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BIO
Jasmeet Kaur Sidhu is an
award-winning Canadian journalist, writer and international social activist.
Her written work and social initiatives focus particularly on youth
empowerment, climate change, violence against women and HIV/AIDS.
In 2004 at only 16, Jasmeet
founded the
Peel Environmental Youth Alliance, an umbrella organization working to
implement environmental programs and train environmental leadership in all
220 Peel Region schools.
At 19, she joined the Toronto
Star’s community editorial board becoming their youngest member in
history, by writing several columns on issues such as gendered-violence in
the Indian community, politics and cultural issues.
In the summer of 2008, she spent
four months in the southern African country Namibia, where she exposed the
plight of HIV positive woman being forcibly sterilized in national hospitals
for the country’s largest newspaper the Namibian, and in the
Toronto Star.
In December 2008 and 2009,
Jasmeet was on the ground in Poland and in Denmark for the annual
United Nations Climate Summit reporting for
the Star, which saw more than 90 world leaders and heads of state convene,
and one of the largest civil action protest which she reported from the
midst of.
For her various efforts, Jasmeet
has been the recipient of numerous national and international awards,
including being named by the Globe and Mail and the Women’s Executive
Network as one of
Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women, Glamour Magazine’s
Top 10 College Women in North America, Canada’s national
Top 20 under 20 award, the
Michele Landsberg award
for media activism, and a recent inductee into
Canadian Who’s Who.
Jasmeet is a graduate of the
University of Toronto’s Peace and Conflict Studies program, and currently
resides in Toronto where she blogs for the
Huffington Post
and reports and blogs for the
Toronto Star.
BLOGS
Click here Jasmeet's blog on the Huffington Post.
Click here to read Jasmeet's blog on climate change for the Toronto Star.
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