VAST Volunteers and Interpreters

Meet the VAST volunteers and interpreters, past and present. These hardworking and compassionate individuals help VAST in supporting Refugee mental health in BC and beyond.

Volunteers

Aleksandra Djordjevic – Research & Documentation Center
Dana Shuster – Psychologist
Jhevoi Melville – Social Worker
Joelle Schaffer – Administration
Justin Bains – Social Media
Mackenzie Do – Administration
Rahila Farooq – Research & Documentation Center
Minoo Asadi – Clinical Counsellor
Jamal Nabavi – Clinical Counsellor
Naaz Shekhon – Social Media
Max Norton – Research & Documentation Center

Amelia Dangerfield – Communications

Interpreters

- - Huda Alawad – Arabic
  - Jan Huang – Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese)
  - Golmehr Kazari – Farsi
  - Maryam Esmaeilzadeh – Farsi / Kurdish
  - Carolina Aguirre – Spanish
  - Alejandra Rodriguez – Spanish
  - Omar Al-Jameel – Arabic
  - Francis Nowactynski – French
  - Mustafa
  - Yara
  - Jorge
  - Rubina
  - Sasha
  - Anas
  - Omid
  - Nasyar
  - Amenah
  - Souad
  - Crystal.

Past Volunteers

Since 1986, VAST has had hundreds of committed, skillful volunteers helping to bring our mission to life. Below is a short alphabetical list of some of our volunteers. If you have been a volunteer in the past, we would love to hear from you, please reach out to our ED: frank@vast-vancouver.ca

Iyabo Abass-Opere
Eva Aboud
Amiri Abouzar
Monica Aguado
Abdul-Aziz Al-RUBAYE
Alana
Huda Al-Saedy
Angelica Alejandra
Abdulamir Ali
Shahla Ali
Mehmet Ali Can
Mohammad Alimardan
Siham Alkhashief
Dina Aloi
Beatriz Alvarez
Anitha Amarnath
Suhair Amin
Abouzar Amiri
Emma Andrews
Neda Ansari
Eduardo Aragon
Anderson Araújo de Miranda
Barbara Arnold
Jose Luis Ayala Alavez
Puneh Erfan Bahrami
Dr. Robert J. Baker
Mamoud Ghafele Bashi
Peter Baza
Fabiola Bazo
Peter Bazovsky
Melissa Beedle
Gholamreza Behboudi
Carmen Bellows
Laura Best
Patricia P Blendal
Conrad Bowden
Pamela Bromley
Bediako Buahene
Dawit Likasa Bulcha
Eduardo Bureos
Pablo Bustos
Alper Caglayan
Shannon Caldwell
Jackie Challis
Alex Charlton
Donna Chen
Brian Chittock
Beverley Como
Craig Costantino
Manuela Costantino
Paul Coulter
Claudette Court
Devyn Cousineau
Joanne Crandall
Marilyn Crystal
Janice Cywinski
Guergen Dankwort
Nooshin Daya
Dr. Yaya de Andrade
Ruben del Muro
Anna Derbis
Michael Dhaliwal
Christina Dhami
Amrit Dhatt
Mira Dodig
Taraneh Erfan
Hassan Erfan
Mahshid Esfandiari
Adriana Espinoza
Danilo Estrada
Denise Faccini
Shokoh Filom
Mehriar Filom
Adrian Fine
Noreen Finerty
Duane Fontaine
Carol Forcier
Rosie Forth
Teya France
Fran Gallo
Dr. Soma Ganesan
Jodie Gauthier
Sareh Geary
Davood Ghavami
Genesis Gonzales-Leang
Oscar Gonzalez
Brian Green
Rita Green
Irene Guinand
Tamara Guyon
Masoud Habibian
Matias Hacker
Elizabeth Hafeli
Saif Hammed
Gail Harmer
Hamid Hashemi
Erik Hellgren
Michael Wilkins Ho
Negar Hooshmand
Katherine Hoover
Kirby Huminuik
James Hutchinson
Heyin Insookim
Ahmad Saleh Khary Ismail
Mauro Jao
Jeff
Satpal Jheeta (Saph)
Azadeh Joharjfard
Susan Johnston
Kambiz Joolaie
Mahpareh Kadri Mokri
Riba Kalb
Golmehr Kazari
Jemal Kenhar
Hossein Kia
Myung Hak kim
Maureen Kirkpatrick
Graham Kosakoski
Selim Koyuncu
Sebnem Koyuncu
Niko Kozobolidis
Freya Kristensen
Anna Kristensen
Greta Kubiliute
Petros Faltamo Kurka
Henry Kurnia
Kie Langille
Harvey Larochelle
Sandra Leang
Yaneth Ledesma
Kathleen Lehan
Shaina Lehan
Jean Lempriere
Ross Lempriere
Sally Li
Augusta Lokhorst
Lise Loubert
Leona Anyi Lu
Jovana Lukic
Hui Luo
Geoff Lyon
Kaleen M’Namara
Clair MacGougan
Sarah MacQueen
Frances MacQueen
John MacQueen
Melia Mah
Joseph Makom
Norma Marcos
Aurelie Marguerite
Erin Marshall
Rosana Martinez
Mariana Martinez Vieyra
Neazi Marzieh
Dr. Gabor Maté
Leigh Matthews
Richard Mauti
Dylan Mazur
Carolyn McCool
Tiffany McFadyen
Trilby McGaw
Kate McLean
Dave McMurran
Sacha Medine
Shonee Mendoza
Victoria Mendoza
Dhaliwal Michael
Michael Milligan
Anne Mills
Naomi Minwalla
Jamal Mirmiran
Yoko Mizuno
Rahman Mofti
Kristin Moller
Shane D. Molyneaux
Paige Morrow
Ashkan Mosavatchi
Jennifer Moss
Arvin Mossavatchi
Maryam Mousavian
Ismael Mubarak
Kathleen Muir
Ethan Murchie
Allison Muth
Marisol Nacho
Ana maria Nacif
Eyob Naizghi
Ahmad Nakhaei
Marzieh Neazi
Jeff Neff
Mehdi Niavarani Zadeh
Azar Niazi
Andrea Noakes
Talisa Nyte
Karen O’Connor
Paul Okhous
Cindy Pan
Adriane Pasa
Valerie Patrick
Diane Payette
Sara Paynter
Nevenka (Beba) Peric
Anne Perival
Kim Peterson
Nilda Phillips Phillips
Rebeca Pinca
Nelson Pineros
Barineka Pius Gbarazia
Paul Plut
Jake Pogoson
Jill Pollack
Antony Porcino
Alfredo Porras
DeeDee Poyner
Terry Preston
Michael Priest
Erin Pritchard
Tarique Qayumi
Sarah Race
Rahila
Setareh Raj
Pablo Francisco Ramirez
Vikki Reynolds
Christopher Richmond
Kirstin Ridout
Gayle Robinson
Shirley Roburn
Carolina Rojas
Sandra Rose
Saba
Sadiq
Taiseer Sadiq
Fatemeh Sadri
Eidy Sadri
Mohamed Said
Massoud Saidi
Merlin Saint Germain
Thomas Salley
Mehri Samiee
Astarte Sands
Heleen Sandvik
Harkamal Sangha
Naoko Sasaki
Linda Schucroft
Stephanie Sersli
Rosa Sevy
Ali Shahin
Asai Shahin
Brooke Shakspeare
Abisheikh Sharma
Tricia Sharp
Farid Sherazi
Goli Shifteh
Mady Sieben
Rekha Singh
Joshua Sohn
Andrea Sola
Bozena Soltys
Gultaj Somani
Dani Srour
Lesley Stalker
Irene Sternitzke
John Steven
Peter Stockholder
Zool K.B. Suleman
Magdalena Sweetgrass
Salimeh Tabirizi
Shalene Takara
Carrie Taylor
Yasmin Tayob
Shireen Tayob Folsen
Scott J. Tebbutt
Aun Than
Mariam Theophanous
Deb Thomas
Soraya Thomas
Christine Thomas
Brian Thomas Peter
Kate Thomas-Peter
Gordon Thompson
Corina Tomlinson
Eric Tse
Adriana Tweedlie
Azam Tyab
Katia Tynan
Catherine Vail
Patrik Valerie
Marieke Vandenhende
Ruperto Vazques
Felipe Vega
Guillermo Verdecchia
Irma Vidal
Anna Vorobyova
Amita Vulimiri
Harmony Wagner
Ali Wajir Hellabad
Wahan Wanis
Dana Wasserman
Seiko Watanabe
Sandi Watson
Rene Weideman
Brenda Wemp
Ben West
Peter Williamson
Hassan Wojcik
Sarah Wojcik
Angela Wong
Emily Wong
Yvonne Woo
Joseph Wosk
Elaine Wynne
Kay Young
Barb Young
Ali Yusuf
Farhad Zandi
Hamid Zarei
Michelle Zhang
Maggie Ziegler

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