Staff Directory
Head Office
Executive Director
Sudip Minhas
Chief Operating Officer
Shelley Bickford
Finance Manager
Saubhaya Sud – Ext. 105
Human Resources
Tiffany LaRose – Ext. 103
ED Assistant/Bookkeeper
Amal Nasser – Ext. 102
Settlement Manager
Navpreet Multani – Ext. 401
Language Program Manager
Indira Basu – Ext. 301
Information and Orientation Admin
Marylin Ramachandran – Ext. 100
Settlement Counsellors
Alice Ai (Cantonese/Mandarin) – Ext. 405
Hussein Ftouni – Ext. 409
Augustine Jegasothym (Tamil) – Ext. 407
Waheeda Rahman (Bengali/Urdu) – Ext. 404
Macy Tatari (Dari/Farsi) – Ext. 403
Coordinator of Youth Services & HIPPY
Elissa Abboud – Ext. 402, 406
Youth Service Counsellors
Fern Sitoy – Ext. 406
Laksija Ramkumar
HIPPY Home Visitors Ext. 402
Palwasha Qaharzada
Ofelia De Fiesta
Manager – Family, Health & Volunteer Development
Zarina Sherazee – Ext. 201
VAW Counsellors
Nita Goswami – Ext. 202
Farihan Abbas
Gender Based Violence Counsellor
Karishma Devi Baboolall
Afghani Program Coordinator
Sarogul Omari – Ext. 203
Transitional Housing Coordinator
Jila Answari – Ext. 205
English Conversation Class Teacher
Ayisha Ahmad Ext. 204
Mental Health and Well-Being Support Workers
Sakina Qasim – Ext. 502
Rabia Aslam
Morningside Centre
Language Program Manager
Indira Basu Ext. 311
Language Program Assistant
Vinitha Donthi Ext. 312
Lead Instructor
Valentina Khoudiakova
LINC Instructors
Julie Pavlovic
Annuppiriya Balendran
Mustafa Kobari
Care for Newcomer Children (CNC)
Lead CNC Worker – Zarqa Chishti – Ext. 314
CNC Workers
Ruby Mirza Nahar
Neena Sahi
Suparna Rani Mondal
Finch Centre
Language Program Manager
Indira Basu – Ext. 321
LINC Instructors
Aparna Gupta
Dimpi Arora
Elena Daniella Vaduva
Stephen Alexander
Prarthna Singh
Care for Newcomer Children (CNC)
Lead CNC Worker – Sujata Rani Halder – Ext. 304
CNC Workers
Aarti Arora
Dharrshini Satheeshan
Sakilah Ganeshathasan
Kingston Centre
Language Program Manager
Indira Basu – Ext. 321
Program Assistant
Malinidevi Ratnavarathan – Ext. 322
Lead Instructor
Mimoza Hoxha
LINC Instructors
Patricia Antonia Proca
Anne Thirukumar
Armineh Torkian
Care for Newcomer Children (CNC)
Lead CNC Worker – Farheen Farooqui – Ext. 324
CNC Workers
Tahira Zahid Choudhry
Thananya Pichienarn
Jeyavathany Rajan