Sandy Hudson is a Jamaican-Canadian political activist, writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
16 Facts About Sandy Hudson
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Sandy Hudson is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement presence in Canada.
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Sandy Hudson grew up in North York and attended high school in Brampton.
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Sandy Hudson attended the University of Toronto, where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science and sociology.
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Sandy Hudson holds a Master of Arts in Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto.
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The lawsuit was settled out-of-court in 2017 with Sandy Hudson agreeing to repay some of the overtime payment.
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Sandy Hudson started the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter after being encouraged by her brother to do something following the police killings of Mike Brown and Jermaine Carby.
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Sandy Hudson has published academic writings in Race and Racialization: Essential Readings, Second Edition and New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance, Volume 2: Resistance and the New Futurity.
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Sandy Hudson has written for NOW Magazine, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, FLARE Magazine and Maclean's Magazine.
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Sandy Hudson is a speaker with the National Speakers Bureau of Canada.
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Sandy Hudson has spoken at universities, labour unions, and institutions across Canada, including the University of Toronto, the Canadian Labour Congress, and the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.
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In 2016, Sandy Hudson was named one of Toronto Life's most influential Torontonians, and in 2017 was named one of Toronto's most inspiring women by Post City Magazine.
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Sandy Hudson was awarded the Lincoln Alexander Award by Osgoode Hall Law School in 2018 and the Emerging Leader award by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 2019.
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Sandy Hudson regularly provides comment in Canadian mainstream media on issues of race.
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Sandy Hudson was featured in Charles Officer's CBC Television documentary The Skin We're In, and in the 2016 and 2020 CBC News' features Being Black in Canada.
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Sandy Hudson's activism has been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, and Complex.