{"id":495,"date":"2021-06-04T15:03:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=495"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:54","slug":"paula-speevak","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/people\/paula-speevak\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Speevak"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Paula Speevak is President and CEO of Volunteer Canada after serving as the Director of Applied Research and Public Policy since 2010. Previously, Paula was Managing Director of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University\u2019s Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development. Most recently, she served as principal investigator for the pan-Canadian study on volunteerism, <em>Bridging the Gap: Enriching the Volunteer Experience to Build a Better Future for our Communities<\/em> (2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2006, Paula has taught undergraduate courses in Governance in the Voluntary Sector and Community Service-Learning (at the University of Ottawa) and a graduate course in Non-Profit Management (in the School of Public Policy and Administration at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sppa\/people\/speevak-paula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read her full bio here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1163,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Paula","cu_people_last_name":"Speevak","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[37],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-495","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-adjunct"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Professor in the MPNL program","cu_people_degree":"MA from the National Voluntary Sector Leaders program (McGill University, Canada).","cu_building":"CU","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/495\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}