Counsellors

Settlement Counsellor
Carolina Orduz

(705)743-0882 ext 228
carolina@nccpeterborough.ca

Languages: Spanish and English

Carolina provides settlement services to new Canadians.

Carolina was born and raised in Colombia. Carolina completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Trent University in 2005. She has been working at the New Canadians Centre ever since. Carolina loves to work with people!

Employment Counsellor
Michael VanDerHerberg

Phone: (705) 743 0882 x 231
Email: michael@nccpeterborough.ca
Languages: English

Michael has been providing employment services at NCC since April 2009. He assists new Canadians looking for work as well as employers hoping to hire new Canadians.

Michael has been involved in various social justice activities, including  cycling around Lake Ontario for Africycle, raising money for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and assisting in the administrative work for refugee sponsorship applications. He finds joy in this work.  Michael wrote the web page www.peterboroughcareers.com as an initial effort to encourage employment searches here in Peterborough.

Settlement Counsellor
Liliana Pérez

Email: liliana@nccpeterborough.ca
Phone: (705) 743 0882 x 234
Languages: English and Spanish

Liliana provides settlement services to new Canadians.

Liliana was born in Mexico and came to Peterborough in 2004. She has a university degree in Business Administration from Mexico. When she moved to Peterborough she worked as a customer representative at AmeriCredit. She was also part of the New Canadian Employment Initiative (NCEI), a program designed to help immigrants obtain Canadian employment experience.

Settlement Counsellor – Cobourg
Luz Ofelia Maya

Phone: 905 377 8100
Email: luz@nccpeterborough.ca

Cobourg Office: 50 Covert St., Cobourg, ON
Languages: Spanish and English.

Luz Ofelia provides settlement services and organizes a variety of programs and activities for new Canadians in the Northumberland region .

Luz Ofelia has a university degree in Business Administration from Colombia. She arrived in Canada in 2001, and graduated from the Toronto School of Business (now Trillium College) in Cobourg in 2003. Luz Ofelia joined the New Canadians Centre in June 2007 as part of the New Canadian Employment Initiative (NCEI), a program designed to help immigrants obtain Canadian employment experience.