Kanwal Singh Neel

Dr. Kanwal Singh Neel is a career educator who has been a teacher with the Richmond School District, and a teacher educator in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. He is currently a Project Coordinator for Friends of Simon Tutoring Project at SFU, an outreach to immigrant and refugee children that provides university students as after school tutors for literacy and numeracy, currently reaching several hundred children and youth. He was the coordinator for the 75th anniversary of the Komagata Maru Incident as well as an advisor for the website project komagatamarujourney.ca with the SFU Library. He is one of the founders of the Punjab Cultural Association and has been an integral part in hosting community events such as the Vaisakhi Gala and Indo-Canadian Business.