Denise Andrea Campbell (born 1975) is the Jamaican-Canadian Executive Director of Social Development at the City of Toronto who was also the youngest president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
Early life
Campbell was born in Jamaica in 1975 and moved to Canada in 1980.
Career
She became the youngest president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in 2001, but resigned soon after given fundamental difference with the Executive about how to solve NAC’s financial challenges as the organization faced financial crisis.
Campbell is Executive Director of Social Development at the Municipal government of Toronto where she runs an $11 million program to improve responses to mental health emergencies. The Toronto Community Crisis Service was launched in Spring 2022. In 2016, working with Mayor John Tory, she led the development of the City’s Toronto Action Plan to Confront Anti-Black Racism. In 2021, she spoke of how much work was needed to tackle racism and encouraged Toronto City staff to collaborate with organizations that were already addressing problem before starting new initiatives.
Family life
Campbell is married and has twin boys.