Management & Board

Management Team

Executive Director

Betty Lepps

Directors

  • Alison Merton (Early Years)
  • Kulwant Kaur (Operations)
  • Ryan Ng (Community Development – interim)
  • Sandra Bodenhamer (RISE Community Health Centre)
  • Sanjeev Karwal (Youth Services)
  • TBC (Community Services)

Managers

  • Amir Sabbaghan (Annex/Recreation)
  • Ana Kazulin (Finance Child Care Program)
  • Ana Mateescu (Family Development/Homelessness)
  • Candice Li (Annex Facility)
  • Carol Mendes (Arts, Culture, and Celebrations)
  • Cynthia Dizon (Financial Controller)
  • Diana Taykandy (Operations Child Care Program)
  • Dovana Singh (Team Lead, Older Adults Programs and Services)
  • Elisa Casilla (Payroll and Benefits)
  • Helen Su (Navigation & Peer Support)
  • Ingrid Figueroa (Foodlands Manager)
  • Irene Mella (Administrative and Communications)
  • Jenny Eng-Chan (Information & Referral/Reception)
  • Jenny Shen (Social Prescribing Community Connector + Walking Club + Seniors Recreation)
  • Joy Que (Pharmacy)
  • Karen Caguioa (Immigrant Women & Youth Leadership Development)
  • Katty Mir (Family Services)
  • Kayla Isomura (Communications)
  • Kiran Momin (RISE Community Health Centre – on leave)
  • Maja Kovac (Youth Programs)
  • Maria Nombrado (Accounting)
  • Nilam Khoja (RISE Community Health Centre)
  • Qasim Ahmadi (Facility)
  • Ross Oh (Food Hub)
  • Ryan Ng (Food Justice)
  • Sabrina Bantog (Child Care HR)
  • Sandra Medina (HR)
  • Sandra Suazo (Settlement Team Lead)
  • Sarah Sheridan (Social Prescribing Community Connector)
  • Sonja Rietkerk (RISE Community Health Centre Clinical Lead & Family Nurse Practitioner)
  • Sue Woodland (Morning Star)
  • Susanna Chu (Housekeeping, Community Lunch & Wellness Programs)
  • Sylvia Barnett (Housing Support)
  • Tanya Findlater (Youth Services)
  • Yndira Arteaga (Volunteer)
  • Vacant (Occupational Health and Safety)

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors provides CNH with direction by establishing policies, priorities, long-term plans and renewal for the CNH Society. It approves the annual budget and provides accountability to the members and funders through an annual external audit.

Board members approve programs and services, goals and objectives, and ensure that these are implemented, monitored and evaluated. The Board develops external relations, receives input from members and the community and works on the development of community resources.

Directors, who all live and/or work in Renfrew-Collingwood, sometimes represent CNH at community meetings. The estimated time commitment is eight-10 hours a month.


Leila Alyssa Trickey, President

Leila joined the Board in 2019 and is an active member of CNH’s Anti-Racism and Equity Committee (AR&E). She holds a Master of Public Health and is dedicated to dismantling systems of oppression through intersectional research methodologies, policy advocacy, and equitable community and health practices.

Leila is a mother and community activist. In her current role as a Community Engagement Specialist with United Way British Columbia’s Hi Neighbour initiative, Leila seeks creative and innovative ways to mobilize residents and facilitate connections across unique and shared experiences. She has been a resident of the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood for four years, actively engaging in volunteerism, community activism, and civic engagement. She firmly believes in the resource-leveraging potential of communities and the power of storytelling for social change.


Samuel Cervantes, 1st Vice-President

It’s been over a decade since Sam co-founded the Filipino Students Association at UBC and developed the Kababayan Academic Mentorship Program, serving newly immigrated Filipino high school students in partnership with the Vancouver School Board. With CNH, Sam is grateful for the opportunity to re-integrate community work as an energizing part of his work-life balance. He currently works as a Senior Manager with Pacific Blue Cross and is a part-time Sessional Instructor with Pacific Coast University.


Rachel Tuttle, 2nd Vice-President

Rachel is a program manager and learning advisor, with a focus on inclusion and community investment. She currently leads Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities and learning and development at Gulf and Fraser credit union and spent several years running financial empowerment programs for Canadian credit unions. Having previously served as a board member with Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, including two years as Vice-President / President, and leading their Human Resources Committee, Rachel is passionate about neighbourhood houses and community. She lives in the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood, and her two young children have been expertly cared for at CNH daycare.


Davy Chiu, Treasurer

Davy created his first web page when dial-up was still cool. He leads large scale IT transformation projects as a professional project manager with the federal government and also consults privately with small businesses. He volunteers with Junior Achievement BC mentoring highschool future capitalists in the Company Program. Davy enjoys taking the family, wife and the boys, 5 and 2, around town by bike and getting ice cream. In his downtime, he likes to sleep.


Henry Lau, Secretary

Henry is a second-generation immigrant of Chinese descent and is deeply grateful to call the vibrant Renfrew-Collingwood community his home. From learning he shouldn’t be picking the flowers off the tomato plants in his school gardening days, to figuring out how to store a festival’s worth of lanterns underneath a swimming pool, the community has been a constant teacher that has helped him grow into a thoughtful community builder. Over the years, Henry has developed a passion for community arts, food security, and the social determinants of health. He currently works in food systems planning with the City of Vancouver. In his spare time, Henry enjoys running as far as his knees will take him, dabbling in baking, and spending time with his and his partner’s two cats.


Amy Liu

Amy grew up in Renfrew-Collingwood and spent many of her teenage years volunteering in CNH programs. Now that she has a family of two young children growing up in the neighbourhood, she is so grateful to have CNH childcare programs and more to support her needs. Amy graduated from Simon Fraser University and holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology with a certificate in HR Management and maintains her CPHR designation. She currently works in a Vancouver non-profit focused on health research as the HR Manager and sees incredible value in giving back to the community. Outside of work and family responsibilities, Amy enjoys reading, singing in a choir and looking for different ways to stay active.


Fred Ametepe

Fred moved to the Collingwood neighborhood in 2018 when he began his master’s program at the University of British Columbia. With a background in clinical research, Fred currently works as a Clinical Research Coordinator with BC Cancer and serves as a Crisis Line Responder with the Canadian Mental Health Association. His professional focus includes mental health and cancer research, reflecting his commitment to improving community well-being. Fred is married to Deborah and is the father of two children, Delali and Selasi. He has been an active member of the Collingwood community since moving to Vancouver.



Henry Ng

Henry has been a part of the Renfrew-Collingwood area for over 35 years. As a child, Collingwood was the backdrop for his activities and festivities, and as an adult, it became the community that supported his family’s needs. Now, Henry focuses on prioritizing Information Technology capital funding, ensuring it is allocated where it’s needed most. He also oversees large-scale projects and project managers, helping to remove roadblocks and reporting on project progress and financials. Henry holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia and a Management of Technology MBA from Simon Fraser University. Having benefited greatly from CNH over the years, Henry is committed to giving back to the community that has provided so much for him and his family through his expertise and neighbourhood familiarity.


Justine Ma

Justine is a storyteller at heart and worked as a journalist at CBC before diving into the world of health-care communications. Always keen to learn, she holds an undergraduate arts degree from UBC, and diplomas in Broadcast Journalism and Public Relations from BCIT and UVic. Justine has long called Renfrew-Collingwood home after growing up in the neighbourhood. She now raises her three children in the area as well. When she’s not busy working at her day job, Justine enjoys hiking, biking and traveling with her young family.


Kristian Arciaga

Kristian is a lawyer who practices commercial real estate law at a leading full-service business law firm. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science at UBC and Juris Doctor at the University of Ottawa.  Kristian was a director of the Federation of Asian-Canadian Lawyers (BC Chapter) from 2016 to 2018. He grew up in Renfrew-Collingwood, where he still resides, with his wife and toddler son, and they enjoy trying new restaurants in the neighbourhood and going to nearby parks.


Lucy Hao Chen

Lucy is a dedicated community supporter with a background in operations and strategic planning. Since moving from Montréal to Vancouver in 2009, she and her family have happily settled in the Collingwood Neighbourhood. Lucy’s strong community ties fuel her passion and active support for the ongoing development of CNH’s programs. In her professional career, she focuses on managing transformational initiatives and operational projects in the investment and tech industries. In her free time, Lucy enjoys exploring new events and neighborhoods around Greater Vancouver with her husband and two children.


Manoranjan (Mano) Rasiah

Mano has had a long career in the banking industry. He also brings a broad multicultural world view gained from his work experience spanning banks in Sri Lanka, Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and Canada. He has resided and raised his children in Renfrew-Collingwood. He has also actively volunteered in cultural, community and non-profit societies in BC. In 2018, he joined the CNH Board of Directors to contribute his skills and financial expertise. Along with English, Mano speaks fluent Tamil and basic Sinhalese.


Randy Yu

Randy has 23+ years of corporate experience and brings deep skills in strategy development, planning, risk management and program governance. Currently Randy leads the Regulatory Affairs department at ICBC and he has previously held management roles at TELUS, PricewaterhouseCoopers and McKesson. He also brings strong academic credentials having a degree in marketing, MBA in finance, certification in project management and process improvement. Randy lived and worked abroad for a number of years before returning to Vancouver in 2010 and settling into the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood. He is married with two children who attend the CNH before-and-after-school program. In his spare time, Randy volunteers as a career mentor and co-leads his neighbourhood block watch.