Restraining Orders: When to Get One & Why

Guest Bio: Nneka MacGregor, Co-founder & Executive Director of WomenatthecentrE

Nneka MacGregor is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Women's Centre for Social Justice, better known as the WomenatthecentrE. WomenatthecentrE is a non profit organization created by women survivors of gendered violence, for women survivors. The organization works to bring the expertise of women survivors to influence violence against women policies and programs.

She sits on a number of Advisory Boards and Committees, including the Toronto Police Domestic Violence Advisory Committee. Nneka is a respected advocate who also develops and delivers training to various sectors and corporations. She has played a leading role in a number of initiatives, including restraining orders law reform, and in 2007, was one of 13 experts selected by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario to review the range of services provided to women and children in the province, identify gaps and making recommendations.

Nneka is on the Board of Trustees of the Girl Child Network Worldwide, a UK-based charity that focuses on empowerment of the girl child, through education and the eradication of practices that impede their full physical, emotional and spiritual growth and development. Nneka is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Moatfield Foundation of Bayview Glen School, an independent co-educational school in Toronto. She is often called upon to give key note addresses. In January 2013 she was part of a fundraising team that summited Mount Kilimanjaro and went again in January, 2014, with her son and other three other mother and sons teams, as part of the WomenatthecentrE Mothers And Sons Against Violence Against Women (MASAVAW) initiative to engage men and boys. She is a proud mother of three wonderful children.