Jeannie Kanakos is a former Municipal Councillor from Delta, British Columbia, and is a candidate for Delta Municipal Council in the 2011 municipal election.[1] Kanakos was also the BC Liberal candidate in the riding of Delta North in the 2005 and 2009 provincial elections.[2]
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Jeannie Kanakos was born in Vancouver, grew up in North Vancouver and moved to Delta in 1980. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Canadian History from Simon Fraser University and a Certificate in Conflict Resolution from the Justice Institute of British Columbia. She is married to Nick Kanakos, a retired teacher who taught in the community, with whom she has four grown children and one grandchild.[3]
Kanakos has worked in the private sector and in government as Community Development Specialist, Negotiator and as a Facilitator. This included working at the Federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs as a policy advisor and negotiator. She has also instructed both mediation and negotiation courses at the Justice Institute of British Columbia’s Centre for Conflict Resolution. She currently works at her own consulting firm, Kanakos & Associates.
Kanakos served as Delta Municipal Councilor from 2005 to 2008, during which time she chaired Delta’s Traffic and Safety Committee and Delta’s Cycling Committee. She also served as vice-chair of Delta’s Community Planning Advisory Comittee and was Delta’s representative on the Fraser Valley Regional Library board.
Kanakos was the BC Liberal candidate for Delta North in the 2005 and 2009 provincial elections, placing second in both elections, placing second both times to NDP MLA Guy Gentner.[4]
Kanakos has served as a director of the Burns Bog Conservation Society and Delta Hospice Society as well as commissioner of the Delta Heritage Advisory Comission and a member of the Delta Watershed Park Trail Management Task Force. She also volunteers for the Immaculate Conception Catholic Parish in Delta and the BC Heart and Stroke Foundation as well as several other organisations.[5]