It is a pleasure to announce that Harsh Walia has agreed to be the Closing Keynote Speaker at this year’s BC Library Conference!
Walia is a social justice activist and journalist best known for co-founding the Vancouver chapter of No One is Illegal. She is involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice and feminist, anti-racist, and Indigenous solidarity. She is formally trained in law, works with women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and is the author of Undoing Boarder Imperialism. Walia has been named one of the most influential South Asians in BC by The Vancouver Sun, and one of the most popular left wing journalists by The Georgia Straight. She is the winner of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Power of Youth Award. Among other speaking engagements she has made a number of presentations to the United Nations on social and economic justice issues.
For more information about Harsha Walia please see
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/undoing-border-imperialism-with-harsha-walia
https://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/03/interview-harsha-walia/
We look forward to seeing you at the BC Library Conference. In the coming weeks we will publish the full conference program and open conference registration.
Kevin Stranack, BC Library Conference Co-Chair
Chris Middlemass, BC Library Conference Co-Chair
Shannon Stumph, BC Library Conference Coordinator
Annette DeFaveri, BCLA Executive Director