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Melissa Gan (NU Sask Year 2), Ellen Quigley (NU Sask Friend & Advisory Member) and Karen Rooney (NU Sask Year 1) were voted the best three young activists of the year by folks in Saskatoon.

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BEST YOUNG ACTIVIST

MELISSA GAN

Melissa’s work has not gone unnoticed by readers: it includes Room For Improvement Youth Development Inc. (disadvantaged youth at home and abroad), We Are Many (environmental justice) and Next Up (youth leadership). We’re also still thankful to Ellen Quigley, kick-starter of WAM, and Karen Rooney, Ward 8 candidate, contributor to Next Up and delegate to the 2012 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

On October 4, 2012, The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Ontario presented the 2012 David Lewis Lecture:

Generation Now: Four emerging voices on the
Canadian political landscape

Emma Pullman (NUBC5), freelance writer, campaigner with sumofus.org and research director with Leadnow.ca, was one of the presenters of the night – along with:

Brigette dePape, writer and activist also known as the “rogue page” who stood in protest in the Canadian Senate chambers

Ben Powless, Mohawk citizen from Six Nations, co-founder of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition and organizer with Defenders of the Land

Jamie Biggar, founding executive director of Leadnow.ca who coordinates national campaigns designed to get more Canadians engaged in their own democracy’

Photo by Ben Powless

In the news:

David Lewis Lecture spotlights four young Canadians actively changing our politics - Toronto Star