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Growing up in a multicultural diaspora household in Toronto and seeing the struggles and obstacles faced by her parents over the years, Bunisha Samuels is keen to confront the challenges facing racialized communities in Canada. Samuels’s mother is Tamil and immigrated to Canada in the 1980s during the Sri Lanka Civil War and her father is second-generation Canadian of Jamaican descent.
“My parents placed a huge emphasis on education. For me, it was a way to engage in community work and create accessible and informed spaces,” Samuels says. She knew early on that she wanted to pursue an education in law and advocate for diversity and inclusion in all society, and specifically in the legal system.