Tiffany Circle Anniversary Event - Speakers

Linda M. Phillips PhD, MR retired from the University of Alberta. Her early work focused on systematic research into children's cognitive development in reading, which involves several brain regions. Linda’s training and work expanded to use diffusion tensor imaging of the brain white matter to understand brain function connectivity.

Linda held a Killam Fellowship, was the first Beauchamp Laureate, and is one of only two Centennial Professors at the University of Alberta. She has published 21 books, 35 chapters, handbooks, encyclopedia entries, and 72 articles in the top-tier social and medical sciences journals. In July of 2024, Linda was named Top Scholar by ScholarGPS for her “strong publication record, the impact of her work, and the notable quality of her contributions which placed her in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide”.

Linda is honoured to be a member of Tiffany Circle. Her interest in and dedication to helping others started as a young child, grew to sharing science to help others and to opening minds to the potential around us. The future success of the Tiffany Circle to improve the lives of others calls us to accept challenges, to inspire others in the accomplishment of our humanitarian goals, and to persevere regardless of the daily rapid changes in the world. The Tiffany Circle can and will succeed.

Award-winning agricultural journalist Rosalie I. Tennison has never forgotten her rural roots. Her long career has taken her from rural weekly newspapers to a small-town radio station to agricultural trade magazines to the communications department of the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Manitoba. She is the recipient of a gold citation from the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation and is a gold-medal winner of a 2022 Canadian Online Publishing Award. While she loves meeting producers in the fields where they work, she enjoys returning to the warmth of her Winnipeg condo to curl up with her cat and a good book.

Shari Lovelock is the Senior Director, Campaigns, Major Gifts and Planned Giving for the Canadian Red Cross. In this role, Shari oversees the direction of the Canadian Red Cross’ overall development and management of the Transformational Campaigns, Major Gift and Planned Giving channels at the Canadian Red Cross, including the leadership and oversight to the Time to Act Campaign and Tiffany Circle Women’s Philanthropy Program. Prior to joining the Red Cross in March 2023, Shari held a variety of not for profit leadership and progressive philanthropic positions across a wide variety of sectors and roles.