Rena Vanstone joined CYRRC in 2020 as a Project and Knowledge Mobilization Assistant and took over as Project Manager in 2023. She has a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Sociology from Dalhousie University and is set to complete her Masters in Communication and Culture from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2024. Rena supported the process of knowledge mobilization within CYRRC to make the research findings of the projects CYRRC funds accessible and useful to the people they are about, mainly newcomers to Canada and Settlement Service Providers, but also policy-makers, teachers, parents, governments, etc. She believes it is important that newcomers and the people supporting them have a voice in the research done about them and that the findings from that research is shared with them in meaningful ways.