Our team
The people who pack the trailers
A small staff, a volunteer board and thousands of trained volunteers. Everyone here has worked a shelter shift, including the people who sign the cheques.
These people are fictional. A real site would use real, consented portraits.
Leadership
Leadership team
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Lena Marchetti
Executive Director
Lena started as a shelter volunteer in 2011 and has led Shelterbelt since 2019. She still takes a night shift on every major response.
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Daniel Okafor
Director of Operations
Daniel runs response deployments: who goes where, with what, and how fast. Before Shelterbelt he managed municipal emergency operations.
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Priya Raman
Director of Programs
Priya oversees shelter, health, rebuilding and recovery programs. She trained as a social worker and built our caseworker model.
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Tomas Lindqvist
Director of Logistics
Tomas keeps the four warehouses stocked and the trailers packed. He spent 15 years in freight before joining the team.
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Grace Tremblay
Director of Finance
Grace leads finance, audit and our yearly transparency report. She is the reason every response gets its own cost report.
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Samir Haddad
Head of Volunteers
Samir recruits and trains our volunteer teams across four regions, and runs the spring and fall training seasons.
In the regions
Regional leads
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Marcus Delorme
Prairies and North
Runs the Saskatoon warehouse and its local partner network.
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Hana Kobayashi
BC and the Mountains
Runs the Kamloops warehouse and its local partner network.
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Isabelle Gagnon
Ontario and Quebec
Runs the North Bay warehouse and its local partner network.
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Colin MacIsaac
Atlantic
Runs the Moncton warehouse and its local partner network.
The region
Governance
Board of directors
Six unpaid volunteers who set direction, approve the budget and hire the Executive Director. Terms are three years, renewable once.
- Marguerite Bouchard Chair · Retired fire chief
- Kenji Watanabe Treasurer · Chartered accountant
- Ruth Anderson Secretary · Rural municipal councillor
- Isabel Cardenas Director · Public health nurse
- Neil Sutherland Director · General contractor
- Farah Qureshi Director · Former response volunteer
Give where it helps most
Help us be ready before the next call comes.
Most of our speed is decided months ahead, on a warehouse shelf. A gift today keeps a trailer packed for the next family who needs it.
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