Mary Gordon (born 13 October 1947) is a Canadian educator, social entrepreneur, child advocate and parenting expert.
In 1981, she founded Canada's first school-based Parenting and Family Literacy centres, which have become public policy in Ontario and are being used as a model for similar programs internationally.
She was also invited to share her parenting expertise with the Nelson Mandela Children's Foundation in South Africa.
Their first meeting was in 2006, at the Vancouver Dialogues, and their second was in 2008, in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Dalai Lama's Seeds of Compassion event.
[6] In 2018, she was appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province's highest honour, for her work as a "social entrepreneur, educator, author, child advocate and parenting expert".