Caroline Brunt has been a Registered Nurse for 42 years. She was trained in London, UK and her nursing experience includes intensive care, neurosurgery, palliative care, and outreach nursing with street populations. For the last 10 years she has been working as a nursing instructor at Vancouver Community College.

Caroline’s interest in end of life and MAID spans over 40 years of nursing and working with and helping people with end-of-life issues in hospital and community settings.

Cynthia Clark is a trained executive coach, skilled communicator, and passionate advocate for open, compassionate conversations around death and dying—especially with children. Her journey with MAID became deeply personal when she supported her husband through it in 2019 following his diagnosis with brain cancer, and again in 2023 when her father made the same choice. These profound experiences have shaped her mission to help others navigate end-of-life decisions with honesty, courage, and care.

In 2023, Cynthia curated and co-authored The Many Faces of MAID, a thoughtful and supportive resource for individuals and families facing end-of-life choices. Known for her warmth, empathy, and ability to connect, Cynthia brings both heart and experience to the conversations that matter most.

She has worked as a management consultant across North America and Europe, and holds a business degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Robin Farr joined MFSS as a volunteer after supporting her dad through MAID in 2021 and realizing how little support there was for families. She joined first as a peer support volunteer and then took on the coordinator role before joining the organization’s first board of directors.

In her other life, Robin holds a BA as well as a master’s degree in professional communications and is working towards a master’s in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on organizational development and leadership. She is the HR director for a mental health organization. Robin lives in Calgary, Alberta with her two kids and a dog.

Jasmin Alexander, a Certified Project Management Professional and Certified Product Manager, holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration. After nearly two decades with a BC credit union, she recently moved to Germany where she remains active in the payment industry.

In her free time, Jasmin enjoys reading and travelling. She continues to support MFSS in various capacities.

Signy Novak’s dad used MAID in 2018 and this was the most profound experience of her life. During this process she realized there was minimal support available for family and friends supporting someone on the MAID journey and that inspired her to start MAID Family Support Society.

Signy is very proud to be a Registered Nurse for 35 years. She received her diploma at Vancouver General Hospital followed by her degree at UBC. Signy currently teaches Nursing at Vancouver Community College and considers it a privilege to be working with students and having the opportunity to share her MAID experience with them.

Signy is very passionate about providing families with lived-experience peer support, and she brings her own lived experience with MAID to her work on the board, keeping the needs of families at the forefront.

As a physician in palliative care for the final 20 years of her career, Pauline Abrahams had the opportunity for many discussions with individuals and their families about futile treatments and suffering at the end of life. Many, including her mother, wanted to “end it all,” however MAID was not available at that time. From these experiences she was an early advocate of MAID and supported her father-in-law in that decision as well as other friends with family members going through the process.

Pauline is delighted to be involved with an organization that offers community support for a life transition that is more a part of the life cycle than a medical intervention. Her hope is to help normalize MAID in the community in general as a healthy personal choice for irremediable suffering.