Carolyn Rowan

Community Projects Coordinator, The STEPS Initiative

Carolyn Rowan is an urban planner and a passionate believer in the potential for culture and art to effect and express change. As the Community Projects Coordinator at The STEPS Initiative and The PATCH Project, she is always seeking to develop creative relationships and collaborate with people of all ages and abilities to build understanding. Her professional expertise has largely focused on community engagement. In this capacity, she has worked as a First Nations relations liaison at Brown and Associates Planning Group in Calgary. More recently, she served as Content Coordinator for Thoughtspot, a crowdsourcedmapping project which consolidated mental health and wellbeing resources for post-secondary students around the Greater Toronto Area. Carolyn’s research on the use of social media as a civic engagement tool has been featured by the American Planning Association Technology Division’s journal, the Ontario Professional Planners Institute’s 2014 Symposium, and the Region of Peel Researchers’ Network. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Cultural Studies from McGill University, as well as an MSc. in Urban Planning from the University of Toronto.

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