For more than 30 years, Patty Jarvis has worked with schools and communities supporting and developing meaningful partnerships and programs that provide accessible, relevant arts engagement for young people.  Leadership positions include; Interim Associate Director, Education, and Outreach, Canadian Opera Company; Executive Director, Prologue to the Performing Arts; and Director of Education/Outreach - Canadian Stage. Patty was the co-author of The Performing Arts Education Overview Report (2011), a first-time analysis of arts education programming being delivered by arts organizations in the City of Toronto.

 Affiliations: Co-founder/Past Chair of  Professional Arts Organizations Network for Education; Board member Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement in Ontario; Advisory Committee member of the Canadian Network for Arts and Learning, Past Chair of the Toronto Theatre Alliance (now TAPA); Past Board member of Ontario Presents and Project Humanity.

 Currently:  Program Manager, Listen Up! Etobicoke; Faculty member Centennial College -  Arts Education/Community Engagement and Arts Management.