Trey Anthony: Award-Winning Canadian PlaywrightTrey Anthony is a pioneer in Canadian entertainment. Best-known for the hit theatre and TV production, ‘Da Kink in my Hair, she also worked as a television producer for the Women’s Television Network (now W) and a writer for the Comedy Network. She is the first Black Canadian woman to write and produce a television show on a major prime time Canadian network. As the Executive Producer of the Urban Women’s Comedy Festival, ‘Da girl, sho is funny! she co-wrote I Am Not a Dinner Mint, The Crap Women Swallow to Stay in a Relationship, which debuted in 2006 to sold-out audiences.

A mentor and role model, Anthony regularly visits schools to inspire youth. A volunteer with Black Queer Youth Group, she speaks to students about body image and other issues facing female adolescents, and gives away tickets to her shows to youth and women in shelters.

In 2009, Anthony founded the Trey Anthony@One Centre in Toronto, a women-focused, creative wellness facility. Here she offers classes on creative writing, well-being and spirituality, and hopes to help change the way Canadian women view themselves.

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Dr. Samantha Nutt: Founder of War Child CanadaDr. Samantha Nutt is a medical doctor with more than 15 years of experience working in war zones. Over the course of her career and as the Founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada, Nutt has spearheaded efforts to provide direct humanitarian support and long term programming to war-affected women and their families, and to promote greater awareness in Canada concerning the rights of women and children everywhere.

In 2010, The Globe and Mail named her as one of 25 Transformational Canadians and also profiled her as a nominee for Nation Builder of the Year. Prior to this she was honoured as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

Speaking topics such as: When Women Lead: Prescription for Change in the 21st Century, allow Nutt to elaborate on the universality of the feminine experience – childhood, mother-hood, marriage, and sex – that transcends culture and language, and brings women together in a way that isn’t fully appreciated.

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Stephen Lewis: Celebrated Humanitarian & Advocate for Women’s RightsStephen Lewis’ work with the United Nations spanned more than two decades. He was the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from 2001 - 2006. Currently, he serves as the board chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to turning the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa, while addressing women’s rights issues, specifically. A top initiative headed by Lewis, the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign seeks to raise awareness and mobilize support in Canada for Africa’s grandmothers. Since the launch, more than 240 groups of Canadian grandmothers have taken up the call to action and the campaign has raised over $10 million. According to Lewis, “the struggle for gender equality has become the most important struggle on the planet; the continuing marginalisation of 52 per cent of the world’s population is simply unacceptable.”

Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell: 19th Prime Minister of CanadaThe Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell rose to fame as our country’s first female Prime Minister and one of the youngest Prime Minister’s worldwide. Since her time as leader, she has traveled internationally to represent Canada and strengthen democracy and women’s leadership around the world. Campbell has held the chair of the Council of Women World Leaders, a network of women who hold or have held the office of President or Prime Minister. She also served as president of the International Women’s Forum, a global organization of women of significant and diverse achievement. Breaking barriers for women throughout her deep and lengthy political career, Campbell knows what it’s like to make it in a man’s world, and is widely regarded as one of the foremost thinkers and speakers on gender issues.

Judy Rebick: Social Justice Expert & Women’s Rights ActivistA journalist by trade and activist by nature, Judy Rebick is leading the charge for social justice and women’s rights through print, broadcast and in person. She held the Sam Gindin Chair in Social Democracy at Ryerson University, is former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and lends her considerable expertise to Fair Vote Canada and Alternatives, a Quebec-based NGO. Rebick’s most requested topics discuss equality issues for women, social equity and women in leadership. She has designed and implemented employment equity programs, anti-racist training and leadership seminars using effective, real-world strategies to the table that will have a positive impact on your audience.

Sally Armstrong: Human Rights Activist & Documentary Filmmaker In 2010 Sally Armstrong was appointed to the International Women’s Commission at the United Nations. She was also editor-in-chief of Homemaker’s magazine from 1988 to 1999 and editor-at-large of Chatelaine magazine from 1999 - 2004. While working as a journalist, Armstrong has covered stories about women and girls in zones of conflict all over the world. From Bosnia and Somalia to Rwanda and Afghanistan, her eyewitness reports have earned her such awards as the YWCA of Toronto Women of Distinction Award in Communications, the Achievement Award for Human Rights for Women, and the prestigious Order of Canada in 1998. In 2010, she was named one of Canadian Living Magazine’s 35 Amazing Canadian Women. Today Armstrong shares her unique experiences with others in the hopes of inspiring positive change for women.

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Nazanin Afshin-Jam: Entertainer, Human Rights Activist, and PhilanthropistNazanin Afshin-Jam has devoted her life to protecting women and children from human rights abuses, especially in her native Iran. This former Miss World Canada is President and co-founder of “Stop Child Executions”. This organization began after Afshin-Jam successfully ran an international campaign to save the life of her namesake, Nazanin Fatehi, a juvenile sentenced to death in Iran for stabbing in self defense one of three assailants who tried to rape her. Afshin-Jam continues to address women’s rights abuses in China, Burma, Darfur and other countries with tyrannical regimes. Through her speeches and music, she hopes to continue being a “voice for the voiceless” and deliver her messages of freedom, peace and love worldwide.