Next Up

Kevin is the Co-founder and the past Executive Director of Next Up.  He is currently an advisor to the Next Up programs.

Over the last ten years Kevin has focused on building the capacity of young social change leaders across Canada, food security and climate change work.

Kevin has driven social change both locally and nationally. As the former Director and Co-founder of Check Your Head, he worked with thousands of high school age youth to become involved in global justice issues and through Get Your Vote On – a non-partisan campaign that he co-founded in 2004 - has run campaigns to register thousands of young people to vote in BC elections. He’s dabbled in municipal politics where he served as a Vancouver School Board Trustee. While a Trustee he drafted one of Canada’s strongest policies protecting students from advertising in schools.

Kevin worked for 6 years as the Vancouver School Board's first Sustainability Coordinator and moved to working full time with Next UP and the global youth education network in 2015. He lives and works in Vancouver on the shared lands of th xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Coast Salish peoples, speaking and leading workshops on social change and public engagement for unions and other progressive organizations across the country.

Other stuff: Kevin is a Dialogue Associate with The Simon Fraser University Centre for Dialogue, a Fellow with the Broadbent Instituteand serves as an advisor with Upstream, the Small Change Fundand The Centre for Civic Governance. He currently serves as the Chair of the BC Board of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the board of Theatre for Living. Kevin is the Executive Director and cofounder of the Regeneration Learning Society, which offers capacity building programs to climate leaders.