Lausanne Canada Board of Directors

Lorajoy Tira-Dimangondayao
Board Director

Lorajoy arrived in Canada as a toddler, making her a 1.75 generation Canadian. With her international-graduate-student parents, she remembers how the academic community assisted her family in finding food and fellowship around the table in the early 1980s.

With migrant people close to her heart, Lorajoy has served with the leadership of the Lausanne Movement’s diasporas issue group (2007-2019) and with the Global Diaspora Network (2010-2015). Currently, she serves as a press editor for the Jaffray Centre for Global Initiatives at Ambrose University and is on the World Evangelical Alliance’s Global Migration Task Force. 

Lorajoy is most interested in religion vis-à-vis migration, particularly in how the shared meal serves as a counter-cultural platform for nurturing spiritual friendships in the Canadian context. She is exploring this as a theology student at St. Stephen’s College at the University of Alberta and witnesses this in the community as an active volunteer with a local food security initiative. These engagements give Lorajoy the privilege of hearing stories from people from all over the country and from around the world, recounting how people work together to make a home. 

Fluent in Franglaistaglishspagalog, Lorajoy is married to a first generation Canadian, and is mother to second generation Canadian Gen-Zers. Her family calls Alberta home and is proud to cheer on the Edmonton Oilers season after season.