Sherri Torjman

Vice President, Caledon Institute of Social Policy

Website: http://www.caledoninst.org
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Sherri Torjman is Vice-President of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy. She has written in the areas of welfare reform, customized training, disability income and supports, the social dimension of sustainable development, and community-based poverty reduction. Sherri is the author of the book Shared Space: The Communities Agenda. She has also written many Caledon reports on social policy and sustainable development issues.

In 2010 Sherri was selected as a recipient of the Top 25 Canadians Award from the Canadian Association of Retired Persons. Sherri was co-Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee on Tax Measures for Persons with Disabilities that reported to the Minister of Finance and the Minister of National Revenue in December 2004. She has worked for the House of Commons Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped, the House of Commons Special Committee on Child Care, and the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies.

Sherri taught a course in social policy at McGill University and is a former Board Member of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.