{"id":2144,"date":"2022-07-13T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:26","slug":"zahra-baptiste-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2022\/zahra-baptiste-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Zahra Baptiste, Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Zahra is a nonprofit communications professional living in Toronto. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Zahra combines a love of storytelling with a passion for global social justice. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music, with a Minor in Anthropology, from McGill University, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies from Concordia University, in Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently the Communications Manager at Canadian Feed The Children, Zahra has held roles at the Ontario Council for International Cooperation and the Tyndale St-Georges Community Centre. She has served on various boards, including for local daycares and with the McGill Black Alumni Association, serving as Vice-President of Communications. She\u2019s a member of the Public Engagement Working Group at the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her focus is on ethical communications in the international cooperation sector, with specific interests in anti-racist, decolonial and ethical fundraising communications and public engagement. She hopes that through the MPNL program she can contribute to the development of best practices in decolonial and anti-racist communications for the international cooperation sector, building on the work of other researchers in this field, including the authors of the Unfunded<\/a> report, an MPNL publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Zahra was one of four recipients of the MPNL Award for Black Emerging Fundraising Professionals<\/a>, and in 2024, she received the Simone Joyaux Memorial Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zahra is a nonprofit communications professional living in Toronto. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Zahra combines a love of storytelling with a passion for global social justice. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music, with a Minor in Anthropology, from McGill University, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies from Concordia University, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[45,168,47,46,214,213,48,221,49,51,50,52,53,54,209,220,217,218,55,56,190,57,191,58,59,60,62,61,63,64,65,66,216,67,68,222,69,215,219,70,71,74,73,75,76,77,72,78,79,80,82,83,84,17,81,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,18,93,95,212,94,19,97,96,210,211,98,99,100,101,208],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students-2022","tag-45","tag-168","tag-academia","tag-academic","tag-anthropology","tag-bachelor-of-arts-in-music","tag-canada","tag-canadian-feed-the-children","tag-carleton","tag-charitable","tag-charities","tag-charity","tag-civic","tag-civil-society","tag-communications","tag-communications-manager","tag-communications-studies","tag-concordia-university","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-diploma","tag-donation","tag-dpnl","tag-endowment","tag-federal","tag-foundation","tag-fund-raising","tag-fundraising","tag-giving","tag-global","tag-government","tag-graduate","tag-graduate-diploma","tag-international","tag-leadership","tag-master-of-philanthropy-and-nonprofit-leadership","tag-masters","tag-mcgill-university","tag-montreal","tag-mpnl","tag-ngo","tag-non-governmental","tag-non-profit","tag-nonprofit","tag-nonprofits","tag-not-for-profit","tag-npo","tag-organization","tag-organizations","tag-pandemic","tag-panl","tag-perspectives","tag-philanthropic","tag-philanthropy","tag-pnl","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-program","tag-public","tag-regulation","tag-report","tag-research","tag-resources","tag-school-of-public-policy-and-administration","tag-sector","tag-social-impact","tag-social-justice","tag-society","tag-sppa","tag-studies","tag-study","tag-toronto","tag-trinidad-and-tobago","tag-univ","tag-university","tag-voluntary","tag-world","tag-zahra-baptiste"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}