Paulina Maciulis

OCASI

Nominator Comments:

Paulina has spent 25 years developing partnerships that meet community needs with OCASI. She understands the non-profit sector needs and leverages her knowledge and skills to create meaningful impact in a creative way and is always advocating for a shared and common vision. Among her many accomplishments, Paulina was involved in developing partnerships that improved service standards in the immigrant and refugee-serving sector she also developed partnerships with labour and employment rights-focused organizations to improve awareness of workers’ rights. Her collaborative partnership efforts have improve access to services through providing interpretation and translation for newcomers. Paulina was instrumental in establishing the first partnership between OCASI and George Brown College, which led to immigrant settlement services becoming an increasingly important component in community works program curriculum