Know Your Vote T.O. Advisory Group

About the Group

Know Your Vote T.O. is a free, non-partisan resource from Toronto Public Library that helps residents learn about every candidate running for Mayor, City Council, and — new for 2026 — School Board Trustee across all four of Toronto's school boards.

Toronto Public Library is committed to making sure no candidate gets an unfair advantage through Know Your Vote T.O. The Know Your Vote T.O. Advisory Group (KAG) is a group of external advisors who reviewed the project's standards and practices to help confirm that:

• fair, reasonable steps were taken to contact and remind every candidate about the opportunity to take part;
• the questions candidates were asked, and the other information published on the site, are fair, balanced, and reasonable; and
• the standards for candidate submission are reasonable and clearly explained.

This review covered both the Mayor and Council races and, new this year, the School Board Trustee races.

KAG is made up of seven Torontonians representing a range of sectors, communities, and viewpoints. Members volunteer their time and participate as individuals — not as representatives of their employers or any other organization they are affiliated with. Their role is to bring their own experience and judgment to bear on behalf of Toronto residents, not to advocate for any candidate, party, or institutional interest. KAG advises the project team; final decisions rest with Toronto Public Library.

This project follows TPL's Use of Library Resources During an Election Period Policy.

Members

Brittany Andrew-Amofah 

Brittany Andrew-Amofah is the Managing Director of A.M Results, a public affairs consulting firm that specializes in working with social purpose organizations to create better outcomes. She has held various policy, communications and political roles at think tanks, businesses, non-profits and campaigns over the past decade — applying her expertise to Canada's most pressing policy issues. She has been a regular guest on CBC News and has appeared on several Canadian public affairs media programs, including Power & Politics/Sunday Scrum. Her commentary has also been featured in the Globe and Mail, TVO, and the Toronto Star, among other major newspapers and broadcast networks.

Rachel Chen 

Rachel Chen is the Pembina Institute's communications manager, Communities and Decarbonization. Rachel holds a Master of Information in critical information policy studies and a Bachelor of Arts in international relations and English from the University of Toronto. She spent most of her career in the journalism industry, working on making local news financially sustainable, before switching into climate communications. As a freelancer, she dabbles in creative writing but primarily writes on topics like climate change and urban planning for publications including Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, and Vice. She also serves on the board of The Local magazine and recently co-founded the Willowdale Wire to build up hyperlocal news in her neighbourhood.

Jane Hilderman 

Jane Hilderman is a nonprofit leader whose career has focused on strengthening communities, democratic institutions, and decision-making for the public good. As an independent consultant, she provides strategic advice, research, and planning support to foundations and mission-driven organizations tackling complex social and environmental challenges. Jane previously served as Vice President of Public Affairs and Partnerships at Blueprint, where she advanced the use of data and evidence to improve outcomes for Canadians. She was also the founding Executive Director of ClimateWest, helping build climate resilience across the Prairies, and Executive Director of the Samara Centre for Democracy, where she worked to foster a more responsive, inclusive, and participatory Canadian democracy.

Sharif Mahdy 

Sharif Mahdy is an experienced charity leader with nearly 25 years of service in the charitable sector. He brings a strong track record of leadership focused on improving outcomes for young people across Canada. Sharif currently serves as Chief Operating Officer with Pathways to Education Canada, a national charity focused on breaking the cycle of poverty through education. For more than eight years, he served as CEO of the Students Commission of Canada, a national inter-generational charitable organization that works to ensure young people's voices are heard and valued so that their ideas can be put into action. Sharif also brings extensive governance experience across the youth-serving sector. He currently serves as Chair of the National Alliance of Children and Youth (NACY), a national network dedicated to advancing the well-being of children and youth. Sharif also sits on several non-profit boards, including the Child Development Institute and Mentor Canada.

Sree Nallamothu (she/her)

Sree Nallamothu is the Executive Director of Toronto Neighbourhood Centres, a network of non-profit multi-service organizations dedicated to strengthening the conditions that help communities thrive. With a background in filmmaking and community development, her work is rooted in deep listening, relationships, and the wisdom of people's lived experience. She believes that meaningful change happens when people have genuine opportunities to influence the decisions that affect their lives. She is most interested in creating spaces where trust, curiosity, and shared responsibility can grow.

Clement Nocos 

Clement Nocos is the Broadbent Institute's Director of Policy and Engagement, and the Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy. Before joining the Institute, Clem was a policy analyst for the federal government, and has previous experience working on progressive campaigns and in international affairs. As a political economist, he is interested in how varied institutional arrangements between states and markets produce different social, economic, and political outcomes. Clem's writing and analysis has previously appeared in GQ, The Globe and Mail, and Canadian Dimension. He holds a dual Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany and the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy in Japan, as well as a B.A. in History, Political Science and Sociology from the University of Toronto.

Lisa Whittington-Hill 

Lisa Whittington-Hill is the publisher of This Magazine, an award-winning progressive magazine of politics, arts, and culture. She is the coordinator for Centennial College's Publishing — Book, Magazine and Electronic program, which she also teaches in. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Hazlitt, Catapult, and more. She is the author of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women and The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat.