Nora Lacey is a senior marketing and communications strategist with over 35 years of experience spanning both private and public sectors. She has led national campaigns in the Canadian airline and telecommunications industries, as well as in Doha, Qatar.
Upon returning to New Brunswick, Nora led marketing and communications initiatives for the province’s beverage alcohol retailer and economic development sectors before joining the New Brunswick Medical Society as Chief of Physician and Patient Engagement.
Prior being elected to the CLA board in 2019, Nora served as the vice chair of the board of directors of the New Brunswick Lung Association.
Board Roles and Committees
Chair, Board of Directors
Member, Advocacy & Advancement Committee
Member, Finance, Audit & Risk Committee
Member, Governance & Nominating Committee
Member, National Research Steering Committee
Co-chair, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Why Nora Volunteers with CLA
“My commitment to this cause is deeply personal, inspired by my own experience with a lung tumor diagnosis. This drives me to raise awareness and effect meaningful change.”
Margaux McDonald is an experienced Canadian diplomat, specializing in international trade and investment. She currently oversees a global climate finance team at Global Affairs Canada. Previously, Ms. McDonald was the Head of the Afghanistan Task Force, Canada’s Senior Trade Commissioner to Pakistan, Chief of Staff to Canada’s Chief Trade Commissioner, and Reverse Mentor to the Deputy Minister of Trade.
Ms. McDonald served as a director at the Broad Institute, a world-renowned biotech institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Presidential Management Fellow at Harvard University. She holds a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University.
Board Roles and Committees
Elected in 2023
Vice Chair
Co-chair, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Member, Advocacy & Advancement Committee
Why Margaux volunteers with CLA
“My commitment to the Canadian Lung Association is deeply personal, given my family’s battle with lung disease and our intergenerational dedication to lung health across Canada. It’s also intimately connected to a love of family, especially two little humans of my own. I’m enthusiastically committed to ensuring that that the lung health of Canada’s youngest generation will endure.”
Alayne Crawford is an accomplished strategic communications, government relations and corporate affairs executive who currently serves as a Go-To-Market Leader on IBM Canada Consulting’s Federal Public Sector team.
Ms. Crawford has previously held positions with the Prime Minister’s Office, the Office of Minister of State for Seniors (former HRSDC), the Canadian Automobile Association and Shaw Communications.
Ms. Crawford lends her time and expertise to a number of organizations and is currently a board member of Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) as well and as the Collège La Cité, and is a long-standing Program Fellow for the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management at Carleton University.
Ms. Crawford previously sat on the board of the Government Relations Institute of Canada, including a term as president, was a member of the Politics and the Pen Gala committee from 2013 to 2020, a founding member of the Canadian Advocacy Network and co-created The Company We Keep podcast in 2022.
Board Roles and Committees
Elected to the CLA board in 2023
Chair, Advocacy & Advancement Committee
Member, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Why Alayne volunteers with CLA
“My father was diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) in the fall of 2021. I organized a charity run to raise awareness and funds for lung health in Canada. During my father’s (far too) short battle with IPF, CLA made me feel a much-needed sense of connection and support, with the executive leadership taking the time to reach out to recognize the fundraising effort, and later, after my father passed, with heartfelt condolences.
Lung health remains a present and persistent force in my life, making volunteering on the CLA board feel continually relevant – whether it’s navigating an asthma diagnosis for my son, witnessing a friend actively manage a life with COPD, or the impact of lung disease taking yet another family member from us in the fall 2024. Navigating these experiences – and more – leave me with a sense of gratitude for the opportunity to give back via this exceptional organization. And also, it leaves me thankful for the feeling of breath that continues to flow easily through my own lungs.”
Deborah Harri is a corporate governance professional with over 25 years of experience in the corporate governance field. She is a former executive of a major Canadian grain company, including 10 years as Corporate Secretary.
Deborah has served on numerous boards in the not-for-profit and cooperative sectors and has advised boards on how to build a governance framework that adds value.
Deborah holds an honours business degree from the University of Manitoba and director accreditations from the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D) and the Credit Union Institute of Canada (ACCUD). She was awarded the Manitoba Honour 150 Medal in recognition of contributions to the well-being of the community.
Board Roles and Committees
Elected in 2016
Member, Finance, Audit & Risk Committee
Member, Governance & Nominating Committee
Why Deborah Volunteers with CLA
"Both of my sons struggled with asthma as children. But through the dedicated resources of the Canadian Lung Association (CLA), we learned about how asthma affects the lungs and how asthma symptoms could be managed and alleviated. With this knowledge, we were able to minimize trips to the hospital emergency and hospital admissions.
Today, my sons are able to breathe without struggling, but CLA—and its tireless dedication to the advancement of lung health—will always be part of my family’s story. Now, I want other families to access this same invaluable resource to protect and support their lung health."
Paul Havey is a chartered professional accountant who brings over 30 years of strategic financial leadership expertise to the CLA board.
Mr. Havey is currently the Chief Financial Officer of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada. He has held senior financial leadership roles with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, Intelcan Technosystems Inc., the Canadian Automobile Association, Sybridge Technologies Inc. and Emergis.
Mr. Havey sits on the board of the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health.
Board Roles and Committees
Elected in 2023
Treasurer
Chair, Finance, Audit & Risk Committee
Member, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Why Paul volunteers with CLA
“I have a personal connection to lung health and I’m passionate about advancing initiatives that improve the well-being of Canadians.”
Kate is an attorney whose practice focuses primarily on administrative law. Kate acts as independent legal counsel to a large number of administrative decision makers, and represents administrative decision makers in court proceedings relating to their decisions. She provides legal services to agribusinesses and is an arbitrator, a mediator and an administrative appeal adjudicator.
Kate is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, the Edmonton Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association. She volunteers with the Legal Education Society of Alberta
Kate previously sat on the board of Alberta Lung, including serving as its chair, and on the CLA board from 2019 to 2021.
Board Roles and Committees
Elected in 2023
Chair, Governance & Nominating Committee
Why Kate Volunteers with CLA
“As a professional, it’s important to me to give back to the community, and being a member of the CLA Board allows me to do that. I chose CLA because of my family’s lung health issues; I have allergic asthma, and my late mother suffered from COPD for most of her life.”
Dr. Lands is an internationally recognized clinician scientist who studies how to improve functional ability, immunity and exercise tolerance in people of all ages living with inflammatory lung diseases like cystic fibrosis and asthma.
Dr. Lands is Director, Pediatric Respiratory Medicine and Director of the Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the McGill University Health Centre. He is also an attending staff physician in the Quebec Lung Transplant Clinic, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, and the respiratory consultant to the Pediatric Clinic and Adult and Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Clinic, Centre Hospitalier de Rouyn-Noranda.
He is an associate editor for Paediatric Respiratory Reviews and Pediatric Pulmonology.
Dr. Lands was awarded a King Charles III Coronation Medal in 2025 for his significant contributions to lung health in Canada.
Board Roles and Committees
Elected in 2021
Chair, National Research Steering Committee
Why Dr. Lands volunteers with CLA
“I’m vested in promoting healthy lungs across the lifespan through advocacy and research. One of the ways I do this is by developing and supporting CLA’s research programs and Canada’s young investigators to further the prevention and care of lung disease.”
Andrea Power brings three decades of governance and strategic expertise to the CLA board. Ms. Power currently consults in the corporate, post-secondary and not-for-profit sectors; her work has focused on excellence in governance and development and management of policy, procedure and process.
Throughout her career, she has served on a variety of boards at the local, provincial and national levels. Ms. Power has a Bachelor of Commerce, a Diploma in Business Foundations Computer Systems, a Master of Public Administration and numerous certificates and professional designations.
Board Roles and Committees
Elected in 2017
Secretary
Past Chair
Member, Advocacy & Advancement Committee
Member, Governance & Nominating Committee
Why Andrea Volunteers with CLA
“Both of my parents were smokers who died of COPD. They tried to quit, but unfortunately, every attempt was unsuccessful. My mother was a passionate volunteer and giving back was engrained in me; I joined the board of the Lung Association of Nova Scotia in 2014 and the CLA board in 2017. I’m confident that CLA can help to eliminate smoking and save lives. Not my parents, but someone's parents!”
Julia M. Wright, PhD, FRSC, is an interdisciplinary scholar who joined the faculty of Dalhousie University in 2005, where she currently holds the position of Professor and George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric. She has held Canada Research Chairs in Cultural Studies and in European Studies and has published and presented widely. She has also worked extensively in research policy and higher education issues.
Dr. Wright previously served on the boards of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and the Council of Canadian Academies. She was a member of the RSC’s Task Force on COVID-19 and co-chaired its Expert Panel on Connecting Humanities Expertise to Health Policy.
Board Roles and Committees
Elected in 2023
Member, National Research Steering Committee
Member, Finance, Audit & Risk Committee
Why Julia Volunteers with CLA
“Under-informing the public can undermine public health efforts and nurture dangerous misinformation. Independent and clear information, like that the CLA provides, is vitally needed.”
