HALIFAX — Women in Film and Television – Atlantic (WIFT-AT) announced yesterday it hired Joanne Kerrigan (above) as the organization’s first-ever executive director.
Kerrigan comes to WIFT-AT “from a varied background that encompasses strategic leadership, filmmaking, communications and marketing, change management, and non-profit governance,” says a press release.
“Joanne has led, volunteered, and worked for many Atlantic Canadian artist-run centres and arts organizations, including the Khyber Centre for the Arts, Linda Joy Media Arts Society, Moving Images Group, and the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative,” the release reads.
Kerrigan has also worked in many positions in public service business transformation, “most recently leading the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre in organizational renewal as their interim executive director. Social justice, inclusion, and healing are at the heart of her engagements,” the release says.
“When we began our search for the inaugural executive director of WIFT-AT, the board created a wish list that we could only dream to find in one person,” said Brittany Kerr, chair of the WIFT-AT board of directors, in the press release.
“To our delight, Joanne embodied everything we were looking for and more in the person who will lead the organization into its next chapter. We are thrilled to welcome her to WIFT-AT and to see the board’s vision come to life over the coming year,” she said.
“I am delighted to be joining WIFT Atlantic,” Kerrigan said. “I have always found it to be an impressive organization, and what they’ve created is so important. The opportunity to build and evolve this work is so exciting.”
WIFT-AT is a non-profit professional association of more than 200 industry professionals that works to expand representation and gender equity in film, television and screen-based media based in Atlantic Canada.
Photo supplied by WIFT Atlantic.
