Keenan Wellar

Keenan Wellar (born 1968, in Evanston, Illinois) is the originator and co-founder of the LiveWorkPlay self-advocacy organization (established in 1995) for people with intellectual disabilities based in Ottawa, Canada. He is currently serving as the CEO and has public visibility as a media spokesperson.
Trained as an educator at the University of Ottawa and a graduate of the applied linguistics Master of Arts program at Carleton University he managed the national Special Needs Education project (part of the Government of Canada's SchoolNet program) from 1995-1997 as a Project Manager at Ingenia Communications Corporation and represented Canada at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Internet Society.
In 1997 Keenan Wellar and his wife Julie Kingstone left their existing careers to work full-time on growing the LiveWorkPlay organization, which they had established on a voluntary basis in 1995, at which time it operated as the Special Needs Network.
Wellar and Kingstone also helped found Heartwood House, an umbrella charity for 16 non-profit organizations in Ottawa. Mr. Wellar was elected chair of the board for Heartwood House in 2007.

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