Concordia bids farewell to community leader Lance Evoy

(Left to right) Elizabeth Hunt, Lance Evoy and ICD Administrator and Program Coordinator Mireille Landry.

On May 6, friends and colleagues gathered at the Samuel Bronfman Building to celebrate the retirement of Institute of Community Development (ICD) Director Lance Evoy. Following two decades as a community organizer and activist, Evoy came to Concordia in 1993 to found the Institute, where he helped develope such initiatives as the Summer Program in Community Development and the University of the Streets Café.

University of the Streets Café Coordinator Elizabeth Hunt (currently on maternity leave), who has worked with Evoy for 12 years, said "Lance engages in all of this work without pretense, without ego, and with incredible generosity. He doesn't really talk about it, he certainly doesn't flaunt it; he just does the work."

Evoy was presented with a hand-bound book, filled with thoughts and well wishes from friends and colleagues. He begins his retirement on May 31.