About Us

Parliament Hill MOVECAMP began with the vision to bring the community of Ottawa together to workout and stay fit. Founded on the principles of collaboration, the original Parliament Hill MOVECAMP focused on showcasing the fitness talent here in the city of Ottawa. From there, an advisory board was formed to help spread the message of simplifying fitness and fat loss, to make fitness accessible to the community and to encourage communities to stop dieting.

​Parliament Hill MOVECAMP takes place every Thursday at 12:15 on the front lawn of Parliament Hill located at 111 Wellington St.

​This 45 minute upbeat workout is designed for every age and stage in life! We cater to all fitness levels and encourage everyone to come out for an awesome summer workout series on the hill.

Meet the team - MOVECAMP advisory board

Mia St-Aubin​

Founder of MOVECAMP / Executive Director

Mia St-Aubin has been active since birth. Influenced by her mother’s Canadian and world Triath-lon achievements, and her father’s success as a staff sergeant with the OPP, always outrunning his recruits. She is grateful for her models who valued health and fitness. After participating in many sports, Mia narrowed her sport to running and competed at a national level. She excelled at Ottawa University varsity cross country and athletics. After graduation, Mia competed with the Ottawa Lions and competed on the Canadian Para-National team as a guide runner. Mia knew she too wanted to be a role model. When Mia experienced her own health issues she began to find her voice. In the fall of 2015 Mia was diagnosed with Papillary Thyroid cancer. As a result, she now teaches her community that years of overtraining, poor stress management, a lack of sleep and a perpetual disregard to the signals her body were emitting, resulted in the development of this disease. During the summer of 2016 Mia underwent a partial thy-roidectomy and began her road to recovery. During this time, Mia founded the largest free fitness movement in the city of Ottawa. This summer free workout series is a passion project and a mission to get citizens mov-ing. Well over 200 participants work out on the lawns of Parliament Hill all summer long! Mia now educates her community on exercising less, sleeping more and giving our-selves the permission to take care of our bodies. Mia has begun the process of expand-ing her fitness movement across Canada and rebranding the program titling it MOVECAMP, “Move together at Canadian Landmarks”

Samantha Moonsammy

Director of Operations / Advisor

Samantha is a media strategist, event planner, dreamer and visionary of STARFISH. As a founding owner of the company, Samantha has built a solid team of event and marketing specialists who are passionately connected to their clients and willing to over-deliver on every project. With a Master’s Degree in Communications and Culture from York and Ryerson University specializing in new media technologies, a career in strategic communications with the Government of Canada and with hundreds of event marketing projects under her belt, Samantha is able to create original, fresh solutions.

Jessica Chiarello

Managing Director

Jessica Chiarello has had a passion for fitness since she discovered weight lifting in high school. At the age of 19, she graduated from the Fitness and Health Promotion program at Algonquin College and has been a personal trainer ever since. With 12 years of experience in the fitness industry, she has worked with individuals from all different walks of life and has acquired countless fitness and nutrition certifications. In 2014, she decided to push herself to the next level and competed in her first fitness competition. Having won her very first show, she fell in the with the sport and has since won 9 titles with SAF snd Physique Canada. She is also a fitness competition prep coach and has helped many other successful competitors throughout the last 3 years. Jessica has been running bootcamps since as long as she’s been a trainer and was there to kickoff the very first season of the Parliament Hill Movecamp in 2015, alongside founder Mia St-Aubin.

Genevieve Chaput​

Director of Marketing

Genevieve Chaput is a certified personal trainer and owner of Goddess Gains – a total wellness coaching platform to help women regain autonomy over their health.

At 29 years old, she has defeated thyroid cancer, was awarded an editorial columnist position for an international webzine, volunteered to teach the Maasai tribe in Kenya, founded the local chapter of a women empowerment non-profit – I Am That Girl, wrote e-books for the Senate of Canada, competed and placed in two bikini fitness competitions, is married and has worked in advertising and medical sales for the last decade.

Genevieve’s goal is to inspire others through experiences, knowledge, and motivation, and to awaken their authentic selves

Lydia DiFancesco

Director of Partner & Business Development

Lydia Di Francesco helps busy professional women get strong and fit through short, effective workouts so they can keep doing the fun things they love! She is the Founder of Fit & Healthy 365 and Creator of the 15 Minute Workout Club, her signature online fitness program. As a Certified Personal Trainer, Lydia educates clients and the public that healthy living doesn’t need to be complicated. She promotes simple, fun exercise and creating a healthy mindset with a long-term approach to wellness. Lydia makes regular appearances as a Fitness Expert on CTV Ottawa Morning Live and Rogers Daytime Ottawa. She is also an international best selling author, and has been published in national and local health and fitness magazines.

Yves Lanthier​

Director of Community

My name is Yves Lanthier, I’ve been involved in fitness for over 17 years, I am the founder of VTT fitness (Victory Training Team) , I am extremely excited to be part of this mission with this team because we all have the same common goal of getting people moving and healthy.

Cyrstal Yukich

Director of Branding

My name is Crystal Yukich, I’ve been in the fitness industry for over ten years, I am the owner of C Y Fitness Matters and also a Health Educator on the Monfort Academic Family Health Team. What’s amazing is that I have seen the power of physical activity and the positive impact it has in people’s lives. I am also a mom of three incredible young boys and want to teach and inspire all moms to live healthy and active lifestyles with their families. Once you learn how to make fitness a priority for both you and your family your life will be forever changed. My kids are my reason to stay healthy and active as I age!

Stephen Bierbrier

Community Ambassador

Have you found your fitness tribe? What happens after you build a successful law career, watch your kids turn into teenagers and you hit your 50s? For Stephen Bierbrier, it was becoming a community fitness advocate! Stephen has been with Parliament Hill Bootcamp since day 1 as a participant and is thrilled to be in his 2nd year as Parliament Hill MoveCamp’s community ambassador. Stephen is also EPICFitness + Lifestyle’s community events project manager, a yogi, a cyclist, a runner, a hiker, and a dedicated member of November Project, Stadium Workout, Parliament Hill Yoga, and Ottawa City Run Club. Stephen’s goal: get people moving.