Anita Khanna

Anita Khanna is National Director of Public Policy and Government Relations for United Way Centraide Canada. She was previously the National Coordinator of Campaign 2000: End Child and Family Poverty in Canada and Director of Social Action and Community Building at Family Service Toronto. 

Throughout her career, Anita has worked with community members, researchers and advocates to secure policy change serving marginalized community members. She has served on the board of the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario, as Executive Director of Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA), as City-Wide Organizer at Social Planning Toronto, as a member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Community Advisory Group. She is currently on the board of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit. 

Anita holds a Master of Social Work from University of Toronto and lives in Ottawa on unceded, unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabe territory with her family.