Board

  • Chair

    Tania is a practicing lawyer with years of experience in criminal and environmental law. She first learned about the Waterkeeper movement while doing her master’s degree in environmental law in New York. After returning to Toronto as a young lawyer, Tania started working at Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and developed an early passion for their grassroots advocacy. Tania spent years developing her legal expertise in the field while also scuba-diving around the world. Tania joined SDF in 2025.

  • Vice Chair

    Madhu Nagaraja is a Technology Leader in RegTech, FinTech and Sustainability initiatives. He currently leads and manages the Technology operations division at PointChain Technology USA CA Inc.

    He is now a long-distance swimmer, ultra marathon runner, community organizer, sustainability advocate, Arctexyx Adventure Athlete Ambassador, and the winner of the 2019 Arc’teryx Problem Solvers initiative. Madhu joined the Swim Drink Fish board in 2023 and has been a long-time ambassador.

    Madhu learned to swim as a child in India, in his hometown of Mysore in India. It was there that he first learned about the Great Lakes when he was in the fifth grade. Little did he know what a major role this lesson would later play in his life.

    He is now a long-distance swimmer, ultra marathon runner, community organizer, sustainability advocate, Arctexyx Adventure Athlete Ambassador, and the winner of the 2019 Arc’teryx Problem Solvers initiative. Madhu joined the Swim Drink Fish board in 2023 and has been a long-time ambassador.

  • Board Memeber

    James is an accomplished entrepreneur and outdoor enthusiast who spent 25 years building and scaling media companies across North America, Europe, and Asia. Earlier in his career, he operated a reforestation company across Western and Northern Canada. Today, he pursues his passion for landscape painting as a member of the Untamed Things art collective and serves as Chair of the Onakawana Education Fund.

  • Board Member

    Mark Mattson is one of Canada’s most seasoned environmental lawyers and the founder of several water charities, including Swim Drink Fish. He is also a water quality advisor to the International Joint Commission, a board member for the US-based Waterkeeper Alliance, and a member of Ontario’s Great Lakes Guardians Council. 

    Mark is the former Swim Drink Fish President and Waterkeeper for Lake Ontario..


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  • Board Member

    An accomplished competitive ballroom dancer, Lori is a founding member of the Swim Drink Fish Gala Committee and has been a driving force behind the Swim Drink Fish Gala in Vancouver since 2015. Director of Finance at Delta Group, Lori runs all financial aspects of the group’s high profile development projects.

  • Francisca is the President and Founder of Quinn+Partners. For almost 25 years, she has advised leading companies and investors on climate change and sustainability strategies. She is proud to have shaped a consulting model where Q+P is a trusted advisor in all aspects relating to sustainability, working with boards, C-suite executives and functional teams to implement change and measure results. 

    Francisca serves as a board director and chair of the ESG committee at TSX-ventures listed Canada Nickel Company, a mining company aspiring to achieve net-zero carbon emissions from its Ontario nickel production. She also serves on the board of the Responsible Investment Association and is an advisory board member of the CFA Society Toronto and Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Sweden.

    Francisca is personally engaged in environmental issues, impact investing and currently works on her second low-carbon building renovation.