Board of Directors
President
Corey Ranger
Based in unceded Quw’utsun Territory, Corey Ranger (he/him) is an uninvited settler on these lands. Corey is a registered nurse with extensive experience in street outreach, community, and public health nursing with additional training in project management and quality improvement. Corey has focused primarily on harm reduction since 2013 beginning in Alberta and now in British Columbia. At present, Corey is the Clinical Director at AVI Health & Community Services, a board of director at Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC), and the North American Representative for the Members’ Advisory Council with the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC).
Vice-President
Sarah Lovegrove
Sarah Lovegrove is a Professor in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program at Vancouver Island University. She is a passionate advocate for harm reduction and people who use drugs in her community of Nanaimo, located on traditional unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation. While her background is in Emergency Nursing, she temporarily left her nursing practice and the profession entirely from 2018-2022 to heal from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder incurred from her experiences at the bedside. Throughout that time, she volunteered alongside and in support of local drug user advocacy groups operating safe consumption and outreach services, served as the Chair of the Nanaimo Community Action Team (CAT), and has been a committed voice of advocacy at the local, provincial, and federal levels. She is an anti-racist/anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, intersectional feminist in life, practice, and teaching with an embodied understanding of how systems of oppression impact our capacity to offer and experience care. She understands harm reduction to be far more than a set of principles and practices, but rather as a way of being, a lens through which we see and move through the world, and as a radical act of love to keep people safe in a very unsafe world.
Treasurer
Amber Bumbacco
Amber Bumbacco (she/her) is a settler of Italian and European ancestry and grew up on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people in Sault Ste. Marie, specifically the lands of the Garden River and Batchewana First Nations, as well as the Métis Nation of Ontario. She currently resides on the traditional and unceded territories of the Snuneymuxw, Snaw-Naw-As, and Stz’uminus peoples (Nanaimo, BC). Amber is a Licensed Practical Nurse and Team Lead with a primary background in harm reduction, community nursing, overdose response, and trauma-informed practice. She is deeply involved in supporting individuals experiencing structural vulnerability, substance use, and chronic health challenges through accessible, low-barrier care. Amber is also pursuing her LPN-to-RN bridging education, with a commitment to advancing health equity and strengthening dignified care pathways within both urban and Indigenous communities.
Secretary
Meaghan Brown
Meaghan Brown (she/her) is a settler of Scottish, Irish, and Dutch ancestry and grew up on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples (Niagara, ON). She currently resides on traditional and unceded lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territory (Victoria, BC). Meaghan is a Registered Nurse, nurse educator, and clinical leader with a primary background in community nursing roles related to mental health and substance use, harm reduction, homelessness, sexual health, and gender affirming care. In 2024, she completed her Doctorate in Nursing under the supervision of Dr. Bernie Pauly with the Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study (CMAPS). She has been involved in local, provincial, and national projects on alcohol harm reduction in urban, rural, and Indigenous communities.
Regional Representative
(Prairie)
Rachael Edwards
Rachael is a registered nurse with a passion for public health, harm reduction, and health equity across the lifespan. Rachael has spent the last 15 years working in community health, infectious disease, clinical education and shelter/street outreach programs practicing harm reduction, health promotion and humanitarian philosophies of care. Rachael completed a Master of Public Health and Social Policy from the University of Victoria in 2023. Rachael joins the HRNA board as the Prairie Representative.
Central Representative
Jamie Boyd
Jamie works as a registered nurse on the unceded traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe peoples. Jamie has worked in community health and harm reduction for the past 6 years in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario working in low barrier walk-in clinics, street outreach, and in shelter and supportive housing environments. Jamie finished her Bachelor of Nursing with a final focus in mental health and addictions and holds a Graduate Certificate in Sexual Health. She currently works for Ottawa Inner City Health providing health care access and coordination for individuals residing in Ottawa’s lowest-barrier shelter. Her practice is grounded in relationship-building and the belief that wellness is fostered through community and connection.
Student Representative
Leah Kleisinger
Leah Kleisinger is a third-year nursing student at Saskatchewan Polytechnic in Regina, Saskatchewan. She found her passion for harm reduction early on at the age of 16 when she started working at a pharmacy in Regina that specialized in addiction and mental health, Queen City Wellness Pharmacy. After years working there she decided in a career as a registered nurse and continues to work within the community whenever she gets a spare minute!
