2020

Angela Sterrit

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…

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Cherise Seucharan

Cherise Seucharan Cherise Seucharan is a reporter at Canadaland Media and an executive member of Canadian Journalists of Colour. Before, she was a reporter at the Globe and Mail and…

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Amanda Aziz

 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…

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Byron Cruz

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…

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Jessica Wood

Jessica Wood Si Sityaawks – (Woman who creates change) is from the Gitxsan and Tsimshian First Nations with extended roots among the Tahltan and Nisga’a Nations. Currently serving as Associate…

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vihbor garg

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…

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Kasari Govender

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 British…

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Sharmarke Dubow

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…

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Lindsay Borrows

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…

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John Borrows

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),…

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