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As Director of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Initiative for Parliamentary and Diplomatic Engagement, Maureen provides outreach and policy orientation to parliamentarians and diplomats for ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University. In addition to the orientation provided to newly-elected Members of Parliament following the 2011, 2015 and 2019 elections, she provides an annual orientation to newly-arrived foreign diplomats to Canada and has organized more than 35 policy events for both communities. She is also a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having lived in Vancouver, New York, Hong Kong, Ottawa, Los Angeles and Washington, Maureen has worked in politics, the media, at Rideau Hall and in government, including as a senior political staffer, national political and current affairs reporter and host for television news, communications advisor and public policy analyst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is Chair of the Parliamentary Centre, a nonprofit organization that has worked in more than 70 countries supporting legislatures to better serve their citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As chair of the national nonprofit organization HIPPY Canada, she led its transition to the Mothers Matter Centre and is now its founding and past chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal and Ontario\u2019s Leading Women Building Communities Award in 2016. Maureen has a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in New York and an Honours B.A. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":618,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Maureen","cu_people_last_name":"Boyd","cu_people_initials":"MB","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[20],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-299","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-fellow"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Fellow","cu_people_degree":"B.A.(Hon) UBC, M.Sc, Columbia University","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"Maureen.boyd@carleton.ca","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":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/engageparldiplo\/","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/299\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}