Support Staff

Ria Toffoli

Ria is in charge of our products and our accounting and is absolutely committed to furthering this approach. She brings a wonderful exuberance to the office. Ria attended some of the very first parenting courses given by Dr. Neufeld and her two grown daughters are the beneficiaries. Ria lives in Delta, British Columbia with her husband Mark.

Christie Mackie

Christie is responsible for all event and course registration as well as anchoring the more technical database aspects of our virtual campus, our distance education program and our directed studies program. Christie is a step-mom and is pursuing her graduate studies to further this approach as a professional counselor. We don’t understand her love of databases and affinity for programmers but we’re very pleased with this obsession nevertheless. We benefit greatly from her committed involvement. Christie lives in Vancouver with her partner Reed.

Genevieve Schreier

Genevieve is the event coordinator for Dr. Neufeld, researching the numerous requests and presenting the case for saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Once the decision is made, she is the one that is in charge of all the arrangements with the host organizations. Genevieve also handles some of our translation projects, coordinating all the various players towards a final product. Genevieve comes to this task with a graduate degree in international relations from Brussels university. We benefit greatly from her international savvy and natural diplomatic demeanor. Genevieve lives in Montreal with her very soon-to-be husband Ben.

Roderick Young

Roderick is our programmer and general wizard of Oz, working behind the scenes to create and maintain our technical infrastucture. Not only is he responsible for the technical operation of our virtual campus, our website, our online databases, and our virtual office, he also has to ensure that they all talk intelligently to each other. His background is as a biologist and his day job is teaching in adult education. Roderick lives in Winnipeg with his wife, Pamela, and three amazing homeschooled children.