Stéphanie Talissé
Creative Art Program Coordinator and Intervention Worker Creative Art Program Coordinator and Intervention Worker Stéphanie has been on staff at the St-James drop-in Center since October 2019. She has completed a DEC in Visual Arts from Dawson College and is currently completing her BFA with a specialization in Art Education from Concordia University. She fell…
Alain Spitzer
Executive Director Alain was born and raised in Montreal. After completing his education in 2000 (Trinity College, Ireland), he joined the staff at the Salvation Army booth Centre in downtown Montreal. He has spent the last 16 years working with Montreal’s less fortunate (the homeless, those suffering from mental illness & substance abuse) and been…
Lisa Zimanyi
Social Worker & Volunteer Coordinator Social Worker Lisa was born and raised in Montreal. After studying anthropology at McGill, she volunteered abroad in a garbage slum and opted to pursue her studies in social work at the Université de Montréal. A volunteer at Dans La Rue, homelessness is a cause close to her heart. She…
Antonella Pagano
Antonella Pagano has been a volunteer at St James since 2007, and a staff member since 2010. Antonella‘s relationship with art started at the tender age of eight when her mother enrolled her at the Académie des Beaux Arts at the request of her elementary school teacher. As an entrepreneur, her affinity for aesthetics continued as she coordinated the art department of Tye-Sil, the…
Amanda Dore
Amanda is an intervention worker at St-James. Amanda worked for 5 years as one of the lead animators at a day centre for adults with developmental disabilities. It was during that time that she realized her passion for helping others and she began her studies in Special Care Counselling at Vanier College. Amanda did her final…
Matt Kerr
Operations Manager at StreetSuds With St-James since 2013 and moving to the StreetSuds office in August 2015, Matthew Kerr inherited the east end social enterprise and transformed it into the buzz-worthy business that it is known for today. …”the staff are absolutely exceptional. When everybody is on the floor bins of laundry can evaporate in minutes…