Learn how to use different tools to facilitate storytelling and understanding at the intersections of queer, trans newcomers and refugees with our webinar, Reclaiming LGBTQIA+ Refugee, Newcomer Narratives Through Photovoice.
Facilitated by Sinda Garziz, the session offers participants the opportunity to connect to different research, community engagement methodologies that foster more narrative reclamation and self-autonomy for GLTBQIA+ newcomers and refugees.
Sinda Garziz is an Amazigh, African, Arab immigrant in Canada, a migrant justice activist, a health promoter at the centretown community health Center (CCHC) with an MA degree in social innovation at the St. Paul University. Born and raised in Tunisia, in 2012 she completed her first BA in Psychology at the Human Science Institute of Tunis.
She joined the transnational network No One Is Illegal advocating against borders, visa regime and providing support for migrants and refugees in different countries in South Europe essentially and North Africa.
She participated in stopping different deportations of undocumented migrants in Tunisia and Germany and did advocacy work against the left to die policy in the Mediterranean Sea of migrants and the militarization of European borders. In 2013, she moved to Ottawa to start her second degree in Conflict and Human Right Studies at the university of Ottawa and joined No One Is Illegal – the Ottawa Chapter and since then she has been involved in different committee and campaigns such as the Justice for Deepan Support Committee, Refugee Welcome – Ottawa, The End Immigration Detention Network and The Sanctuary City Network.