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Meet our Team

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Parsa Abrishamkar (he/him)

President

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Sara Singh (she/her)

Vice President

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Taylor Bootsma (she/her)

Co-Founder and Program Director

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Claudia Barreto Rodriguez (she/her)

Co-Founder and Social Media Director

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Alana Kim (she/her)

Digital Media Coordinator

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Audrey Warner (she/her)

Volunteer Director

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Xiaoying Zhang (she/her)

Resource Development Director

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Pooria Taheri (he/him)

Financial and Accounting Director

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Mandeep Rajput (she/they)

Artist Engagement Director

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Ahn Lee (she/her)

External Relations Director

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Nyla Nguy (she/her)

Crafting Change Director

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Lauren Rutherford (she/her)

Crafting Change Director

Downtown Eastside Arts and Crafts Society

​We respectfully acknowledge that the Downtown Eastside Arts and Crafts Society operates on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xÊ·mÉ™θkÊ·É™y̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sÉ™lilwÉ™taɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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