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Kennedy Stewart

* Tenured SFU professor in the School of Public Policy. * Rated one of Canada’s top professors by Maclean’s magazine. * Awarded PhD from the London School of Economics and Masters from Simon Fraser University. * Policy advisor to national and international governments, including the NDP, British Columbia Local Government Elections Task Force, City of Vancouver Electoral Reform Commission, British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly, British Columbia Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, Great Bear Rainforest Solutions Project, City of Vancouver Mayor’s Office, City of Calgary, and the Vancouver Public Library. * Worked as a waiter, Radio Shack clerk, janitor, printing press operator, at-risk youth worker, planning assistant for the City of Vancouver, and an organizer for a wide range of community groups including the Friends of Hastings Park, Vancouver’s Coalition of Progressive Electors and a volunteer-based project which removed 13 tons of garbage from Burnaby’s Still Creek. * Rock musician for the band ‘State of Mind’ and won three 1991 West Coast Music Awards. * First moved to Burnaby in 1988. * Married to Jeanette Ashe, a political science instructor at Douglas College.