Alisha Esmail has always strived to make a difference in the world.
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With a passion for people, Esmail says she remembers being drawn to global issues as a child when she learned other parts of the world didn’t have the food security we take for granted in Canada.
“I, as a kid, would hear stories that the rest of the world wasn’t like our world in Canada, that lots of people didn’t have food or clean water … That would keep me up at night. That was just so unfair and so unjust to me,” she recalls.
This passion led her to work on international development projects with non-profit organizations, where she got to know the needs of the people in countries like Haiti, South Africa, Nepal, Jordan and Panama.
Through that work — and…
