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Read another good chapter. An Iranian woman’s story includes life under the Shah, the brief fledgling democracy and the fall of democracy in Iran.

Her story moves to Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She graduates, starts grad school and then works as an engineer for the Canadian Government then for a contractor to the government. She then continues school and gets her PhD…

Read about Cindy Blackstock. She had an indigenous father but grew up just off the reservation. She gathered pinecones to get income as a child to save for college at UBC.

She worked as a Social Worker after college and worked with indigenous children. She got her masters in jurisprudence in Child Law and fought for equal Services for indigenous people. She is now a professor at McGill.