Our Team

Board of Directors

Fergus McCann – Co-Chair

Currently Manager-Media & Community Relations for BC Housing. Prior to joining BC Housing, Fergus worked for 5 years at CTV BC and nearly 20 years at CKVU (Channel 13 – now Citytv) on programs as diverse as The Vancouver Show, the Laurier La Pierre talk show and in the newsroom on the assignment desk. His early years in broadcasting included working in radio in Salmon Arm and Kelowna. Born and raised in South Vancouver, Fergus and family have been living in Burnaby since 1984. His community service has included time on boards such as the BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils, the Family Support Institute and most recently, the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion. He was recognized as a City of Burnaby Local Hero in 2005.

Sarah Mah – Secretary

Sarah Mah has a bachelors degree in genetics, and interested in promoting women’s rights and equality. She was introduced to Beauty Night when she accompanied her mother to some of the events. Sarah became very interested in the Beauty Night cause and saw how the program contributes to the physical and emotional health for women experiencing severe poverty in the DTES. It was not until after she had completed an accelerated high school education and most of an undergraduate degree that she was able to devote time to the program. Sarah started on the BNS board one year ago and looks forward to continuing to serve on the board as secretary, in addition to her role as an amateur manicurist at the events!

David Chen – Treasurer

David Chen, BSc., BA, CSA (Certified Senior Advisor) is Complete Financial’s owner and primary financial advisor.

David is a technical scuba diver, motorcyclist and family man with a very mixed background of education, real world experience and financial services training. Born and raised in Vancouver, David has built strong relationships with friends, colleagues and clients. Everybody knows if they have a problem and need a solution, they should contact him, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with money. “I am always available to help or find help” is David’s favourite saying.

David specializes in investment, insurance, and leveraging strategies for personal and corporate cases focusing on preventing financial shrinkage and encouraging growth. Through stop-loss plans and low tax investments, he has helped many families meet their financial challenges, particularly those with disabled children. He has been in the financial field since January 2004.

Stacey Dallyn – Board Member

Stacey Dallyn started volunteering for Beauty Night Society in August 2009. Her production skills and contacts developed through over 20 years experience in fashion, media and film made her a dynamic part of the All I Want for Xmas Production Team, Beauty Night’s Annual Xmas Stocking Drive and Knit Fit. Solution-focused, Stacey comes up with fresh angles to show case media friendly end product. Her experience as Fashion Editor of Vancouver Magazine and Western Living Magazine shows her keen eye, ability to stick to a budget, team build and come up with innovative ways of coming up with workable solutions. Through her experience on the PTA for her sons’ school, Stacey has been heavily involved with school-based grass roots fund-raising on a local and international level.

Kevin Day – Board Member

Kevin Day is a social entrepreneur with experience running both private and public companies. In 1998, Kevin founded Riskebiz Internet Services Inc., a company that helps entrepreneurs in the developing world establish and grow local businesses by connecting them with micro-finance services through the mobile web.

In 2002 Kevin helped establish Feed Me Sports Inc., a company which published sports related content for mobile phones. Under Kevin’s leadership, Feed Me Sports acquired Mobilized Entertainment in 2008, a public company that trades on the over the counter market in the United States. Mr. Day has experience raising money for start-ups and he is also an experienced computer programmer developing many of his company’s mobile applications.

Kevin was a Director of the British Columbia Captive Insurance Association for 10 years and is currently a Committee Member of the Canadian Captive Insurance Association. Kevin obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia in 1994. After university and prior to starting his first business, Kevin worked for several years in the insurance industry as a property and casualty insurance broker. Kevin is an avid runner and enjoys movies, documentaries, and reading biographies of business icons.

Kristy Delorme – Board Member

Kristi Delorme has worked as a Social Worker supporting Aboriginal children and families since 2008. She began her career working within the Aboriginal community after volunteering at the Urban Native Youth Association homework clubs in Vancouver in 2003. After being successful in her application to become the Program Coordinator with the First Nations School Success Program, Kristi moved into a Program Coordinator position for the Aboriginal Mentorship Program that connects First Nations youth with positive role models and mentors. Kristi was reminded each day of the negative affect colonization, residential schools and high child removal rates by the government had on the ongoing cycle of addiction, abuse and violence in the Aboriginal community. This experience motivated Kristi to return to university in 2006, where she obtained her second degree, a Bachelor Degree in Social Work, specializing in Aboriginal child welfare.

In 2008, Kristi began work with the Ministry of Children and Family Development in Burnaby, where she connects children and families to culturally appropriate support services.

Dave Dickson – Board Member

Dave was born and raised in Vancouver area, joined the Vancouver Police Department in May,1980 and became an Advocate for street workers and youth. He spent his entire VPD career working in the Downtown Eastside. Over the years Dave received a number of awards:

2003-Recognition Award from Native Health Society
2004-Police Officer of the Year
2004-Federal Justice Dept. Award for working with Youth
2004-International Safety Award for working to keep High Risk Women safe
2005-City of Vancouver “Youth Ally Award”
2005-Solicitor General’s Community Policing Award
2006-B.C. Civil Liberties Award
2006-Queen’s Jubilee Medal for Community Policing
2006-Premier’s B.C. Community Achievement Award

Dave left the Vancouver Police Department in August 2008 and is currently working with another organization as an outreach worker in the Downtown Eastside so that he can continue his work with the street workers and youth.

Pamela Lelong – Co-Chair

Pamela has over 22 years experience serving on non-profit boards. She is one of the founding members of Beauty Night Society and in this capacity, Pamela served as the Secretary/Treasurer and wrote the original constating documents for Beauty Night. She has also volunteered on many occasions for the Society. She is a past board member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors where she served as Vice-president of the Vancouver region, briefly as Co-chair of the Ethics Committee, and as Chair of the Legislative Review Committee. Pamela added the values and duties of clinical counselling to their constitution and re-wrote the BCACC bylaws during her role as Chair of the Legislative Review Committee. She also served as the Secretary/Treasurer on the board of the Greater Vancouver Employment Strategy Society.

Pamela is a member (inactive status) of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and a past member of the Canadian Counselling and Guidance Association. Pamela’s work experience includes delivering companion services; coordinating non-profit employment programs, delivering one-to-one/group counselling, information and life skills training sessions; writing instructional media, funding proposals, reports and programs; drafting leases and word processing lands claims settlements; acting as clerk of the court; and delivering secretarial and cosmetology services. Pamela has also supervised college and university student practicums and appeared on television, radio and in other media to represent the needs of the unemployed.

Pamela currently works in the position of companion for a large health care organization which is one of the 50 best managed in Canada.

Bill Nevison – Board Member

Writer/producer for Citytv Creative Services, promotion & commercial production. Previously worked as a writer/producer at Global TV. Bill won various broadcast awards, including gold medals from Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) Promax/BDA, and International CrimeStoppers. He has been on the Beauty Night board of directors for 3 years. His role on the Beauty Night Media Committee includes writing and editing Beauty Night press releases, media packages, and media guidelines. Has been involved with the annual Beauty Night stocking drive, and has also documented the event.

Darren Reiter – Board Member

Darren Reiter is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the Board of eMedia Networks International Corporation, a sonic branding company listed publicly on the Canadian Venture Exchange (TSX.EMM) Darren has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia (1992), a Masters in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh (1995) and a Certificate in Journalism from Langara College (1997) In partnership with award winning producers and directors including Braemar Court Productions and Bowen Arrow Productions, Darren has produced several short movies including “The River of Jordan” which screened at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2007 and “Amazon Falls,” a feature length drama currently in post production. Darren resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Program Coordinators

Behind each Beauty Night Society (BNS) Program, there is a fantastic program coordinator. Without these ladies, our programs would not benefit our communities through their vast diversity. Each program offers a piece of the body/mind/spirit puzzle that many of us struggle with. Each program coordinator is a leader in her own right, and inspires our participants and volunteers.

Caroline MacGillivray, Founder and Executive Director

Caroline MacGillivray is the National Executive Director and founder of Beauty Night Society. MacGillivray, a Gastown Actor’s Studio Graduate, believes that healthy self-esteem can be fostered through entertaining and interactive educational programming. Now in its tenth year, Beauty Night has given over 11,000 life-makeovers to women who live in poverty. By guiding and inspiring others to embrace the concept that education can be enjoyable, Caroline has affected the lives of thousands. Her efforts have not gone unnoticed: she is honoured to be a Flare Volunteer Award recipient, Spirit of the Crane Gold Community Award recipient, and a five-time YWCA Woman of Distinction Nominee. Caroline is also known as the host and producer of Sexy in Vancity Radio on 101.9FM CITR (Wednesday Nights at 10pm).

Tiffany Telford

Makeover Program Facilitator (Vancouver)

This Blanche MacDonald Make up Program graduate started volunteering for Beauty Night’s makeover program in February 2008. She had just moved to Vancouver and was looking for a volunteer opportunity and “loved it”. Tiffany loved it so much in December 2008, she brought Beauty Night to her home town. She facilitated a Christmas make over night in Prince George. When she came back to Vancouver, Tiffany became Beauty Night’s Outreach facilitator. Since May 2009, Tiffany facilitates our makeover program events on a weekly basis. Her fresh innovative ideas help strengthen participant relations, volunteer coordination and creating posters for our events. When she is not at Beauty Night, this makeup artist works on film and television projects shooting in Vancouver.

Julia Pon

Volunteer Coordinator

Julia is in the MD/PhD program at UBC, doing her PhD in cancer genomics and studying to be doctor. She did her undergraduate degree in molecular genetics at the University of Alberta and moved to Vancouver in August 2010. She’s been volunteering with Beauty Night doing foot care since September 2010, and is excited to help more people get involved in Beauty Night through volunteer coordination and research on the effects of positive touch. Julia has really enjoyed meeting such a diversity of amazing women at Beauty Nights and looks forward to helping the spread the magic of Beauty Night!

Tyla Flexman

Womyn’s Gym Program Coordinator (on leave)

Tyla Flexman is a recent kinesiology graduate of the University of British Columbia. She is very interested in the health and fitness field and is a personal trainer as well as a community field hockey coach. Tyla has six years of coaching experience including coaching high school sports, development camps and provincial high performance teams. Her hardworking attitude and determination is what makes her a positive role model for young athletes in the community. She is a strong advocator of women in sport and strives to encourage female participation in exercise. She began volunteering for the Beauty Night Society in 2008 and is now the program coordinator for the Womyns Gym Program. She currently plays on the Canadian Women’s National Field Hockey team and was the 2008 recipient of the Gail Wilson Award, given to a female varsity athlete displaying leadership on the field and in the community. Tyla is excited to be a part of The Beauty Night Society and hopes to run the Sun Run this year with Womyns Gym clients!

Laura Mah

Knit Fit Program Coordinator & Founder (seasonal)

Laura Mah is currently in her first year of post secondary education at University of Victoria. In 2004, Laura was strongly inspired by her cousin and the Founder of Beauty Night Society, Caroline MacGillivray, and created a knitting club at her elementary school. Now known as Knit Fit, this small group has transformed into a diverse program made up of individuals from all around Vancouver. The goal of Knit Fit is to knit scarves for the homeless and less fortunate people of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side and at the same time, to teach people the importance of giving back to our community through a fun new skill and hobby. This year, Knit Fit has expanded to elementary and high school. Six schools in Vancouver have been involved in Knit Fit so far. Every year, Knit Fit hands out scarves at Beauty Night Society’s annual Christmas Stocking Drive event, and we are in highly anticipating this year’s event! Laura cannot wait to see what Knit Fit has in store for the future. Laura is also largely involved at Vancouver Technical Secondary, and has served on the Student Council for the last 5 years; this year, serving at the council’s President.