Our Staff

The Immigrant Women's Centre has five sites in Hamilton serving immigrant women and their families. We welcome you to drop by to visit and learn more about our programs and services, or contact one of our staff members listed below.

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Administrative Team

Ines Rios Executive Director 905-529-5209 x 229 irios@IWCHamilton.ca   Alinamaria Rodriguez ExecutiveAssistant/ Volunteer Coordinator 905-529-5209 x 227 linc@IWCHamilton.ca  Yolanda Riano Accountant 905-529-5209 x 226 yriano@IWCHamilton.ca  Heba Waby Administrative Assistant 905-529-5209 x 221 admain@IWCHamilton.ca

Elizabeth Webb  Assistant Director  905-529-5209 x 228  ewebb@IWCHamilton.ca  Cassandra Roach  Group Facilitator  905-529-5209 x 223 croach@IWCHamilton.ca  Bozena Woszczyk Childminding Services Supervisor 905-529-5209 x 231 bwosz@IWCHamilton.ca  Alyssa Lai Communications Coordinator 905-529-5209 x 257 alai@IWCHamilton.ca

Employment Services

Doris Carranza (Spanish) Settlement Counsellor / Employment Specialist 905-525-9676 x 225 dcarranza@IWCHamilton.ca  Thary Phy (Cambodian) Settlement Counsellor / Employment Specialist 905-529 - 5209 x 224 tphy@IWCHamilton.ca

Rosemary Aswani (Swahili) Settlement Counsellor / Employment Specialist 905-387-1100 x 222 raswani@IWCHamilton.ca

Language Training

Downtown Silvia Reynaga Site Coordinator 905-529-5209 x 233 sreynaga@IWCHamilton.ca

Hamilton North Wasan Mohamad Site Coordinator 905-525-9676 wmohamad@IWCHamilton.ca

Isabella Marchese Education Coordinator 905-529-5209 x 258 imarchese@IWCHamilton.ca

Settlement Services

Radenka Lescesen (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Russian, German)  Settlement Manager 905-387-1100 x 246 rlescesen@IWCHamilton.ca  Nada Tuta (Spanish, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian) Family Settlement Counsellor ntuta@IWCHamilton.ca 905-387-1100 x 226 Bothaina Mohamed (Arabic) Family Settlement Counsellor 905-387-1100 x 224 bmohamed@IWCHamilton.ca  Aivel Cagas (Filipino) Family Settlement Counsellor 905-525-9676 x 228 acagas@IWCHamilton.ca  Christine Wong (Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay) Family Settlement Counsellor 905-387-1100 x 223 cwong@IWCHamilton.ca  Lina El - Ali (Arabic) Family Settlement Counsellor 905-529-5209 x 247 lelali@IWCHamilton.ca

Vicky Thind (Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali) Family Settlement Counsellor 905-573-7663 x 222  vthind@IWCHamilton.ca  Asha Bogor (Somali) Family Settlement Counsellor 905-525-9676 x 224 abogor@IWCHamilton.ca  Jane Sumwiza (Kirundi, Swahili, Kinyarwanda) Family Settlement Counsellor 905-529-5209 x 236 jsumwiza@IWCHamilton.ca  Wendy Johnson (Spanish) Family Settlement Counsellor 905-529-5209 x 245 wjohnson@IWCHamilton.ca  Phoebe Michael Family Settlement Counsellor 905-525-9676 x 227 pmichael@IWCHamilton.ca  Vivyan Salih  (Arabic, Kurdish) Family Settlement Counsellor  905-573-7663 x223 vsalih@IWCHamilton.ca