SFU Woodward’s Cultural Unit, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Part-time PhD student, European Graduate School (Communication and Media Philosophy)
Board Member, Vancity Community Foundation
Member, Vancouver City Planning Commission Steering Committee, SFU Center for Dialogue
Am Johal works at SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement in the SFU Woodward’s Cultural Unit. He has previously worked on the Vancouver Agreement in urban economic and social development. He was the co-founder of UBC’s Humanities 101 program and was Chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition. He has been an advisor to two provincial cabinet ministers representing Transportation and Highways and Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers. He has an undergraduate degree in Human Kinetics (UBC) and Commerce (Royal Roads University), an MA in International Economic Relations from the Institute for Social and European Studies in Hungary and is currently a part-time PhD student in Communication and Media Philosophy at European Graduate School in Switzerland. He is on the steering committee of SFU’s Center for Dialogue, a board member with the Vancity Community Foundation and a member of the Vancouver City Planning Commission.