We are very pleased to have done the “Opportunity Cost of Not Investing in Interpretation” report – it is so important to have clarity on these challenges and…

Hindia Mohamoud, Director, OLIP
I’m really impressed with the level of energy and commitment around the Health and Wellbeing table and look forward to continuing collaboration between OLIP and OPH.

Marcela Tapia
Ottawa Public Health
The Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre is so happy to have joined the OLIP Health and Wellbeing Sector Table. It is clear that OLIP cares about immigrants and refugees and…

Wendy Tang, Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre
My nomination is an indication that our hard work in building Canada is recognized. All we do is to serve the community in return for embracing us when we needed it.  

Mehdi Mahdavi
Ottawa Immigrant Entrepreneurship Awards Nominee
I was happy to see integration to Algonquin territory and indigenous culture related programming in 2014 WOW. Please continue to involve local Aboriginal organisations and…

Linda Manning
WOW 2014 participant, Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa
The WOW seminar on immigrant women’s nutrition and health was a step in the right direction towards closing the gap between academic researchers and service providers.

Josephine Etowa
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa
All the WOW events that I went to were great – WOW does give a sense of a community trying to improve its attraction and retention!

Caroline Andrew
Professor, University of Ottawa
The OLIP Council is committed to leadership.  In only a few years, we have a common vision and priorities, and are up to the task of implementing the Ottawa Immigration Strategy.

Salimatou Diallo
OLIP Council Vice Chair, Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario
The City of Ottawa will continue to play a lead role in the implementation of the Ottawa Immigration Strategy, just as we did in the founding of OLIP.

Steve Desroches
City Councillor and Deputy Mayor of Ottawa
The target beneficiary of the work of OLIP is the whole community. In this short period we have planted together important seeds for Ottawa’s development.  

Dick Stewart
OLIP Council

Ayshan Mammadzada

February 23, 2022

Ayshan Mammadzada is a PhD student at the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Prof. Luisa Veronis. Her research interests cover the areas of Environmentally Induced Forced Migration; Climate Migration and Global Governance in Canada, and Canadian Experiences for Immigrants and Newcomers in the Post-pandemic Context. She has also interest in conceptualizing skilled migrants’ resilience in Canada’s post-pandemic economy: a Comparative analysis of the role of gender, occupation, and place.

Ayshan has more than 10 years’ work-related experience in local, regional and international projects as an environmental project/data manager, environmental and health program consultant, technical translator in Azerbaijani/English/Russian/Turkish languages with health, and environment specifications. She has also up to 6 years’ managerial and entrepreneurial experience and managed/coordinated donor-funded research projects and capacity-building initiatives, CER (Corporate Environmental Responsibility) and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) projects, including building partnerships with the government, private sector, donors, NGOs, and multilateral organizations.