Canada’s population is booming thanks to immigration. People from all over the world choose Canada as their adopted home — making it a better place in the process. The Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards have been focused on celebrating these immigrants since its launch 16 years ago.
Presented by Western Union, the Top 25 awards share the inspiring success stories of immigrants and refugees who come from diverse cultures and backgrounds, from coast to coast. This year’s program is also sponsored by COSTI and Windmill Microlending.
The Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2024 were chosen after an extensive nomination, judging, shortlisting and public online voting process. Thank you to our esteemed panel of judges made up of past recipients: Edward Cruz, Archana Medhekar, Hanen Nanaa and Raymond Ngarboui.
In addition to the Top 25, we’re also pleased to introduce the second annual Windmill Microlending Empowerment Award, which recognizes an individual who works above and beyond to empower and support the successful journeys of immigrants and refugees to Canada. This years recipient is Uzma Bhutto, Director of Development and Training at Coalition of Muslim Women in Kitchener-Waterloo
Let’s discover this year’s recipients!
- Ashid Bahl President and founder, For the Love of Children Society of Alberta
- Nisreen Baker Director and screenwriter
- Lilián Cazacu Notary public
- Christopher Chukwunta CEO, International Renewable Energy Systems.
- Noel Cunningham Chef, cookbook author and culinary expert
- Delasi Essien Global nurse consultant, nurse leader and educator
- Gervan Fearon President, George Brown College
- Andrea Gomez CEO, Omy Laboratories
- Crystal Hung CEO, Icon Marketing
- Jaideep Johar Senior Advisor, Marine Safety and Security, Prairie and Northern Region, Transport Canada
- Kelly Kaur (Bedi) Author, writer and speaker
- W. Andy Knight Professor
- Abel Maxwell Artist and entrepreneur
- Shaheen Nanji Executive director, SFU International
- Chukwunonso Nwabufo, MSc, MBA Founder and CEO, OneDrug Inc. and pharmaceutical scientist, University of Toronto
- Gordana Radan CEO, Calgary Catholic Immigration Society
- Farahnaz Rezaei Policy, research and evaluation analyst, Office of Immigration
- Dacious Richardson Youth leader and safe school liaison
- Sheref Sabawy Member of Ontario Provincial Parliament
- Sevtap Savas, PhD Patient advocate and professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
- Sahib Singh Rana Entrepreneur
- Andre S. CEO, Flip & Floss
- Florentine Strzelczyk Provost and vice-president (academic) at Western University
- J Torres Writer
- Nadine Williams Poet, author and arts educator
Read the full bios of this years recipients here: https://lnkd.in/g9DYxuTW
Link: https://canadianimmigrant.ca/canadas-top-25-immigrants