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ANDREA GUNRAJ is an essayist, fiction writer, public speaker, and recognized thought-leader regularly interviewed by CBC, Global News, CTV, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and more.
She is a national feminist leader and innovator with an award-winning career in human rights, gender justice, and social justice movements. She is winner of a Grant’s Desi Achievers Award (2023) and has been featured at The Walrus Talks (2022). She was lead of the team presented with a 2023 Governor General’s Innovation Award for the globally celebrated Signal for Help.
Gunraj writes about hidden stories of equity-seeking people and their convergence across social lines and boundaries. She is author of the ReLit shortlisted The Lost Sister (Vagrant Press, 2019) and critically acclaimed The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha (Knopf Canada, 2009). Her short fiction has been published in The Ex-Puritan and FreeFall Magazine and has been longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. Her non-fiction centres on equity, inclusion, and safety. It includes a chapter in Subdivided: Building Inclusion Into the Global City (Coach House Books, 2016) and articles in WIRED, Spacing Magazine, and The Philanthropist Journal.
Gunraj has worked in gender and racial justice, gender-based violence and homelessness prevention, and sexual and reproductive health for over two decades. She hosted the Canadian Women’s Foundation’s Alright, Now What? podcast with a listenership of approximately 4,000 listeners per episode. Gunraj holds a Masters in Criminology from the University of Toronto.
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