Board of Directors

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OCASI Leaders

Executive committee

President

Janet Madume – Welland Heritage Council & Multicultural Centre/Employment Solutions

Vice-President

Valerian Marochko – London Cross Cultural Learner Centre

Vice-President

Tracy Callaghan – Adult Language and Learning

Corporate Secretary

Mercy Lawluvi – Immigrant Women Services Ottawa

Treasurer

Lucia Harrison – Kitcher-Waterloo Multicultural Centre

Past President

Janet Madume – Welland Heritage Council & Multicultural Centre/Employment Solutions

Regional Directors

Central East

Hermia Corbette – Community Development Council Durham

Central West

Effat Ghassemi – Newcomer Centre of Peel

East

Mercy Lawluvi – Immigrant Women Services Ottawa

North

Deborah Robertson – North Bay & District Multicultural Centre

South

Lucia Harrison – Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre

Toronto

Corina Carvallo – Skills for Change

Yasmine Dossal – COSTI Immigrant Services

West

Valerian Marochko – London Cross Cultural Learner Centre

Provincial Directors

Jeff Kariuki – Job Skills - Markham North Welcome Centre

Emily Kovacs – Niagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre

Alfred Lam – Centre for Immigrant and Community Services

Deepa Mattoo – Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic

Uzma Qureshi – Immigrants Working Centre

Paulina Wyrzykowski – St. Stephen’s Community House

Francophone Director

Bonaventure Otshudi – Centre de santé communautaire Hamilton/Niagara

Women’s Director

Fatima Filippi - Rexdale Women’s Centre

Board Standing Committees

  • Executive
  • Finance
  • Francophone
  • Governance
  • Membership Services
  • Policy and Research
  • Women’s Caucus

OCASI Women’s Caucus

The Women’s Caucus was formed in 2018 and plays a pivotal role in advising OCASI on priorities for women and immigrant-serving organizations in Ontario. The Caucus now has 38 OCASI member agencies. This year the Caucus released the report, “Leading the Settlement SHEcovery: Advancing an intersectional pandemic recovery by investing in women-serving-women-led organizations in Ontario’s refugee-and-immigrant-serving sector”. The report looked at the experience of immigrant and refugee-serving women’s organizations during the pandemic and made recommendations to address inequities.

OCASI Francophone Committee

The Francophone Committee is a Standing Committee of the OCASI Board of Directors and is led by the Francophone Director. The Committee informs OCASI’s work on priorities for francophone agencies and francophone refugee and immigrant services.

(*) Not shown in photos: Tracy Callaghan, Mercy Lawluvi, Jeff Kariuki, Emily Kovacs, Deepa Mattoo