2010-2011 GWAC Directors in alphabetical order.   Click on members’ names for bios.

• Graham Anderson
• Selena Couture   (Recording Secretary)
• Annwen Davies
• Tom Durrie   (President)
• Dan Fass   (Communications Secretary)
• Bing Jensen
• Brenda "Poesy" Koch
• Craig Ollenberger
• Richard Penneway   (Treasurer)
• Petronella Vander Valk

Graham Anderson is a student in Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University and an associate at Climate Smart, a social enterprise that helps organizations measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Graham has been active on environmental and social issues on campus and in his community. He joins GWAC to help build a safe, healthy, and accessible community in Grandview Woodland. Graham is interested in opportunities to improve the neighbourhood by using the street's potential as people space and by creating safer routes for cyclists. From Kamloops originally, he has lived in the Grandview Woodland neighbourhood since 2009.

Selena Couture has been a resident of the Grandview Woodland area since coming to Vancouver in 1991 and a GWAC Board Director since 2008. She has worked as a teacher in alternative schools for 17 years and is on the Board of Directors for Arts in Action, with a special responsibility for the Purple Thistle Project, an independently-funded youth resource centre located in Grandview Woodland. She has volunteered with the Commercial Drive Festival since it started. She is a member of the Cooperative Auto Network and an avid cyclist. She is particularly concerned with keeping the neighbourhood a vibrant, pedestrian/cyclist friendly, culturally alive urban centre. She loves the Grandview Woodland neighbourhood, has appreciated living here for all of these years and would like to add her support to the area council.

Annwen Davies has lived in the Grandview Woodland neighbourhood with her family since 1985, and a GWAC Board Director since 2009. She has participated in much of what this neighbourhood has to offer, including spending Saturday mornings at Micro Soccer, contributing to the Neighbourhood Traffic Group, and being a board member of East Side Family Place. She is delighted to be a part of this dynamic and vital community. Annwen has spent many enjoyable hours volunteering at Windsor House Parent Participation School and is a board member of the Society for the Advancement of Non-Coercive Education. Prior to her current position working for the Midwives Association of BC, she worked with her husband, Brian Kupser, at his small business, a millwork shop. She feels passionate about making this a wonderful community for all families. Her interests include advocating for youth, creating green space and public space, and working towards sustainability in this region.

Tom Durrie has lived and worked in Grandview Woodland most of the time since 1970. During the early 70s, he was involved in the development of the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Then, in 1981, he formed the Save the York Theatre Society and kept this project in mind until the theatre was finally saved, once and for all, by a decision of City Council in December 2008. The restored and revitalized theatre is expected to re-open some time in 2011. The effect of this new attraction on Commercial Drive between Venables and Hastings is of key interest to Tom. A GWAC Board Director since 2009, while Tom's main interests are around arts and culture, he is also concerned with reduction of automobile traffic, improvement of public transit, and the greening of Venables Street.

Dan Fass has lived in Grandview Woodland since 1989 and became a member of the GWAC Board in 2008. He has a long-standing interest in local community issues and has attended many community meetings and events. He has done voluntary work in Grandview Woodland for many years in human rights, child literacy, and other areas. He was on the Board of Britannia Community Centre (2006–2008) and served on a number of Board committees, including its Executive and its Planning and Development Committee, which oversaw the development of Britannia's 2007 Master Plan. Dan went back on the Planning and Development Committee in April 2010. He is active in a citizen's group which is seeking to preserve three city lots, known locally as "Gibby's Field," as a community greenspace in neighbouring Cedar Cottage.

Bing Jensen has lived in the Commercial Drive area for 18 years. He has served on the GWAC as a Director since the 2005-2006 year. Bing works here as a singer and songwriter. He also does odd jobs for people in the neighbourhood. Community is very important to him. He is for traffic calming, green spaces and the DriveFest and is against through cutting commuter traffic, the twinning of the Port Mann Bridge and the stench of the West Coast Reduction rendering plant. Bing feels it is important to have a balance between the needs of the residents and the needs of the businesses in the community.

Brenda "Poesy" Koch has been a resident of the Grandvie Woodland neighbourhood for 9 years; this is her second year on the GWAC Board. She has worked on a number of social justice oriented research projects in the area as well as working with a number of special needs and at risk youth. She has also worked for a local business for three years. Currently, she is a teacher for the Vancovuer School Board. Brenda is active in the community groups, such as the Carnival Band and Acapellaboratory Community Choir, as both participant and volunteer. She supports community building events such as the Car-Free Festival. She advocates increasing both the sustainability and livability of our neighbourhood while attending to issues of social equity.

Craig Ollenberger, a current director of GWAC, has been living in Grandview Woodland for several years and over that time he has become involved in a number of non-profit initiatives in our community. His interest in being a part of GWAC stems from the important role GWAC can play as a liaison between our neighbourhood and decision-making bodies. The City of Vancouver, the Provincial Government and many other organizations come to GWAC to assess neighbourhood opinion on various issues, and he believes he can represent our neighbourhood well in this capacity.

Richard Penneway is a recently retired Certified General Accountant born and raised in Grandview and has held a number of directorships with both private and public organizations in the Vancouver area. He is a graduate of UBC and is concerned with maintaining the liveability of Grandview Woodland. A GWAC Director since 2008, he works for improved public transit and for a reduction in vehicular traffic through the neighbourhood. He has been active in promoting the creation of an interesting and green pedestrian friendly corridor along Venables Street. Grandview Woodland is a vibrant and diverse area of Vancouver and it is time that this is fully recognized by the City.

Petronella Vander Valk has lived and worked in Grandview Woodland for the past 18 years, and greatly appreciates and values the sense of community shared within the neighbourhood. She would like to help preserve and build on this community feeling and believes that this is possible through creating a greener, more pedestrian and people oriented neighbourhood. Petronella has been a director on the GWAC board since 2005-2006, and is a founder member of the Neighbourhood Traffic Committee, a group involved in trying to reduce traffic on our residential streets. Currently in real estate sales, Petronella has a Bachelor of Arts degree in urban geography and urban sociology and a Bachelor of Architecture degree.