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Lead Like a Woman and Be the Change You Want

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In Lead Like a Woman and Be the Change You Want Nash reflects on how running for office can bring the progressive changes to politics that many women activists fight for and are involved with and how running for office may be the best way to achieve these changes they want to see in the world. Topics discussed include racial justice, Indigenous rights, workers’ rights, environmental sustainability, reducing inequality, economic justice, and more.

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Peggy Nash

Peggy Nash is an advocate for labour rights and social justice in Canadian politics and the labour movement, as a long-time senior negotiator for the CAW (now Unifor). A former president of the federal New Democratic Party, she was a candidate for leader after the untimely death of Jack Layton. A candidate in several federal elections, she served as a Member of Parliament and was named Official Opposition Industry and Finance Critic. Nash is an educator, a frequent media commentator, a founding member of Equal Voice and a co-founder of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Women in the House program.