Board of Directors
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