Current Board Members

Members can contact the Board Co-Chairs at info@kmclt.ca.

Board Members are elected once a year by KMCLT members at our Annual General Meeting, and serve a term of two years.

Su Alexanian
First elected 2017, Community Member
Su Alexanian is the current chair of KMAC (Kensington Market Action Committee), and also volunteers with Friends of Kensington Market. Su works for good development that continues to anchor the neighbourhood in its roots–being inclusive–for artists, newcomers and visitors. Su works in the arts, making music, soundtracks, and films. Su raised her family in Kensington and continues to make Kensington her home.

Alix Aylen, Co-Chair
First elected 2023, Community Member
Alix Aylen has been a tenant in Kensington Market for 8 years (in 3 different houses). She has worked within Toronto's nonprofit sector for 15 years, focusing on community program development and management. Alix is currently working as Program Lead for the University of Toronto's Social Purpose Real Estate Accelerator program, through the Infrastructure Institute, and has a Masters in Community & Social Planning from York University. She's hopeful that the KMCLT's work will achieve more long-term housing stability and affordability for the tenants that make the market what it is.

Patricia Au
First elected 2024, Community Member
Patricia has been a resident of Kensington Market since 2009. She has deepened her roots in this community by making it the place she and her husband raise their young family. Patricia is an active participant in the local elementary school community as well as supporting causes important to the unique fabric of our neighbourhood. Maintaining affordability and proper living conditions is a priority for her in order to preserve the diversity of the community and allow everyone to imagine themselves here for the long term. In her professional life, she has spent almost 20 years working as an engineer in supply chain logistics with a personal focus with growing and supporting women in the industry.

Kevin Barrett, Co-Chair
First elected 2017, Community Member
Kevin Barrett is a guitarist, producer, musical director and composer based in Toronto, Canada. He has lived and worked in the Kensington Market area for most of the past 30 years. Kevin performs as a band leader, side musician and musical director at jazz festivals, clubs and concert venues across the country and internationally while maintaining a continuous presence on the Toronto scene. Outside of music, Kevin has also been a long-time organizer in community housing and civic issues.

Eric Jensen
First elected 2021, Resident MemberLongtime resident Eric Jensen has been a bartender, builder, and frequent background contributor to many neighbourhood endeavours. He presently helps deliver services to the marginalized and under-housed of our community at St Stephen’s Community House.

Pouria Lotfi
First elected 2023, Community MemberPouria Lotfi runs Pamenar, a much-beloved cafe, bar, local hangout and gallery in the Market. He made the Market home in 2009 after three decades of wandering the globe. He’s been active as a board member in the Kensington Market BIA and has worked with other local organisations since moving to the neighbourhood. With his experience as a business owner, he hopes to help the KMCLT expand its activities in the commercial realm as businesses face even greater pressure from speculating realtors and surging rents.

Michael Petrasek, Treasurer
First elected 2017, Community Member Michael Petrasek has lived and worked in Kensington Market for 25 years. Born in Toronto, he graduated with distinction from Concordia University in Montreal with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, (Specialization in Theatre Performance). After a couple of years performing, he took a position with the Playwrights Guild of Canada, where his responsibilities eventually included national and international promotion of Canadian plays and playwrights; negotiating and monitoring the collective agreement between the Playwrights Guild of Canada and the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres; representing the Guild on the board of the Canadian Copyright Institute, as well as other creator copyright coalitions; and co-supervising a script publishing and distribution service. In 2004, Michael founded Kensington Literary Representation, an agency focused on representing playwrights. He serves as treasurer on the board of the Kensington Market Community Land Trust.

Eugene Slonimerov, Secretary
First elected 2024, Community Member Eugene Slonimerov is a Belarusian-Canadian urban and conflict studies educator and researcher with a background in music and the arts. Eugene cares about neglected public spaces, community-building, mapping memories and solving the housing crisis. He conducts field research, interviews and recently added map making, leading memory mapping workshops and walks around Kensington Market and North York.

He has lived between Old Town, Tbilisi and Kensington Market, Toronto over the last two decades. In Tbilisi, he has lectured Urban Studies at Caucasus University and Conflict Studies at Tbilisi State University. He has previously worked as an assistant to late Canadian artist Michael Snow and had produced music and theatre even earlier.

Sebastian Tansil
First appointed 2025, Community Member
Sebastian Tansil has been a tenant in Kensington Market since 2019 and regularly attends the church of Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields in the neighbourhood. Sebastian has several years of experience in economics and the public service though he has learned over his career that genuine policy change begins on the ground through community organizing. Sebastian is currently community engagement lead for the Green Line, a hyperlocal Toronto news outlet, and has a Masters in Economics from University of Toronto. He's hopeful that the KMCLT's work will not only help preserve affordability in the Market but also encourage a culture change where neighbours stand in deeper solidarity with the most marginalized and for one another.

Click here for the Board Elections Nomination Form.
Click here for a description of a Board Member’s duties.