Matias de Dovitiis
Your Progressive Champion for TDSB Trustee in Etobicoke North and Humber River—Black Creek (TDSB Ward 1) is Matias de Dovitiis. Matias served on the TDSB for the past four years as a strong advocate for families and students, and stood up for local schools against Doug Ford’s cuts.
He has worked in the community for 20 years helping to rebuild greenspaces and parks, adding new playgrounds, supporting equitable opportunities for youth with bursary programs, lunch and breakfast programs, and more.
Matias is committed to stopping education cuts, working with parents to bring in more resources to our schools to create a more equitable school system, and fighting for high quality public education. We are working to identify Matias’ supporters and get them out to vote on election day.
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About Matias from his website: Matias has been a very active member of the Black Creek–Humber River Community for almost 20 years.
He started community organizing even before that while at university, where he helped to start and was President of the Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS) at the University of Toronto while a student there. This group is now located in many campuses across Ontario, over 25 years later.
As an organizer, he has managed over a dozen political campaigns and has held several positions, elected and otherwise at different levels of politics. Over his career, Matias has received awards and recognitions from the national to the local grass roots level, from the King’s Coronation Medal, to student awards, to the Metcalf Foundation Toronto Skills Academy Fellowship, to the first ever CONOSER Community Award for distinguished community contributions and more.
Matias was elected to the Toronto District School Board as a Trustee in 2022 to represent Humber River-Black Creek. He is the first Latin American to be elected to the TDSB in over 25 years, since 1997. As a Trustee, he served as Vice-Chair to the Finance Committee for two years, as well as in ICCAC, PIAC and was Vice-Chair to the hiring committee for a new Director and helped to start a Taskforce on Latin/a/o/x Student Achievement. Read more.
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