Our staff is diverse in its roles, and includes a Community Liaison, Manager, Research Assistant, and formal partner representatives.
Kara Manso
Kara Manso (they/she) is a migrant care worker, community organizer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Ontario. They are the former coordinator and community organizer of the Caregivers’ Action Centre, where they supported migrant care workers and built relationships within migrant communities. Their work has also included the Workers’ Action Centre, Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, and Labour Education Centre. Kara currently provides elder care, bringing their lived experience and perspective to their role as Community Liaison at Towards Just Care.
Anna Malla
Anna Malla is a community organizer and educator, arts administrator, care worker, and performing artist who has been working at the intersections of artistic and political community-building spaces for over two decades. Throughout that time, Anna has dedicated herself to grassroots movements for social change, primarily rooted in migrant and health/disability justice, anti-poverty, abolitionist, and anti-imperialist organizing. She often finds herself in both creative and organizing spaces, and is interested in the liberatory power of the place where the two meet. She has held leadership positions in a range of community and arts initiatives and organizations (QPIRG McGill, Caregivers Action Centre, The Switch Project, The Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team, Whippersnapper Gallery), has been part of building community-based research and artistic mentorship programs (South Asian Visual Arts Centre, The AMY Project), and has supported several grassroots groups, unions, and non-profits as an organizer, educator, editor, and facilitator, including Butterfly: Asian and Migrant Sex Worker Support Network, Daily Bread Food Bank, Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, Keeping Six – Hamilton Harm Reduction League, Action LGBTQIA+ avec les ImmigrantEs et RéfugiéEs (AGIR) Montreal, among others. Anna is currently the Executive Director of Whippersnapper Gallery. Since 2025, she has held different roles on the Towards Just Care Project, including Project Manager and Grassroots Community Liaison.
Kim Griarte
Kim is a social worker, researcher and youth activist based in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently an MA student in the Health Policy and Equity program at York University. Her strong interest in anti-racist, anti-oppressive knowledge has drawn her towards building a career in research, with past contributions to research on supportive housing models and homelessness in Toronto. In addition to her role as a research assistant for the Towards Just Care project, she also works as a youth research associate for a Health Canada funded CART-Access project, focusing on advancing access to affirming reproductive care for youth. Throughout her time in Toronto, she has also been involved in Anakbayan Toronto, an anti-imperialist Filipino youth organization fighting for the national democratic movement in the Philippines.
Harmeet Rehal
Harmeet (they/them) is a Trans, Disabled, Mad, Sikh-Panjabi artist, educator, researcher, access doula and organizer based in Tkaronto/Toronto, with roots in working class suburbs in so-called Brampton and Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Across Harmeet’s decade long experience, they have been deeply rooted in Disability Justice organizing, Disability arts and Critical Disability studies academic spaces, and have been both a care giver and care receiver. Harmeet is currently a MA student in the Critical Disability Studies program at York University, where their archival and arts-based research explores Panjabi carpentry and textile design practices across their family lineage through a Crip-Queer, and intergenerational approach.
Sahra Soudi
Sahra Soudi (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and community organizer based in Hamilton, Ontario. She combines her activism and artistic practice to envision better and more just futures for all. Soudi advocates for the inclusion and participation of Black, Indigenous, disabled, and racialized communities in a range of settings, from artist-run centres, and DIY venues, to national galleries. Soudi is an emerging artist and curator, passionate about cross-movement solidarity and disability justice. They honour this framework by empowering and mobilizing their communities to push for radical change.
Megan Linton
Megan Linton (she/her) is a doctoral student in Sociology and Political Economy at Carleton University. Her research uses critical disability & carceral studies to challenge disability institutionalization and their profit motives. Recently, she worked alongside institutional survivors to produce and write the Invisible Institutions podcast. Megan works closely with disability justice movements, and produces research for and with the community. Her writing has been published in Briarpatch Magazine, the Disability Visibility Project, Canadian Dimension, CBC Opinions, the Hamilton Spectator and the Ottawa Citizen.
Jill-Anne Santiago
Jill-Anne is a community worker and organizer dedicated to migrant justice advocacy and education. As a coordinator at the Migrants Resource Centre Canada (MRCC), she collaborates with grassroots migrant organizations and supports workers as they navigate their labor challenges. With almost four years at MRCC, she has gained insight into the various global systems at play that uproot migrants from their homes, and the unique struggles of migrant workers in precarious employment and unstable immigration systems.
