June 2026 Membership Luncheon: Catalysts for Change: The Role of Business in Advancing Human Rights
ABOUT EVENT:
Catalysts for Change: The Role of Business in Advancing Human Rights
Speaker: Isha Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
For our final luncheon of the season, we’ll welcome Isha Khan, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), as she explores the growing global relevance of human rights in business. In a time of escalating challenges to fundamental freedoms, the business case for integrating human rights into corporate values and operations has never been clearer – or more urgent.
As the CMHR marks more than a decade since opening its doors in 2014, the Museum has become a beacon of thought leadership, education, and global collaboration. Isha Khan will speak to how the Museum is not only preserving and sharing stories but also actively driving conversations for change
PROGRAM
Friday, June 5, 2026 | 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Delta Hotels by Marriott Winnipeg, 350 St. Mary Ave.
11:30 a.m. Registration and Networking
12:00 p.m. Program begins
12:15 p.m. Lunch served
12:40 p.m. Keynote
1:30 p.m. Program ends
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Member Rate: $100 + tax
Non-Member Rate: $200 + tax
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Isha Khan (she/her) is a lawyer and community leader whose extensive career has been
dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights, dignity and equality in Canada and
beyond. Since being appointed CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in 2020, she has led change focused on engaging deeply with community to build a better understanding of human rights through storytelling, transformational experiences and by modeling a culture of respect for human rights.
Isha holds degrees from the University of Manitoba and the University of Victoria. She worked in private practice as a lawyer in Calgary before returning to Winnipeg to lead organizational development at United Way Winnipeg. At the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, she served first as legal counsel and then as Executive Director, advocating in the public’s interest on individual and systemic cases of discrimination and moving forward rights-based education initiatives. In 2019, she was appointed by the Government of Canada to review the conditions of people in solitary confinement in federal penitentiaries.
In addition to her professional accomplishments, she is a dedicated community volunteer who currently sits on the boards of the Main Street Project and Balmoral Hall School, the President’s Advisory Committee at the University of Manitoba and the executive committee of the International Network of Museums for Peace.
Throughout her life, Khan has helped build communities where everyone is respected and
valued. She continues that work at the Museum, helping to advance the public’s understanding of human rights through storytelling, and engaging new ways of working in museums, arts and culture and beyond.