Charmain Emerson

Charmain is the Founder and Managing Director of her own consulting company, Cultured Communications, where she provides marketing and communications counsel to senior management teams to support a variety of organizational strategic plans. Prior to this, she held a series of senior leadership roles at organizations spanning communications, higher education and retail.

Charmain is also the Co-Founding Director of the Black Opportunity Fund, a national organization designed to combat systemic discrimination and anti-Black racism in Canada by building a sustainable long-term pool of capital. As an active member of the steering committee and the executive lead on marketing and communications, she is responsible for generating awareness and building long-term relationships with external partners to help support the organization’s mission.

A supporter of the arts Charmain serves as a board director for Soulpepper Theatre Company and is a member of the advisory board for Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Onsite Gallery at OCAD University and a director on the board for the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion.

Charmain holds a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University.