Ms Irmi Hutfless is Senior Manager, Language, Skills and Social Development at Catholic Crosscultural Services (CCS). She has worked in leadership roles in the community services sector both in Canada and internationally for over 15 years. From 2012 to 2018 she served as member and, from 2016 onwards vice-chair of the Board of the Anglican United Refugee Alliance and is currently a member of the Scarborough Health Network Community Advisory Council. She has been working with UTSC on several partnership projects over the past years, including the Newcomer Insights Collaborative project. Ms Hutfless is a University of Toronto alumna, and holds an MSW from the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. She has also earned a BSW from FH Campus Wien, University of Applied Sciences, Austria.