BWSS Staff Directory & Board of Directors
CRISIS + INTAKE LINE
Toll-free: 1-855-687-1868
Business Phone: 604-687-1868
Counselling Phone: 604-687-1867
My Sister’s Closet – 3958 Main St: 604-687-0770
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AWARE PROGRAM
Jennifer
Women’s Employment
Crisis team
Elsa
Crisis Line & Intake Coordinator
Meaza
Women’s Support Worker
Nazlee
Women’s Support Worker
Wendy
Women’s Support Worker
Counselling team
Michelle
Indigenous Women’s Counsellor
Elza
Women’s Counsellor
Angelica
Latin American Women’s Counsellor
FUNDRAISING team
Babita
Chair of Fundraising Committee
Leona
Fundraising Consultant
Justice Centre team
Hannah
Legal Advocate
Mayra
Specialized Legal Advocate
Leadership team
Rosa
Director of Clinical Practice and Direct Services
Samantha
Manager of Development & My Sister’s Closet & Finance
Claudia
Manager, Advancing Women’s Awareness Regarding Employment (AWARE)
Summer-Rain
Manager of the Justice Centre
Lani
Manager of Social Enterprise, Marketing and Communications
Johanne
Manager of Community-Based Victim Services & Synchronicity
Lucy
Manager of Social Enterprise
BWSS Executive Director:

Angela Marie MacDougall
Through her community-based organizing, frontline work and activism over three decades, Angela Marie MacDougall has been deeply involved in movements for social justice.
Since the nineties, Angela has developed training curricula from an intersectional and anti-oppression framework while her work as a trainer with community-based organizations, systems players, universities and in the larger public sphere has always emphasized the influence of a community-based response toward gender, racial, economic justice.
Angela’s impact includes development of empowerment and advocacy-based program and service delivery models that address gender-based violence and violence against women that are grounded in strong theoretical frameworks that include feminist trauma-informed analysis that integrate the role substance use and mental wellness. Angela Marie MacDougall has edited and/or written ten manuals on addressing gender-based violence and violence against women from an intersectional anti-oppression feminist framework and has spoken to hundreds of groups throughout Canada, the United States and in China.
An ever present theme and focus of her work has been the range of social inequities and environmental problems associated with colonialization and the generalized criminalization of communities of colour that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. Her work grows directly from her own experiences as a bi-racial Black woman who grew up amongst violent racist misogyny both at home, at school and in the larger community. Her parents met in the Black community known as Hogan’s Alley that in the seventies was razed by Vancouver City Hall, so her work grows directly from her own experiences as a bi-racial Black woman who grew up amongst violent racist misogyny both at home, at school and in the larger community and she became politicized to end violence against women after her high school friend was raped and murdered while on a date. She credits the birth of her daughter as a galvanizing event. She also has conducted extensive participatory action research on numerous aspects relating to gender, race and violence.
Angela Marie MacDougall is a founding member of Feminists Deliver, a provincial organization dedicated to shedding a light on the urgent issues facing marginalized communities in British Columbia and the grassroots struggles leading the way for transformative change while building transnational connections between grassroots intersectional feminist movements; and re-envisioning the global women’s agenda as one that centers a diversity of grassroots intersectional feminist voices.
Grounded solidarity organizing, grassroots activism and frontline service delivery, Angela is committed to taking action on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. She is a long standing member of Vancouver’s February 14th Women’s Memorial March, the first women’s memorial march held since 1992 in response to the murder of a woman in the Vancouver neighbourhood named the Downtown Eastside.
Angela is founding member of Intersectional Feminist Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative bringing together researchers, academics, data and policy analysts, students and community organizers to provide critical research, data, policy and strategic support for the ending violence, gender equity and social justice movements.
Ms. MacDougall was named a Remarkable Woman by the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Magazine named her one of Vancouver’s most powerful people.

Social Enterprise team
Abigail
Volunteer Coordinator – My Sister’s Closet