Board Of Directors
Maddie Di Muccio, President
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Maddie Di Muccio is a former Municipal Town Councillor in Newmarket, Ontario. She has been outspoken regarding transparent and accountable government, appearing on the Michael Coren Show, Newstalk 1010, AM 640, and various print media, such as the National Post and the Toronto Star. Ms. Di Muccio has hosted local lectures on a series of "Empowering" groups of individuals and featuring prominent personalities, and she writes a bi-weekly column on York municipal issues in the Toronto Sun. Her priorities focus on children and youth issues and concerns. Ms. Di Muccio is the parent of three school-age boys.
Gerry Nicholls, Vice-President
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Gerry Nicholls is one of Canada’s most prominent defenders of our economic and political freedoms. For more than twenty years he was a senior officer at the National Citizens Coalition, Canada’s largest independent pro-free market advocacy group. While at the NCC Gerry directed the group’s political strategy and oversaw its communication campaigns. Gerry now works as a freelance writer and as an independent political consultant. His columns on political affairs have appeared national newspapers including the National Post, The Globe and Mail, and the Sun Media chain. Currently Mr. Nicholls is a Senior Fellow with the Democracy Institute. He is the parent of two sons
Monika Gucma-Deras, Secretary-Treasurer
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Mrs. Gucma-Deras gave up her full-time career in public relations to raise her two school-age daughters. After noticing her older daughter's success at her Montessori school, followed by a steep regression in public schools, Mrs. Gucma-Deras home-schooled her daughters for a time - with excellent results. When personal circumstances made it necessary for this family to give up home-schooling, her daughters were placed in a private school. Mrs. Gucma-Deras is involved with community theatre, and recently began teaching dramatic arts at her daughters' school. She is an avid reader and, if additional time became available, Mrs. Gucma-Deras would spend it taking long walks, going to the opera, ballet, and theatre, and taking part in ballroom dancing.
Frank Gue, Director
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Mr. Gue is a retired professional electrical engineer, BSc Alberta, MBA McMaster (Hamilton), who worked in the manufacturing and systems management fields and has written published works on these subjects. Mr. Gue also taught technical and management subjects at the college and university level. Mr. Gue has published a hardcover book on factory management and many articles in various professional periodicals, and he has consulted world-wide on this subject. He has served on provincial education task forces, such as the one for 'Standards of Practice for Teachers" and several education policy advisory councils. Mr. Gue founded Burlington Youth Aid, a crisis intervention service, and Taxpayers Coalition Halton. He has served as member or chair of Hamilton Industrial Education Council and several Provincial education task forces and committees. Mr. Gue and his wife are residents of Burlington.
Marni Soupcoff, Director
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Marni Soupcoff is the Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a registered charity that defends the constitutional rights and freedoms of Canadians in the courts of law and public opinion. Marni is a fourth generation Torontonian, but spent nine years in the United States, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and received her law degree from Stanford University in 2000. Before moving back to Toronto, Marni worked as a lawyer with the Institute for Justice, where she litigated economic liberty and property rights cases. She then went on to spend over a decade as a national newspaper columnist and editor for the National Post and managing editor for blogs at the Huffington Post Canada. Her writing currently appears in the National Post and Regulation magazine. She is also a frequent commentator on national news broadcasts for CTV News Channel and the CBC.
Sarah Warry-Poljanski, Director
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Sarah Warry-Poljanski is a local advocate for education reform and a former Public School Board Trustee Candidate in the city of Hamilton, Ontario. She studied in the field of Addictions and Mental Health and has also received formal trades training in carpentry. Much of her career has been spent working as a counselor for at-risk youth and with school aged children. Sarah has been interviewed in local media such as The Hamilton Spectator, CBC Hamilton and other online and community newspapers about her opposition to school closures and the need for more transparency and accountability from School Trustees, Boards and Government. She has two school aged children and focuses much of her time helping teach her special needs son.
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