Meet the staff
Hannah Bell holds an MBA in Innovative Management from UPEI and has 30 years of varied experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors in Canada and the UK. Prior to being elected, she served as Executive Director of the PEI Business Women’s Association for 5 years. Hannah Bell is the owner of consultancy firm ‘The Solution Agency’, helping businesses build capacity and influence change through the power of storytelling, practical training and skills development, strategic planning and partnerships, and sustainable project design.
Hannah Bell is a community leader locally and nationally – as Board President and Chair at The Guild for 5 years, representing the province as governor with National Trust Canada, and as champion for Startup Charlottetown, part of the Startup Canada entrepreneurs network. She served as an MLA from 2017-2023.
She lives in Parkdale with her daughter, Ava, and her mother, Judith.
A lifelong Maritimer, Kari Kruse is the Project Manager at the PEI Coalition for Women in Government.
In this role, she plans, designs and delivers a variety of skill building and networking projects for women and gender diverse people seeking or currently in leadership positions in PEI. She is also the lead for the Coalition’s communications and social media content creation.
Kari is a recent UPEI grad (2022) where she earned her Bachelor of Arts, majoring in the interdisciplinary Diversity and Social Justice Studies program. Through this degree, she acquired knowledge and social awareness about differences between groups of people and respect for that diversity, the capacity to ask critical questions about how the world is organized and to posit other possibilities, and broad communication skills including the ability to see, understand, and translate multiple points of view for different audiences. This education provided her with a strong foundation that continues to inform her work and daily life.
Kari believes in assuming appropriate good faith in dialogue with others and works to build intentional and reciprocal bridges across the political spectrum.