Our Team
Jen Bonner
jen.bonner@thehamiltonhub.org
info@thehamiltonhub.org
Executive Director & Volunteer Coordinator
Jen has a diverse background in youth work, addictions/crisis management, and harm reduction alongside many years in business development. Jen continues to add to her available support tools by adding Transformative Mediation and Gang Intervention Specialist to her already broad skill set. Over the years, Jen has built meaningful relationships with service users and partner agencies alike to enact meaningful systemic changes using a trauma-informed harm reduction lens.
Jen has overseen the inception of multiple essential services and programs at The Hub. Jen has helped create anti-oppressive, anti-racist policies and procedures that allow The Hub’s services to fill gaps in Hamilton’s social safety net. Jen uses restorative principles and relationship-centred supports to create space for peer-based services, ultimately reducing stigma around addiction, mental health, and institutionalization.
Jen can be contacted directly for all operational or organizational inquiries.
Liz Pfisterer
liz.pfisterer@thehamiltonhub.org
Director of Youth Services
Liz is a graduate of the University of Waterloo in Social Development Studies and Psychology with specializations in Social Work and Social Policy. She is also a Chartered Community Mediator and an experienced group facilitator specifically with those who have sexually offended. She is now completing her Masters of Social Work at the University of Windsor. She has experience working in restorative justice, shelter, harm reduction, outreach, group homes, and crisis intervention. She recently became a Gang Intervention Specialist through the U.S. Department of Justice.
Liz is passionate about building spaces where young men can explore building a healthier mindset around masculinity, violence reduction and intervention, and working from a peer-based, restorative, trauma-informed, anti-racist, anti-oppressive approach.
Liz can be contacted directly for all youth-related inquiries.
Miranda Branyiczky
clinic@thehamiltonhub.org
Clinic Coordinator
Miranda Branyiczky holds an Honours Bachelor of Life Sciences from Queen's University. With a strong background in medical education and health-promotion work, Miranda is committed to improving access to comprehensive healthcare for vulnerable populations within Hamilton.
Miranda has been involved with The Hub as an outreach volunteer for the evening drop-in and clinic programs. She is also the founder of The SkinCARE Project, an initiative that provides Skin Health Kits as well as informational booklets to promote skin health and overall well-being amongst unhoused individuals in Hamilton.
Currently a Doctor of Medicine candidate at McMaster University, Miranda is passionate about preventative medicine and addressing the unique healthcare needs of marginalized communities. She hopes to continue advocating for preventative community health, fostering a supportive and stigma-free clinic environment, and encouraging student participation in health-promotion initiatives.
Miranda can be contacted directly for all clinic-related inquiries.
Board of Directors
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Dr. Luke Kyne
CHAIR
luke.kyne@thehamiltonhub.org -
Dr. Orianna Mak
VICE-CHAIR
orianna.mak@thehamiltonhub.org -
Dr. Teslin Sandstrom
SECRETARY
teslin.sandstrom@thehamiltonhub.org -
Charlie Mattina
BOARD MEMBER
charliem098@gmail.com
Our Community Partners
Our Location
The Hub is located at 78 Vine Street, and is run in partnership with Philpott Church, a congregation located in the heart of downtown Hamilton.
We are forever grateful for the community partnerships that have enabled us to continue serving our guests to the best of our abilities.
