Join us as we discuss redefining leadership with Harsha Walia.

In this talk, Harsha Walia, a leader in migrant justice and movement rights, will explore topics of community, organizing, leadership and justice as part of Platform’s Redefining Leadership Fellowship. Harsha’s background in activism, and longstanding history in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements for over a decade serves as an example to us all, and we’re excited to learn from her work, writings, and teaching in this session.

TICKETS TO THIS EVENT ARE FREE AND THE FIRST 100 TO SIGN UP WILL RECEIVE A HARD COPY OF HARSHA’S BOOK, BORDER AND RULE: GLOBAL MIGRATION, CAPITALISM, AND THE RISE OF RACIST NATIONALISM (2021).

Please note that we only ship within what is currently known as Canada.

Live English closed-captioning is available at this event

HARSHA WALIA is an organizer and writer based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories. She has organized in migrant justice, abolitionist, anti-imperialist, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements for over two decades. Harsha is the author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021) and Undoing Border Imperialism (2013); and the co-author of Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2019) and Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration (2015). She believes in overgrowing the logic of the state and racial capitalism.

PLATFORM is a youth-led nonprofit organization building leadership capacity in Black, Indigenous, and Racialized young women and gender-diverse youth to advance gender equity and justice. Since 2017, we have built civic leadership capacity among 1500+ diverse young leaders across what is now called Canada and engaged with 100+ civic leaders, elected officials, and community organizers to create inclusive and safe(r) civic spaces for young women and gender-diverse youth.

THE REDEFINING LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP brings together a cohort of five racialized young women and gender diverse youth leaders from across what is currently known as Canada and who have prior experience in advocacy and leadership. The fellowship aims to support fellows by amplifying their impact, expanding their leadership, and giving them tools, networks, and best practices so they can continue to support their communities in a meaningful way.

This event has been made possible through the sponsorship of VanCity Community Investment Bank, the only Canadian bank exclusively focused on partnerships with organizations that drive social, economic and environmental change.

Email arezoo@theplatform.ca for more information.

All donations will go toward our REDEFINING LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP.