Jeromy Farkas

Chief Executive Officer

Jeromy “Pathfinder” Farkas is a Calgarian mentor, athlete, and community mobilizer with over $10M in successful fundraising in the social, post-secondary and political sectors.

From 2017 to 2021, Jeromy served as Calgary’s youngest City Councillor and the first openly LGBTQ person to hold municipal elected office in the city. Following a term on Council, he ran for mayor of Calgary and received the most donations, ever, of any candidate for municipal office. He lost — but used that experience the following year as a springboard for a successful 4,300-kilometer solo run from Mexico to Canada.

While on the Pacific Crest Trail, fellow hikers nicknamed him “Pathfinder,” for his leadership following a harrowing journey through the High Sierra’s five legendary passes. All told, Jeromy raised more than a quarter-million dollars of new operating funds for Big Brothers and Big Sisters as part of their most successful fundraising campaign to date. In January 2023, he embarked on a follow-up fundraiser, climbing 25 consecutive peaks over 25 consecutive days in the dead of winter, raising nearly a hundred thousand dollars for medical care for Calgary’s homeless through The Alex Community Health Centre.

He is a certified Wilderness First Responder, Alberta Search and Rescue Association volunteer, and has visited or overnighted in more than 50 national, state, and provincial parks. You can catch him every other Friday on CBC Calgary’s Eyeopener radio show alongside his friend and former Calgary City Council colleague, Naheed Nenshi.

Jeromy currently serves as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation, with a mission to protect and promote one of Alberta’s newest provincial parks through engagement, education, collaboration, and conservation.

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