Meet Our Youth Team
Dynamic, committed and energized, youth team volunteers from universities and high schools across Canada and two volunteers from Paris, contributed their time and passion, over 24 months, to the vision and execution of this book.
Sneha Wadhwani
Sneha is a co-chair for team III. Sneha has taken leadership of the coding for team III, recruiting and working with more team members to distill 75 interviews into themes for the book.
Edward Tian
Edward is a co-chair for team III. He takes lead in securing the book interviews, starting from Elizabeth May's on a ferry boat to phoning Deb Grey on a motor bike. Edward works alongside Dr. McGregor to ensure a diversity of backgrounds and experiences from our interviews.
Kate Schneider
Kate has worked as a member of the transcription team. Transforming Dr. McGregor's 75 interviews of female politicians from across Canada into text to distill and analyze into themes for the book.
David de Paiva
David is a political science major at the University of Toronto. He has done an analysis at both federal and provincial level across Canada and in the Senate, to find selected examples of policies and legislation addressing gender.
Marium Nur Vahed
Marium focused on the theme "Feminism" - reaching into the responses of the interviewees and drawing out the varied perspectives towards feminism, and its place in the political landscape.
Sarah Rana
Sarah researched and compiled together initiatives provincially, nationally, and internationally that work towards or maintain key mechanisms to educate and encourage women into politics.
Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program - Presentation of On Ramp Book Research
Parliament Hill Book Preview - Betsy & Youth Team members Nov 2017
Volunteer Team Women in Politics Book at Trent Gym Cafe