Board Of Directors
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Christina Stramacchia
Christina Stramacchia has worked as a social worker within the criminal justice system for 15 years. Her experience spans 20 years working with mental health, addiction and at risk youths. Christina is a graduate of the University of Windsor and obtained her Masters Degree at Wayne State University in 2003. More recently Christina has been able to check off a bucket list goal and have published her Memoir about growing up with a craniofacial difference. She opted to join the ALSO Board to assist in advocating for those with physical limitations in September 2017.
Allison Prieur
Allison has been working with non-profits in Canada for over 20 years. Her experience includes engagement, evaluation, and leadership roles at small to mid-sized organizations and experience with funding organizations including the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ontario Ministry of Health, and United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County. She helps organizations identify needs, design learning-centred strategies, evaluate success, adapt practices, and build relationships to amplify impact.
Allison is a lifelong learner. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Developmental Psychology and Social Work from the University of Windsor and a master’s in Public Policy from Simon Fraser University. She is completing the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation at Western Michigan University focusing on organizational change leadership. She is Past President of the Board of Directors at Assisted Living Southwestern Ontario, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor (1918), and the Professional Development Committee Co-Chair of the Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society. Her family lives in Tecumseh, Ontario
John Stroyan
John is a Senior Manager with General Motors with over 40 years of experience in Health and Safety. He currently sits on GM’s executive Disability committee helping to provide oversight to the committee. Outside of GM, John has spent over 35 years on community service activities, including regional chair for St John’s Ambulance (South Eastern Region).
Sarah Bondy
Director
Sarah is a disability advocate. She has always had a calling to help people and has always wanted to leave this world a little better than when she came into it. She just didn’t know how to go about it; that all changed one night when she stumbled upon the documentary Crip Camp on Netflix. This led her to a series of webinars on disability justice, it was then that the fire was lit within her.
She became a member of the CAG and then later was nominated chair in 2019. The accomplishment she is the proudest of so far is when the CAG was able to secure the continuation of two rental subsidies Strong Communities 1&2 which were in danger of ending. What she hopes to accomplish with being a board member here at ALSO is to help make the people within this organization lives better. Our lives are all interconnected, and she believes we all need to help each other when and if we can.
Stuart Forsyth
Stuart Forsyth has worked in the finance and accounting field for almost 25 years. His background includes positions at Caesars Windsor (Cost Accountant), Windsor Salt (Controller), and ENWIN Utilities (Manager, Corporate Accounting).
Stuart also has spent the last 5 years as a part time instructor at St. Clair College within the Zekelman School of Business and Information & Technology.
Stuart has graduated from St. Clair College (3 Year Business Diploma – Accounting), The University of Windsor (Bachelor of Business Administration), as well as obtained his CPA, CMA designation.
He is currently a resident of Lasalle, with his wife and two sons.
With a desire to help in his community, he is eager to put his knowledge and experiences to use in assisting ALSO to ensure it’s clients live fruitful, independent lives, free of barriers, and full of diversity and equity.
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