Selected Work – Sadiya Ansari

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VC Funds Are Dominated by Men. These Women-Led Firms Are Trying to Change That

Despite evidence that diverse and women-led teams outperform men-led ones, the massive VC funding gap between start-ups founded by men and women has hardly closed in the last few years.
Canadian Business, September 2022

Child Care Revolution: What Canada Can Learn from Germany

Over the past twenty years, huge social and policy changes have significantly remade child care in Germany. In 2008, the Childcare Funding Act was passed, granting parents with children over the age of one the legal right to subsidized daycare spots beginning in 2013. Enshrining the right to child care in law changed the game for parents.
The Walrus, May 2022 cover story

Don’t say ‘privilege’: can the left find better words for talking with people on the right?

Polarizing words may be throwing progressives off course – but research might hold lessons for the left on how to have more meaningful conversations
Guardian, October 2021

Inside the scramble to find culturally competent care for elderly immigrants

Wait times, which can be up to nine years for mainstream LTC homes, are often even longer for culturally specific facilities. In the absence of truly accessible options, immigrant families are making tough choices about care.
Broadview (cover story), June 2021

The Open Border Effect

Germany offers a window into what can happen when a wealthy Western country undergoes a mass migration without assessing the migrants’ potential for the labour market.
Maclean’s, February 2021

Can Canada’s universities survive COVID?

Fewer international students, half-full residences, shuttered food services and empty parking lots add up to devastating revenue losses. And public funding has fallen over the past decade. Universities are in for a reckoning.
Maclean’s, September 2021

The struggle to stay safe from COVID-19 in a refugee camp

The UN is taking measures to protect those in refugee camps from the spread of the coronavirus. But there is little room for social distancing in the camps, where people often have to line up for food and water.
Maclean’s, March 2020

The rise of white nationalism in Germany

For most Germans, the dangers of nationalism are obvious and there is a willingness to vigorously defend democratic values. But there has been an alarming rise in extreme-right views which has already spilled over into mainstream politics. And if Germany is struggling to contain this threat, what does that mean for countries that haven’t been as vigilant?
Maclean’s, October 2019

What Do Borders Really Do?

Lines on a map confer advantages on some and exclude others. This serves political needs, but is it morally just?
University of Toronto magazine, October 2018

What it’s like to be LGBTQ at a Canadian Christian university

The ﬁght against a Trinity Western University covenant effectively banning same-sex relationships on campus was framed in court as religious freedom versus LGBTQ rights. But the issue looks very different on a campus where some LGBTQ students don’t see their sexuality as being in conflict with their faith.
Maclean’s, October 2018

‘Everybody fits in’: inside the Canadian cities where minorities are the majority

Canada’s official policy of multiculturalism states that other cultures are valuable as long as newcomers are willing to integrate into “mainstream” Canadian culture. But what does mainstream look like in cities where the primary culture is neither English nor French? And, as Canada’s population is projected to be nearly 30 percent foreign-born by 2036, what does integration in these cities mean?
Guardian, September 2018

A Year After The Quebec Mosque Shooting, Has Anything Changed?

The deaths of six men last year revealed a terrifying strain of Islamophobia in the city — one the province has failed to confront. In the wake of the violence, Yousseff and Mulka Cherif wonder if they are better off leaving Quebec altogether.
Chatelaine, January 2018

Male Infertility Is On The Rise — So Why Aren’t We Talking About It?

Sperm counts have been in a free fall in Western countries over the last 10 years, yet infertility is still largely seen as a women’s issue.
Chatelaine, May 2018

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