page_title: Shadya Yasin
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Shadya Yasin / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Somali activist Shadya Yasin energizes the crowd at a pro-Farmajo rally in Toronto (June 2011).
context_page_description: Shadya Yasin is a Somali social activist, poet and teacher.
context_section_description: Professionally, Shadya is a certified teacher.
  Since 2008, she has served as the network coordinator for the York Youth Coalition, a Toronto-based NGO. In this capacity, Yasin manages 18 youth service agencies in the Weston-Mt. Dennis area. She is also on the Ontario Premier's Council on Youth Opportunities.
  In 2011, Yasin along with other Somali-Canadians led demonstrations in support of Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmajo), who had been forced to resign in June over the Kampala Accord. She concurrently helped organize a youth walk to Ottawa to raise awareness of that year's severe drought in Somalia.
  Additionally, Yasin has connected Toronto youth with First Nations communities at Moose Deer Point, located close to Sudbury. Within the framework of the Creating Global Citizens initiative, she has traveled with at-risk urban youngsters to Tanzania in order to inculcate youth volunteerism. In December 2012, Yasin also helped plan the yearly West Won Festival showcase in Weston-Mount.
  Besides teaching and activism, Yasin is a published poet and spoken word artist, having performed in a number of venues. As part of her course requirements in York University's CAP program, she played a young Hawa Jibril in Bridge of One Hair, an original musical production inspired by the veteran Somali poet Jibril's verse and life. Yasin has also worked with many arts projects aimed at children and adolescents under the auspices of the AGO.
caption: Shadya Yasin energizes the crowd at a pro-Farmajo rally in Toronto (June 2011).
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