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SUMMARY:Asper Centre Immigration & Refugee Law student working group presents Senator Ratna Omidvar
DESCRIPTION:The Asper Centre’s Immigration & Refugee Law Student Working Group is honoured to host Senator Ratna Omidvar for a lunchtime seminar on Wednesday March 7\, 2018 at 12h30. All students are welcome and encouraged to attend. Senator Omidvar will share her personal story of coming to Canada from India\, and she will discuss issues related to inclusion and diversity in Canada\, immigration and refugee law and policy\, the Charter and progressive law reform. She will then take questions from the audience. This will be a great opportunity to get some insight from her inspiring career. \nLight lunch will be provided \nEmail tal.schreier@utoronto.ca for further information. \nAbout Senator Omidvar: \n \nThe Honourable Ratna Omidvar\, C.M.\, O.Ont.\nSenator for Ontario\, The Senate of Canada \nRatna Omidvar is an internationally recognized voice on migration\, diversity and inclusion. In April 2016\, Prime Minister Trudeau appointed Ms. Omidvar to the Senate of Canada as an independent Senator representing Ontario. As a member of the Senate’s Independent Senators Group she holds a leadership position as the Scroll Manager. \nSenator Omidvar is the founding Executive Director and currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Global Diversity Exchange (GDX)\, Ted Rogers School of Management\, Ryerson University. GDX is a think-and-do tank on diversity\, migration and inclusion that connects local experience and ideas with global networks. Previously\, Senator Omidvar was the President of Maytree\, where she played a lead role in local\, national and international efforts to promote the integration of immigrants. \nSenator Omidvar is the current Co-Chair of the Global Future Council on Migration hosted by the World Economic Forum and serves as a Councillor on the World Refugee Council. She is also a director at the Environics Institute\, and Samara Canada. Senator Omidvar is the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council’s Chair Emerita and was formerly the Chair of Lifeline Syria. \nSenator Omidvar is co-author of Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada (2015)\, an Open Book Toronto best book of 2015 and one of the Toronto Star‘s top five good reads from Word on the Street. She is also a contributor to The Harper Factor (2016) and co-editor of Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success (2011). Senator Omidvar received an Honorary Degree\, Doctor of Laws\, York University in 2012. \nSenator Omidvar was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2005 and became a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011\, with both honours recognizing her advocacy work on behalf of immigrants and devotion to reducing inequality in Canada. In 2014\, she received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of German-Canadian relations.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centre-immigration-refugee-law-student-working-group-presents-senator-ratna-omidvar/
LOCATION:J140 Jackman Law Building\, 78 Queen's Park Cres\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C5\, Canada
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