, and decolonization is rooted in her lived experience as a survivor of gender-based violence, a racialized queer, single mother, a mental health consumer/survivor as well as a Neurocomplex.

Sitting at the intersections of multiple identities, particularly the newly discovered ancestral connection to Acadia and The Mi'kmaq (1600s), has been both painful and traumatic for Tara; however, as well as empowering and transformative.

For over 10 years, Tara has been honoured to provide Advocacy, Case Management, System Navigation, Release Planning and Court Support and Crisis Intervention to a diverse population of youth and young adults in Mental Health and Justice, Child Welfare and Permanency, Mental Health and Addictions, and currently, youth and adults accessing crisis support from the Toronto Community Crisis Service. As a helping professional, Tara's commitment to providing client-centered care with empathy, compassion, and dignity is unwavering!

Tara proudly calls herself a lifelong learner and a nerd. On her bucket list is to one day take another shot at a PhD. Tara has an inquisitive mind and an innate desire to gain as much knowledge as possible about the multiple forms of oppression she is committed to dismantling. This knowledge aids in taking steps toward building equitable systems (health, education, judicial, mental health and addiction) while at the same time dismantling oppressive structures to build systems rooted in an embodied commitment to always striving to see each other's humanity, first and foremost, and to improve the quality of life for all those whose basic needs and dignity have been denied.

Tara is a graduate of The University of Toronto with an Honours BA in Criminology and Women's Studies and a research-based Master of Arts in Criminology.