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Meet the Freedoms Advocate Team

Our Leadership

Randy Crosson

Executive Director

With more than 38 years of executive leadership, Randy Crosson has built a career guiding both for-profit and non-profit organizations through growth, innovation, and change.

He currently serves as Executive Director of Freedoms Advocate, a charity that funds Constitutional and Human Rights cases, where he leads case review, national fundraising initiatives, donor partnerships, strategic planning, and volunteer engagement across Canada.

Previously, he spent over a decade as Director of Operation Christmas Child at Samaritan’s Purse Canada, overseeing large-scale domestic and international operations, volunteer systems, marketing, and strategic integration with the organization’s U.S. headquarters. His earlier roles include senior leadership positions in corporate operations, business development, and consulting, spanning industries such as construction, wellness technology, energy, and manufacturing.

Throughout his career, he has been recognized for his strengths in team building, financial management, technology integration, and organizational strategy. Beyond the boardroom, he has invested deeply in community service, contributing to initiatives addressing poverty, youth at risk, and senior care, while also helping lead significant fundraising projects.

Married to his wife Sylvia, Randy values family, community, and creativity. His personal interests include rebuilding classic cars, sculpture, archery, outdoor pursuits, and global travel.

M. Cathcart

Director of Communications

M. Cathcart has more than three decades of experience in journalism and strategic communications. Her background includes media relations, communications planning, content strategy, and executive advisory support in high-visibility and complex environments.

She brings a steady, thoughtful approach to communications and public relations that prioritizes clarity, credibility, and ensuring communications align with strategic objectives.

J. Cummins

Administrative Coordinator

J. Cummins has been with Freedoms Advocate since its founding, providing long-standing administrative and legal support to the organization’s work. As Administrative Coordinator, she supports the day-to-day operations of the charity, ensuring effective operations, documentation, and organizational continuity.

She also plays a significant role in fundraising efforts, supporting donor engagement, coordination, and the administrative systems that sustain the organization’s advocacy work. Her experience and institutional knowledge are a key role in the steady functioning and ongoing work of Freedoms Advocate.

Carol Crosson - (1963-2023)

Founder of Freedoms Advocate and Crosson Constitutional Law

Debate is what started Carol thinking that law was where she wanted/needed to go.

While homeschooling their 3 beautiful daughters, Carol made music and debate competitions required learning. Carol received an award for her efforts and long list of achievements from the debate association in Saskatchewan.

Carol completed nearly 50 constitutional and human rights cases and won 93% of them.

During the 11 years prior to her passing, Carol was constantly taking on new cases and fighting for people who were having their rights and freedoms trampled on.

The fear and anxiety these people experienced were a constant struggle for Carol as she grew to deeply care for each and every one of them.

She threw herself into each case and dug deep into the law to form her arguments and find favourable precedents.

As time went by, she began to use her own cases as precedents.

Carol entered law school in her 40s and was struggling with Lyme disease at the time.

As she was completing her degree, she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. She was told she would likely not survive as the type of cancer she had grew very rapidly. What was walnut size when they found it, grew to the size of a cantaloupe in only 6 weeks. Like everything else in her life Carol would not give up without a fight. She found a clinic with a 37% survival rate and there began an 11-year battle with cancer.

All through those years Carol was growing and expanding her law practice and gaining a deep understanding of constitutional law and how the courts handled them. There were times she would be getting fractionated chemotherapy in the morning at the clinic in the US and that afternoon be on a link back to a court in Canada fighting for her clients.

Her clients all knew she cared for them. What they didn’t see was the sleepless nights where she would be weeping for them. She saw how fear was driven into the soul of her clients by government officials going after them and taking their constitutional rights from them on a whim or from hatred.

Carol was an exceptional lawyer. One friend said she did more in 10 years than most lawyers do in 30. She poured herself into her work and gave herself to her clients. She became their biggest encourager, lifting them up and showing them just how strong they were and how much of a difference they were making in our land. Some said they always felt better after talking to Carol, prouder, stronger, and eager to face the fight.

And their courage to face their own fears and stand for what was right and true encouraged Carol and made her even more up for the fight. Carol had a 93% success rate for her Charter and Human Rights cases showing just how strong her commitment was to her clients and their Charter Rights and Freedoms.

All she did for her clients she did for everyone she knew. She never let anyone think they were not up for the task. She always saw each person as so much more than they could ever imagine.

And all this she did while dealing with the daily pain caused by the cancer treatments and infections. She attended court hearings on the verge of fainting. She arranged media interviews so that she would only be dealing with minimal pain.

At Carol’s Alberta Bar Call Ceremony, this passage from Isaiah 59 was read:

14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) stands far off; for truth has fallen in the street (the city’s forum), and uprightness cannot enter [the courts of justice].

15 Yes, truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice. And He saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor [no one to intervene on behalf of truth and right];

At the heart of Carol Crosson was a strong belief in fighting for those who are being oppressed. Good people, or as she put it ‘People of Principle’, who had the courage to stand for truth and what is right. She would tell her clients that they were heroes.

Carol has always been, is now, and forever will be my Hero!

Randy Crosson
Executive Director
Freedoms Advocate

Board Members

Perry Holden

Perry has had a long and successful business career with senior management roles in both national and international enterprises.

Perry and his wife co-own Core 4 Asphalt Maintenance.   Working with property managers, hotel chains, big box stores and similar businesses, they provide crack filling, pot-hole repair and cement pad maintenance.   Both of their children are working with Perry and his wife to build this company.

Perry is the Canadian Business Agent for Diamon-Fusion International managing all product lines in Canada for the past 10 years. He manages a dynamic group of sales reps and distributors and supports their marketing and sales efforts in each market.

Perry was the Vice President of Operations for The Imaging Systems Group in Calgary, Canada from 2000 to 2013. He managed both the manufacturing and distribution division as well as oversaw staff in Calgary and Houston, USA.

Perry and his family have spent the majority of their time in Calgary with a season in Vancouver. Perry is very much an outdoorsman enjoying hunting and fishing. He and his wife are also motorcycle enthusiasts enjoying weekend bike trips around Alberta

Duane Konynenbelt

Duane graduated from Dordt University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts and degree in teaching and has been a teacher for almost 30 years. 

Duane is now the Executive Director of Lethbridge Pro-Life.

Duane is involved in high school sports as an athletic director, coach, and builder. He has been awarded the Alberta School’s Athletic Association’s Robert Routledge Award and he was inducted into the Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.  Duane spends his extra time serving in his church, school and on the boards of a variety of mission organizations.  Duane is proud to be a founding board member of the Freedoms Advocate and believes in the principles on which they stand.

Alan Warnock

Alan graduated in 1988 receiving his J.D from University of Calgary School of Law. He was then called to the Alberta bar in 1990.

Born in Northern Ireland Alan immigrated to Canada with his family in 1966.

Alan has been a resident of the Airdrie and Cochrane areas since 1982. He has practiced law in Airdrie since 1998 and runs a small real estate development company. Alan previously served as an Alderman in the City of Airdrie for 15 years until 1998.