2020

Angela Sterritt Angela Sterritt is an award-winning journalist and author from British Columbia and is a proud member of the Gitxsan Nation. Sterritt has worked as a journalist for close to…

Cherise Seucharan Cherise Seucharan is a journalist at the Star Vancouver where she covers a range of topics including health, civil liberties, policing and youth issues, with a emphasis on in-depth…

 Amanda Aziz Amanda is an immigration and refugee lawyer, and longtime advocate for migrant justice. She is the daughter of immigrants and has supported many families in navigating their immigration…

Byron Cruz Byron arrived in Canada twenty-six years ago, fleeing persecution for resisting inequity and State violence in Guatemala.  Currently he is the organizer and outreach coordinator for the BC…

Jessica Wood Assistant Deputy Minister, Reconciliation Transformation and Strategies Division, Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Province of British Columbia Known as Si Sityaawks – (Woman who creates change) Jessica is from…

vihbor garg vibhor garg grew up in the Robinson-Huron Treaty in Sudbury, Ontario with ancestry from India. He currently has been spitting his time living in Coast Salish territories in Vancouver…

Kasari Govender Kasari Govender took office as B.C.’s first independent Human Rights Commissioner on September 3, 2019. Her role is to lead the promotion and protection of human rights in…

Sharmarke Dubow Sharmarke Dubow is a former refugee who fled civil war in Somalia at the age of 8, and spent 20 years seeking safe haven until Canada offered a home…

Lindsay Borrows Lindsay Keegitah Borrows (Chippewas of Nawash First Nation) is a lawyer and researcher at the Indigenous Law Research Unit at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. Previously…

John Borrows John Borrows B.A., M.A., J.D., LL.M. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School), LL.D. (Hons., Dalhousie, York, Queen’s, Simon Fraser University, Law Society of Ontario), D.H.L, (University of Toronto),…