OUR BOARD
These people volunteer their time to help guide our work.
Director: Jackie Graham (She/Her)
Jackie Graham is a people & culture leader with over 15 years of experience across multiple HR disciplines, recognized for driving strategic initiatives and fostering high‑performance, engaging cultures in fast‑paced environments. She partners closely with senior leaders to navigate and enable complex organizational change. Her career spans the Health Care, Biotech, and Wealth Management sectors, giving her a broad and versatile industry perspective.
Director: Squire Hall (He/They)
Squire Hall is an urban Indigenous professional from the Heiltsuk and Kitasoo Xai’Xais Nations (matrilineally) and half White-Settler (patrilineally), born and raised in so-called East Vancouver. Not only do they bring their lived experience to the board, Squire also brings a decade of dedicated professional experience working within and for urban Indigenous communities, grounded in a deep commitment to service, decolonization, and community-led support.
Squire holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University, majoring in Indigenous Studies with an Extended Minor in Psychology, where they were a repeated recipient of the Aboriginal Community Engagement Award for their significant contributions to the university and broader community.
One of Squire's previous roles was as an Indigenous Cultural Liaison and having witnessed RainCity's work from both inside the organization and within the communities it serves, they are profoundly motivated by the organization's commitment to serving marginalized community members with dignity and respect. Squire's motivation is deeply rooted in a desire to be of service to the very communities to which they belong, and they are passionate about guiding RainCity’s strategic direction through a lens of Indigenous reconciliation, equity, and anti-racist practice.
Director: Michelle Huang (She/Her)
Michelle Huang is a union-side labour lawyer who is committed to using the law as a tool to harness the power of the collective and to uplift those struggling under society’s oppressive structures. A significant portion of Michelle’s current legal practice comprises human rights matters and supporting workers’ rights to be free from discrimination.
Prior to labour, Michelle advocated on behalf of and alongside low-income tenants and organized low-income tenants against corporate landlords. She also worked closely with repatriated injured migrant workers in systemic litigation to support their continued access to healthcare funded by Ontario’s workers’ compensation regime.
Michelle holds a JD and MA in Sociology from the University of Toronto, and a BA in Sociology and Psychology from McGill University. In her free time, Michelle enjoys reading, live music, and dabbling in pottery and film photography.
Michelle is thrilled to return to her passion for housing-support work in this role with RainCity. She looks forward to learning from and serving those leading this work as best as she can.
Chris has a passion for governance and strategic management and is thrilled to serve RainCity in this role.
Director: Julia Kaisla (She/They)
Julia Kaisla MA has over 15 years of experience working in B.C.’s mental health and substance use sector. Today, she works as the Executive Director at the Community Action Initiative of BC (CAI), a non-profit organization committed to transforming how we address mental health and substance use (MHSU) challenges in B.C. through trust-based granting, immersive community engagement, and capacity building. Prior to joining CAI, Julia worked as the Executive Director at the Canadian Mental Health Association North Shore branch where she worked alongside the provincial office of CMHA to co-create the province’s crisis response program (now called CRCL). She also worked closely with partner communities and knowledge keepers across the province to build a curriculum for Indigenous peer support, and was instrumental in launching a regional peer program across the Nations in the Southern Coast.
Before her secondment into the non profit sector, Julia worked for over ten years in the private sector. Throughout her career, she has served on several Boards including the Aboriginal Mothers Centre, CMHA BC, and Burnaby Community Connections. Julia holds a Master of Arts degree in Conflict Analysis from Royal Roads University and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from UBC. Outside of work, Julia’s passions involve everything to do with food, being in the forest with her family, and travel. She is a mixed race settler living and working on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Chair: Chris Little (She/Her)
Chris Little is a CPA, CA with over 20 years of finance, operations and strategic management experience. Over the course of her career Chris has worked in public practice, industry, a variety of consulting roles and has now followed her passion to the not-for-profit sector.
Chris is currently the Vice President of Corporate Services at the Vancouver Foundation. Prior to that she was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance at MakeWay, project management consultant at Vancity, co-founder and Director of Operations at Reconciliation Canada and Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP.
Chris has a passion for governance and strategic management and is thrilled to serve RainCity in this role.
Director: Katrina May (She/Her)
Katrina is the Director of Project Generation at Catalyst Community Developments Society, where she leads values-aligned partnerships and oversees acquisitions, feasibility, and business planning for social-purpose real estate projects. She holds a Master of Community and Regional Planning from UBC (SCARP) and has 12+ years of experience in planning, development consulting, public engagement, public relations and purpose-built rental housing.
Katrina is committed to expanding equitable, dignified, community-rooted affordable and supportive housing through innovative partnerships and sector capacity-building. She has contributed to the advancement of more than 1,000 new rental homes and community spaces for Catalyst and over 40 non-profit and municipal partners in B.C.
She is an experienced public speaker and active volunteer, previously serving on the City of Vancouver’s Development Permit Board Advisory Panel and with the Urban Land Institute’s Young Leaders Group.
Director: Kylie Mcmullan (She/Her)
Kylie McMullan, PhD, is the Principal of Finch Media and is a seasoned public relations and marketing strategist with experience both client-side and in agency. She has supported communications and marketing for organizations including Johnson & Johnson, Doctors of BC, and Nature’s Path Organic Foods, and has guided campaigns for Celestial Seasonings, Happy Planet Juice, and Cadillac Canada.
An instructor of public relations, Kylie also co-authored Canadian PR for the Real World, the first Canadian-based public relations textbook. Her contributions to the field have earned her recognition including being inducted in Marketing News Canada’s Marketing Hall of Fame and nominated as a BIV 2018 Top Forty Under 40. Her agency, Finch Media, was nominated as a YWCA Women of Distinction Award Outstanding Workplace.
A respected voice in the industry, Kylie’s thought leadership has appeared in The Globe and Mail, BC Business, Daily Hive, and The Georgia Straight.
Director: Kylie Mcmullan (She/Her)
Kylie McMullan, PhD, is the Principal of Finch Media and is a seasoned public relations and marketing strategist with experience both client-side and in agency. She has supported communications and marketing for organizations including Johnson & Johnson, Doctors of BC, and Nature’s Path Organic Foods, and has guided campaigns for Celestial Seasonings, Happy Planet Juice, and Cadillac Canada.
An instructor of public relations, Kylie also co-authored Canadian PR for the Real World, the first Canadian-based public relations textbook. Her contributions to the field have earned her recognition including being inducted in Marketing News Canada’s Marketing Hall of Fame and nominated as a BIV 2018 Top Forty Under 40. Her agency, Finch Media, was nominated as a YWCA Women of Distinction Award Outstanding Workplace.
A respected voice in the industry, Kylie’s thought leadership has appeared in The Globe and Mail, BC Business, Daily Hive, and The Georgia Straight.
Vice Chair: Kendra Milne (She/They)
Kendra Milne is a lawyer who works to use the law to create positive social change, particularly to support people who have traditionally been marginalized or disempowered in their communities. She currently leads the mental health and substance use-related policy work at a large provincial non-profit organization, and has previously worked to reform law and policy to better support intersectional gender equality, economic security and housing security in BC.
For many years Kendra ran a busy anti-poverty administrative law practice focused on the human rights of people living in poverty, during which she worked directly with hundreds clients throughout BC to advocate for their rights before decision-makers ranging from the residential tenancy branch to the Supreme Court of Canada. That experience deeply entrenched Kendra’s commitment to value the expertise that individuals hold about their own lives, needs and experiences.
Kendra is excited to join the RainCity board given the organization’s commitment to equity, transparency and recognizing the strengths of every person.
Director: Laura Track (She/Her)
Laura is a human rights lawyer at a busy non-profit legal organization. She represents complainants in cases before the BC Human Rights Tribunal and assists people to understand and assert their legal right to be free from discrimination. Laura has long been committed to using the law and her legal education to advance human rights, equality, and access to basic needs. She has worked on constitutional and human rights cases advancing the right to housing, prisoners' rights, racial justice, and freedom from gender-based violence, and fought for law and policy reform in areas including family law, accountability of law enforcement agencies, and access to legal aid.
Laura enjoys spending time in nature and exploring the beautiful lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, where she is privileged to have grown up. She is inspired by RainCity's commitments to reciprocity, connection, and ongoing learning, and delighted to serve on the RainCity board of directors.