Amanda Demmer

Amanda has practiced and promoted community-based approaches to research and evaluation within community, not-for-profit, and government spaces since completing her Master of Arts in Community Psychology in 2015. Amanda holds designation as a Credentialed Evaluator (CE) by the Canadian Evaluation Society and has specialized in applying participatory approaches to evaluating community-led mental health initiatives. In addition to serving as the Executive Director of Community-Based Research Canada, Amanda is an Adjunct Researcher within the Centre for Community, Health, & Social Impact at Lambton College, and Instructor for the University of Guelph's Certificate in Knowledge Mobilization, and a Sessional Lecturer in the University of Waterloo's School of Public Health Sciences.

Amanda has extensive experience in planning, conducting, and mobilizing the results of program evaluations and community-based research, as well as expertise in course design, course instruction, and workshop development and facilitation on topics including community-based research, program evaluation, and knowledge mobilization. Amanda promotes research as a tool for innovation that can advance social justice, equity, and community and individual wellbeing.