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Portrait of our new Executive Director of Stella's Place, Wangari Muriuki. Text above says "We are so excited to announce our new Executive Director at Stella’s Place!" and text bottom right says "Let us introduce you to Wangari Muriuki."

Let us introduce you to our new Executive Director!

Wangari Muriuki is an experienced team builder, advocate and activist. Throughout her career, Wangari has demonstrated leadership and compassion while embracing new and innovative approaches to service delivery across the fields of mental health and addictions, housing and precarity, with a focus on racialized and vulnerable communities. For more information and the press release, please see below.

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The Stella’s Team is growing as we develop programs and engage young adults as facilitators and peer supporters. We are committed to hiring staff with a diversity of experiences, and assertively hire young adults with lived experience of mental health issues. Our core organizational competencies are the basis for our hiring process, and we have an energetic, compassionate team. Each team member is committed to values-based practice, working collaboratively, with flexibility, and pioneering to create bold and responsive approaches to change the landscape of young adult mental health.

Our Core Team

Wangari Muriuki

Executive Director

Nzinga Walker

Director of Program Operations

Catherine Dyer

Director of Development

Farah Malik

Director of Finance

Asante Haughton

Peer Development and Training Manager

Venessa D’Souza

Peer Support Worker

Julian Waithe

Clinician

Alex Gosselin

Clinician

Dagmar Schroeder

Communications, Marketing & Stewardship Manager

Miriam Mc Laughlin

Clinician

Kayla Cowan

Peer Support Worker

Carol Clarke

Development Officer

Allison Dunning

Peer Initiatives Manager

Ajay Gallacher

Access Coordinator

Alex Sawatzky

Creative Marketing Coordinator

Anmol Samson

Peer Support Worker

Sulmaz Ghoraishi

Executive Assistant

Willow

Therapy Dog

Emma Woolley

Clinician

Katie Schirelli

Relief Access Coordinator

Sabeena Chopra

Psychiatrist

Cassandra Myers

Relief Online Peer Support Worker

Ashley Ward

Research and Evaluation Manager

Nakeesa Kooshafar

Access Coordinator

Cara Weymes

Family Physician

Jenn Soutar

Relief Peer Supporter

Marielle Bullin

Relief Online Peer Supporter

Katherine Marhong

Community Healing Project Manager

Hannah Iland

Operations & HR Manager

Faith Bachlow

Campaign Manager

Megumi Onishi

Research & Evaluation Assistant

Vanessa de Souza

Clinician

Nicole Classen

Clinician

Sara Khatri

Clinician

Jennille Seedial

Peer Supporter

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Staff Voices

“Stella’s Place means to me an opportunity for new thinking, fresh ideas and an alternative way of doing mental health.”

Shawn Pendenque

Peer Support Training Mentor

“One thing that Stella’s Place will also do is bring mental health treatment to the community and make it more accessible. And I think a critical part of recovery is also being comfortable in what you’re doing or comfortable with what you’re involved with and sometimes the clinical setting is not one that engenders this kind of comfort. So what Stella’s Place will do is circumvent that gap.”

Asante Haughton

Peer Support Training Mentor

“It’s a great privilege to be part of a stellar group of young leaders and staff with such a diverse range of experiences. Each person is passionate about working together in a different way to make change. Our peer supporters and facilitators are leading the charge.”

Jenny Carver

Executive Director

“It's awesome to see a mental health service embracing technology. So many young people live their lives online, it's awesome that a place like Stella's Place wants to serve them there.”

Alicia Raimundo

Young Adult Engagement Facilitator

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