Cheryll Case, is the Founder and Executive Director of CP Planning, a Toronto-based non-profit organization defining the practice of a human rights-based approach to urban planning. This includes the co-design and implementation of neighbourhood, city and nation-wide planning strategies that have aligned for public, non-profit and private sector organizations to invest millions of dollars into community-led solutions that uphold the economic, social and cultural rights of marginalized people to have access to good housing, good jobs and an adequate standard of living.
Cheryll has contributed in various committees and facilitated public discourse to advance professional planning practices. This includes serving as co-chair of the BSH Knowledge Mobilization Committee at the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative, on the advisory committee of the national network steering the development of a Black-led and Black-focused development technical resource centre and previous roles as a member of the Urban Land Institute's Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee and as a member of the City of Toronto’s External Advisory Committee for the production of their 2020-30 Affordable Housing Plan. She co-authored and co-edited "House Divided" and taught housing innovation at the Rotman School of Business and Waterloo University’s School of Architecture.
Her impact is recognized in her honour as the University of Toronto’s inaugural Early Career Canadian Urban Leader in 2022, in addition to recognitions from the Azure Magazine, Spacing Magazine and the Jamaican Canadian Association.
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