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.

Reception

• Beverley Como
• Siham Alkhashief.

Admin

• Kathleen Muir
• Justin Bains
• Leona Anyi Lu.

Communications

• Amelia Dangerfield
• Setareh Raj
• Dina Aloi
• Anderson Araújo de Miranda , graphic designer
• Max Norton
• Anitha Amarnath
• Saba.

Research

• Aleksandra Djordjevic
• Joelle Shaffer.

Counselling

• Dana Wasserman – Psychologist.
• Donna Chen
• Ahmad Nakhaei
• Elena Hack, expressive arts therapy intern
• Dr. Rahul Soma

Group

• Donna Chen
• Ahmad Nakhaei
• Naoko Sasaki
• Lukasz Felczak
• Marieke Vandenhende
• Rahila
• Sadiq
• Alana
• Jeff.

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.

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
• Huda Al-Saedy
• Angelica Alejandra
• Abdulamir Ali
• Shahla Ali
• Mehmet Ali Can
• Mohammad Alimardan
• Beatriz Alvarez
• Suhair Amin
• Abouzar Amiri
• Emma Andrews
• Neda Ansari
• Eduardo Aragon
• 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
• Brian Chittock
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ethan Murchie
• Allison Muth
• Marisol Nacho
• Ana maria Nacif
• Eyob Naizghi
• 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
• Pablo Francisco Ramirez
• Vikki Reynolds
• Christopher Richmond
• Kirstin Ridout
• Gayle Robinson
• Shirley Roburn
• Carolina Rojas
• Sandra Rose
• Taiseer Sadiq
• Fatemeh Sadri
• Eidy Sadri
• Mohamed Said
• Massoud Saidi
• Merlin Saint Germain
• Thomas Salley
• Mehri Samiee
• Astarte Sands
• Heleen Sandvik
• Harkamal Sangha
• 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
• Ruperto Vazques
• Felipe Vega
• Guillermo Verdecchia
• Irma Vidal
• Anna Vorobyova
• Amita Vulimiri
• Harmony Wagner
• Ali Wajir Hellabad
• Wahan Wanis
• 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