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Paris Semansky

Co-Executive Director, People for Education

Paris Semansky is co-Executive Director of People for Education. Previously, Paris was People for Education’s Director of Systems Change, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at CAMH, and worked for almost a decade in provincial politics as a senior policy and communiations advisor. A born and raised Londoner (Ontario), Paris studied social justice and peace at King’s University College at Western University and obtained her Master of Communications Management (MCM) at McMaster University as a working mom during the pandemic. Paris is the mother to two daughers, and lives in Toronto’s east end with her husband, Mike.

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