Lorraine Zander is a Canadian business woman, entrepreneur, mental health and wellness advocate and highly regarded expert in youth culture and marketing.

In 2000, armed with an HBSc. degree in Exceptionality in Human Learning from the University of Toronto, Lorraine founded Faze Magazine with a mission to support and empower young women. Hailed by the press as the Maclean’s or Time magazine for students, within a year its circulation hit 500,000 copies, making it the third-largest print run in the country, behind Reader’s Digest and Chatelaine.

While busy in her managing role as Faze’s Founder and Editor-in-Chief, as an expert in youth and marketing, Lorraine is a regular guest and commentator on major TV networks, radio shows and often featured and quoted in newspapers and magazines.

In 2021 Lorraine spearheaded a first of its kind partnership between Faze and the United Nations agency UNESCO-Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) and Faze was named the Official Global Media and Communications Partner for the UNESCO-MGIEP Global Kindness Matters Campaign.

She is regularly engaged to speak at panels and conferences, either directly to youth audiences, or to adults or marketers, trying to understand them. She has also appeared in youth-focused reality shows as a mentor and guest judge.

Lorraine has fully embraced her role as a mentor to young women, having personally coached over two hundred interns and team members and regularly produces and hosts empowering live events for young women. A supporter of many youth charities she was a board member of Canadian charity Live Different for over 12 years. Lorraine was honoured at a gala by Flare Magazine where she was presented with a Volunteer Award and received a full page profile in the magazine celebrating her work with Live Different.