About

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Sadiya Ansari is an award-winning journalist based in London. 

Her work — including essays, features, Q&As and books reviews — has appeared in the Guardian, VICE, Refinery29, the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Reader’s Digest and more.

She has worked as a Professor of Journalism at Centennial College, managing editor of features at Global News, staff editor at Chatelaine and has reported for the Toronto Star, produced TV for CBC News, edited opinion for HuffPost Canada, and covered arts for the Canadian Press.

She is co-founder of the Canadian Journalists of Colour, a 2021 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellow, and a 2023–24 Asper Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia. She has served as a judge for the Digital Publishing Awards and the Amnesty International Canada Media Awards.

Her work has also been supported by the International Center for Journalists, Journalismfund Europe, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. She holds a Masters of Public Administration from Queen’s University and a Masters of Journalism from the University of British Columbia.