About Intersecting

Adrian Marcuzzi is an Addiction Medicine fellow who completed his undergraduate training at McMaster University, medical school at UBC, and residency at the UBC Department of Family Medicine – St. Paul’s site. After becoming involved in community projects throughout undergrad, Adrian entered medicine with a desire to support marginalized groups. During clinical placements in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, he saw the impact that substance use disorder and the toxic drug crisis had on many of his patients’ lives. He was drawn to the trauma-informed care and shared decision-making that often guided the management of these issues. He also valued how there was always something to offer patients regardless of their stage of change. Harm-reduction supplies, a meal voucher, and a follow-up visit could make a difference. Subsequent hospital-based electives in Vancouver and Toronto exposed him to the full scope of Addiction Medicine and motivated him to pursue subspecialty training.

Dr. Clare Warner (she/her) is an anti-racist educator and researcher with 20 years’ experience leading equity-focused work. She has worked across the education sector as a teacher, teacher-trainer, and consultant. She has expertise in providing strategic advice and guidance on building, strengthening, and evaluating inclusive programming, environments, policies, and processes. Grounded in critical pedagogy and intersectional frameworks, her approach to organizational transformation is driven by a commitment to evolving new ways of thinking and doing to secure better outcomes for all. Clare is co-founder of Colourful Conversations, an anti-racism reading group for women in Hamilton. She holds a PhD in Educational studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Darina Vasek has been a social worker in clinical practice for 25 years, specializing in trauma and gender-based violence. She has worked with clients of all ages and backgrounds in community agencies, primary health care, and hospital settings. She has been involved in numerous community initiatives to improve the system’s response to gender-based violence, develop trauma-informed services for people with disabilities, and advocate for systemic change. In her consulting work, Darina provides trauma- and violence-informed care workshops to social service agencies. She is also a part-time instructor in Community Engagement and Social Work at McMaster University.

Grace Diffey is an award-winning and accomplished senior communications leader, and brings more than 30 years of corporate and non-profit communications and consulting experience to Intersecting.
Her work has centered on developing and executing integrated communication strategies, guiding cross-functional leadership, and fostering inclusive, equity-driven cultures, using research as the starting point.

Jody Boston is a therapeutic clown practitioner with Red Nose Remedy, working in pediatric and geriatric healthcare. She directs Under the Willows, an outdoor arts, garden, and play program at a pediatric mental health facility. She is an arts educator with Theatre Aquarius, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, and a frequent guest artist at McMaster University. Jody performs in a variety of theatrical and comedic works.

Kuanyun Wang is a community organizer, anti-colonial feminist activist, researcher, and journalist. Her work explores how digital cultural production and technology shape diasporic identities and subjectivities, focusing on Palestinian communities in Canada. She is the mother of two amazing Taiwanese-Palestinian children and finds joy in writing Chinese calligraphy and sipping bubble tea. 

Michele Markowski (she/her) has 10+ years experience providing service to marginalized communities across a variety of sectors in Hamilton, Ontario. Most notably within her career thus far, Michele has provided mentorship and support to youth, trauma-informed care to women experiencing homelessness, and engaged in mobile support for those with significant mental health needs.

Michele presently provides leadership within a feminist organization that prioritizes gender equity, reducing barriers, and providing harm-reduction services to women and gender-diverse people. She works to strengthen inclusion and equity, mentor staff teams in low-barrier and trauma-informed practices, and build connections to increase safety for Hamilton’s most vulnerable members.

Dr. Penny Rabiger was a teacher for over a decade and has been working with education and other public sector organizations, charities, social enterprises, and businesses since 2007, supporting their growth, development and equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts. Penny has a portfolio of partnerships delivering workshops, courses, and keynotes. She is involved in grassroots organizing around social justice and racial equity issues. She is Lead Coach on the Anti-Racist School Award Programme with Leeds Beckett University in the UK where she also completed her PhD in 2025 with a thesis titled Unlearning Structural Racism in a School Context. 

Energetic and driven, bilingual with a completed bachelor’s degree of Arts and Humanities at University of Western Ontario. Shay Bramer pursued an Honours Specialization in English Language and Literature, with a minor in Philosophy. He is currently the CPS Team Lead for Salvation Army Lawson Ministries and has been with the organization since April of 2025. Shay is passionate about social justice and dedicated to fostering community. He is eager to grow as an associate of Intersecting, and continue in the pleasure that is gaining and facilitating knowledge.

Wil Prakash Fujarczuk is an enthusiastic educator guided by intersectional feminism, anti-oppression, and critical pedagogy, with several years’ experience working in health promotion; equity, diversity, and inclusion; and sexual violence prevention in higher education. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in educational research, focused on governance, leadership, and policy relating to sexual violence in higher education.

He has held leadership positions in local, provincial, and national associations, including the City of Hamilton’s LGBTQ Advisory Committee, and the Ontario University Sexual Violence Network. He is the recipient of multiple leadership awards, including the Canadian Association for the Prevention of  Discrimination and Harassment in Higher Education’s 2023 Emerging Leadership Award, and the 2024 Courage to Act Campus Educator Award. 

Wil is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (200 hours) with Yoga Alliance, a qualified safeTALK (suicide alertness) trainer with LivingWorks, and a certified hike leader with Hike Ontario.