Co-founder of JustChange, a microgranting organization in Ottawa that pools the donated funds of like-minded youth into a periodic grant for ideas that demonstrate potential for positive social or environmental change. Currently, he is an advisor/economist for Finance Canada in the financial sector policy branch (see https://www.fin.gc.ca/branches-directions/fsp-eng.asp for description of the branch).

Read was the Board Chair from 2013 to 2017. He also served as Secretary.