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Be the Change You Want to See: A Q&A with Sheherazade Hirji

2017-12-19T17:09:05+00:00April 21, 2016|Empowering girls, Gender-based violence, Women in media, Women’s poverty|

Family with GEN1 symbolThis interview was originally published by International Innovation.

Sheherazade Hirji, President and CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, wants to put the organisation out of business – envisioning a generation of empowered women, gender equality and an end to sexual violence.

Having dedicated your career to the philanthropic sector, you are committed to helping women and girls in Canada. What led you to your present role at the Foundation?

I actually qualified as a solicitor in England first, so I’m a ‘recovering’ lawyer. I came to Canada in the 1980s and qualified again, got called to the Bar and started to work in the area of philanthropy. I very quickly found that the work I was doing with foundations resonated with my own personal values much more than law.

A Bold Vision

2017-12-19T18:57:25+00:00September 24, 2014|Uncategorized|

This week, twenty-three women will gather at the Bold Vision conference in Charlottetown. This event commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference, where twenty-three men gathered to discuss the political union that would eventually become Canada. The Bold Vision event presents a female-oriented vision for Canada, looking ahead 150 years into the future.

The following essay was written by the Canadian Women’s Foundation to express the Foundation's own Bold Vision for the year 2164.