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Brannavy Jeyasundaram

Brannavy Jeyasundaram is an Eelam Tamil writer with an interest in exploring diasporic memory and place-making in Toronto. Presently, she works as the Operations Officer at People For Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) and a Researcher and Curator at the Toronto Ward Museum. Her writing can be found in NOW Toronto, The Jacobin, The Dance Current and Tamil Guardian. Brannavy is a 2020 Local Journalism Fellow.

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Feature by Brannavy Jeyasundaram

How to Feed the Future

Canada is the only G7 country without a national school food program—instead, we have piecemeal provincially-funded programs that are leaving children behind.

Feature by Brannavy Jeyasundaram

Community Ambassadors Are the Link to Toronto’s Unvaccinated Populations

As vaccination rates plateau, a new army of outreach workers is canvassing pockets of the city missed by the initial rollout.

Feature by Brannavy Jeyasundaram

What’s Plaguing Toronto’s Ethnic Press?

In a city of immigrants, non-English language newspapers play a critical role in the fight against COVID-19. Can they survive the pandemic?

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