BC Library Conference 2016

Harsha Walia is a South Asian social justice activist, writer and popular educator. For the past fifteen years she has been active in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, and Indigenous solidarity movements. She is formally trained in law, works with women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism. Walia was named one of the most influential South Asians in BC by The Vancouver Sun and one of the most popular left wing journalists by The Georgia Straight. She is the winner of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Power of Youth Award and has been called "one of Canada's most brilliant and effective political organizers" by Naomi Klein. She has presented to the United Nations on a number of issues including immigration and refugee policy, violence against women, and poverty and homelessness.