Episode 70: The Importance of Gathering Race-Based Hate Data

Iman shares how she was born in Pakistan, raised in Singapore, and then moved to Canada. She voices that at 19 years old, she founded the Canadian Mosaic Foundation in 2009. She notes the importance of learning about and accepting people for who they are. She stands for gathering race-based hate data to understand hate incidents and trends on what racism looks like in Canada.

Iman Bukhari

Iman Bukhari founded the Canadian Cultural Mosaic Foundation at the age of 19. Since then, she has grown the non-profit to become a successful organization working to mitigate racism through advocacy, research and projects. She was recently honoured with Avenue Magazine's 40 Under 40 Award and Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal.

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I respectfully acknowledge that I have the privilege to work on the traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot First Nation tribes of Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Stoney Nakoda First Nations tribes of Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley and the Tsuut’ina First Nation. The City of Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.

This podcast is funded in part by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation