TEAO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
nicole brown-faulknor
FOUNDER AND CEO
Nicole is the Founder of Wounds 2 Wings Trauma + Psychotherapy Services, a Yoga Instructor, Registered Psychotherapist, Child and Youth Counsellor, Trauma Consultant, Author and Trauma Survivor. She is also a member of both the Colleges of Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario and the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy with over 18 years of professional experience working with marginalized, vulnerable and oppressed communities, individuals, families and children.
kristina snjaric
DIRECTOR OF LEADERSHIP AND ADVISORY
Kristina is a freelance digital marketer and copywriter with a passion for connecting. While completing her studies in marketing, she was involved with non-profit sport organizations in both the event and digital spaces that focused on using sport to promote mental wellness as well as uplift Indigenous youth.
Becca GREGORY
ADMINISTRATION OFFICER & MARKETING DIRECTOR
Becca is a versatile creative with a passion for all things art, mental health, and community. Becca holds a Communications degree from McMaster University and brings a diverse range of experience in photography, graphic design, and digital marketing. She currently works in Social Media Marketing in Toronto, combining her creative skills with strategic marketing to engage diverse audiences.
With seven years of experience working alongside Nicole Brown Faulknor, Becca has gained valuable insight into Nicole’s anti-oppressive, non-traditional approaches to psychotherapy and community care. This experience continues to inspire Becca’s dedication to mental health advocacy and social justice, which she actively integrates into both her professional and personal life.
amanda j. edwin
PARALEGAL & NOTARY PUBLIC
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Amanda immigrated to Canada with her family in 2008. She was an Educator in Trinidad and Tobago for over 21 years and ended her tenure as a Head of Department. Over the years, Amanda has worked as a Litigation Paralegal and gained a significant amount of administrative and courtroom experience in Small Claims, Provincial Offences and Landlord and Tenant matters, experience she now brings to Amicus Paralegal Services.
Website: kwnotary.ca
MOLLY TANDON
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Molly Tandon is a relationship-driven project and partnerships leader who works at the intersection of collaboration, strategy, and community impact. Her work focuses on building meaningful connections across education, corporate, and nonprofit sectors — creating pathways where ideas turn into shared action.
Born in India and now based in Canada, Molly draws on her lived experience as a woman of color and immigrant to bring empathy, inclusion, and cross-cultural understanding to her leadership. With a background spanning executive operations, partnership development, and community engagement, she combines structure and vision to help organizations grow with purpose.
A certified Project Management Professional, Molly brings both care and clarity to every collaboration. At TEAO, she is dedicated to nurturing partnerships that embody trauma-informed values, collective healing, and sustainable community change.
Daniella maylor
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE / TREASURER
Daniella Maylor brings over four years of experience in finance, administration, and operations across multiple sectors. Raised in a marginalized neighborhood, she was inspired by leaders who reflected her identity and modeled equity-driven leadership. Her lived experience, together with studies in feminist, Black and Indigenous, anti-racism, and anti-oppression frameworks, continues to shape her commitment to healing justice and community impact. Daniella also serves as Director of Finance at StartProud and Chair of Governance at Leeds & Grenville Interval House. As Treasurer of TEAO, she is dedicated to ensuring that the organization’s financial and governance practices reflect its mission to support marginalized communities across Ontario.
victoria lewis
DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL INNOVATION & ACCESSIBILITY
Victoria Lewis is a software developer and accessibility advocate with an Honors Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Her work centers on designing digital tools that meet both the practical and emotional needs of the people who use them. She has developed software for holistic task management that supports students by acknowledging the realities of stress, overwhelm, and the nervous system. Her background also includes web development, Android and Windows software engineering, and the ongoing creation of education and productivity resources for neurodivergent learners.
As a black woman who grew up being talked over and minimized, Victoria witnessed the ways that marginalized voices were often misunderstood or outright dismissed. These early experiences shaped her commitment to justice, accessibility, and community care. They also inform her belief that digital spaces should be designed with compassion, intention, and an understanding of how exclusion impacts the body and mind.
As Director of Digital Innovation and Accessibility at TEAO, Victoria is dedicated to building technology that expands access to mental health support for marginalized communities. She brings both her technical skills and her lived experiences into her work, ensuring that every resource she creates supports dignity, autonomy, and care for those who have too often been left out of traditional systems.
Website: https://www.eduaccessible.com/
TEAO BOARD MANUAL
The governing Board of The Wounds 2 Wings Trauma and Embodiment Association of Ontario (TEAO) will provide effective and ethical governance leadership on behalf of its stakeholders’ interest to ensure that the organization focuses on its purpose and outcomes for the persons served, resulting in the organization’s long-term success and stability. Click HERE to read more and download the TEAO Board Manual.
INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE & ADVISORY TEAM
zainab (zayn) dikko
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH COORDINATOR
Zainab (Zayn) Dikko has faced her own mental health struggles and continues to navigate them every day. She understands how lonely it can feel to suffer in silence and knows that healing isn’t a destination but an ongoing process, one that requires support, understanding, and a sense of belonging.
As a social work student at the University of Waterloo and Community Engagement & Outreach Coordinator at TEAO, she is dedicated to creating the kind of spaces she once needed, places where people feel heard, valued, and supported. She believes that mental health care should be accessible, culturally competent, and rooted in community.
Through her work, Zayn hopes to help those who have been silenced by stigma, power imbalances, or systemic barriers reclaim their voice, their story, and their right to support, because no one should have to struggle alone.
IONA SKY
VISIONARY, LEADER, CONSULTANT & EDUCATOR
Iona Sky (she/her) is an Indo-Canadian social worker, consultant and educator. She has worked in the social services for over 20 years and is a consultant and leader in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (with a particular focus on transfer to practice/action), leadership and organizational development. Iona is also part-time faculty in the Social Work department at the University of Waterloo. In all her work, both personally and professionally, Iona brings her lived intersectional experiences as a queer immigrant parent with invisible disabilities. This self-reflexive journey as a dually marginalized and privileged woman in the Canadian landscape has provided Iona with different experiences of oppression as well as privilege, which she uses to inform her advocacy and social justice work.
Website: ionasky.ca
GABRIELLE FRENCH
YOUTH CARE & COMMUNTIY LIASON
Gabrielle French (she/her) is deeply rooted in the stories of her community. Growing up in the GTA and now living in Cambridge, she has witnessed firsthand how government safety nets often fall short, leaving individuals without the support or safe spaces they need to heal, grow, and stabilize. Hearing friends, peers, and community members share their struggles to access therapeutic care or supportive coaching has shaped her belief that systems must do better — and that people need each other to move forward.
A recent graduate of the University of Guelph with a BAH in Psychology, Gabrielle was inspired by professors, mentors, and frontline professionals who model what compassionate, informed care can look like. Their influence sparked her commitment to pursue tools for systemic change and contribute her energy toward building more accessible, embodied pathways to healing.
Her passion for trauma-responsive, person-centered support is what drew her to TEAO. Gabrielle believes that communities transform when people are willing to reach out, lift one another, and create environments where healing is a shared responsibility. As TEAO’s Youth Care & Community Liaison, she is dedicated to strengthening accessibility, amplifying youth voice, and helping shape systems where care, safety, and collective healing are not optional — but foundational.
TEAO VOLUNTEER OUTREACH TEAM
Nora De Arco
CREATIVE PROJECT MANAGER
A creative project manager with over four years of experience in projects centering on community empowerment, Nora focuses on empowering women, especially women of color, to take ownership of their health, mind, and body. As an Afro-Latina woman passionate about holistic health, it is an honor for her to translate and break down common mental health issues/approaches in her community, where mental health is taboo. Nora holds a Master of Divinity from Boston University and is versed in project management for healthcare advertising and digital and print projects.
Kelly o’sullivan
Kelly O'Sullivan (she/they) is a psychotherapist and registered social worker with over two decades of experience in the downtown Toronto East community. Kelly offers help, advocacy, and support to diverse individuals and communities, specializing in somatic, embodied traditional, and evidence-based therapies. Their training includes EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), meditation, yoga, pranayama, and other practices that support the healing of the body, mind, and spirit. With the Trauma Embodiment Association of Ontario (TEAO), Kelly focuses on outreach, promoting healing through community and connection.
DANIELLE ALLEN
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
With a degree in psychology, Danielle is passionate about trauma-informed, holistic mental health care. She has a decade of experience in environmental advocacy, community-centered conservation, and mobilizing action for systemic change. Currently preparing for graduate studies in psychotherapy, she is committed to integrating body-centered healing practices to support recovery. As Volunteer Coordinator, she focuses on strengthening TEAO’s volunteer network to better serve the community and increase access to support.