Saima Jamal

Saima Jamal is a well-known and awarded Calgary based community organizer and helper, social activist, humanitarian, interfaith promoter and Tedx featured public speaker. Her work focuses on refugee and immigrant issues, activism, anti-racism, religious discrimination and women’s issues. As the current Co-Founder of the volunteer run Calgary Immigrant Support Society and past National Program Manager of Jumpstart Refugee Talent and Program Manager of the Consortium for Peace Studies at the University of Calgary, Saima uses a unique multi-faith, multi-cultural and multi-community approach to mobilize Canadians to make our city, our country the most welcoming place for newcomers to live and thrive, strengthen the social fabric of our society and to make our world a more peaceful, compassionate and more understanding place to live. Saima’s years of peacebuilding efforts and compassionate work as a peace activist included program development that educated Calgarians on different ways Canadians grappled with local and national calamities, conflict resolution domestically and internationally and covered the fight against deviant extremist groups, curbing radicalization, and finding reconciliation for religious conflicts and sectarian issues.