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Janelle Hinds testifies before the Status of Women Committee
Janelle Hinds is an engineer, entrepreneur, social activist and a women's right advocate. She was the Mississauga Centre delegate to the House of Commons as part of Daughters of the Vote initiative organized by Equal Voice. Janelle testified before the Status of Women Parliamentary Committee on March 7th, 2017
CBC, December 8, 2017Radio/Podcast
URL: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/metro-morning/segment/15099110
Janelle Hinds is a winner of an Everyday Political Citizen Award from Samara Canada.
Biography
Janelle Hinds is the founder and executive director of Helping Hands, a platform helping youth volunteer and get civically engaged while building skills for their future careers. She delivers workshops to newcomers and racialized youth to build leadership skills and more to ensure all youth are active citizens.
While working on her Bachelors of Engineering with majors in both Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, Janelle realized her passion for STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) education, entrepreneurship and diversity issues. She founded HackItMac, a collaborative community to learn about technology and organized deltaHacks, the first student-run hackathon in North America with a focus on enabling positive social change. She has worked on integrating efforts to increase diversity in many of her endeavours and always looking for more opportunities to help others in their efforts. Janelle is an advocate for social innovation and encouraging others to pursue entrepreneurial endeavours.