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STOP GENOCIDE

Gavel Club 2024 Graduation

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Event Theme: Storytelling

Guest Speakers

2024

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Iqra Khaled

MP - Member of Parliament Mississauga – Erin Mills

Founder- Erin Mills Women Council

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As an alumni of RBC’s Top 25 Canadian Immigrants, Wali Shah is a poet and motivational speaker. He’s delivered TED talks, created poetic messages for corporate groups, narrated voice overs for commercials, and spoken at hundreds of schools and colleges across North America. Wali’s message of social change, and his work with empowering a generation of youth, led him to serving his hometown as Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga. Wali closed out President Barack Obama's 2020 visit to Toronto, with a poem written particularly for the event. He's impressed notable figures with his freestyle poetry and performances, including: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Wali’s work inspires thousands to follow his voice, his journey, and his advocacy — Wali Shah is the people’s messenger.

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Paul Wouters

Paul Wouters is an individual with deep understanding and perception and is involved in a multitude of areas. He is a businessman, diving coach, public and motivational speaker and a previous Mount Kilimanjaro climber.

Asiya Khan

An internationally trained lawyer, Asiya has represented private entities as well as individuals with professional legal services in Real Estate, Family Law, Business Law, Immigration and preparation of Wills. Servicing clients in the Greater Toronto Area, through out Ontario and internationally, Asiya has, altogether, twenty-five plus years of active involvement in the field of law. This period also includes nine years of teaching law. She is a proud graduate of The University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

 

She is dedicated and sensitive to the needs of women and children who are faced with family law issues, including but not limited to abuse, either verbal, psychological or physical.

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Gillian Federico

Gillian Federico is a retired Canadian Forces Military Chaplain, Chair of Interfaith Council of Halton, and System Chaplain of Halton Catholic District Schoolboard, bringing in a wealth of experience in promoting interfaith understanding and community collaboration.

Rebecca Miller - Inspector Peel Region Police

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Her role is to contribute to the highest level of safety in our community is through healthy and collaborative social development, prevention, risk intervention and incident response. She will be speaking about her experience regarding all the above factors.

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