Ream Badawi

Accounting Administrator

Ream Badawi, Account Administrator, is very excited to be part of such an inspiring and dynamic team. She joined Speakers’ Spotlight with an honours bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in Criminology from York University. In her spare time, she likes to watch basketball, read, and eat out at great restaurants around the city.

Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity

Why Young Men is not a memoir but a book of ideas that pursues a positive path and offers a counterintuitive, often provocative argument for a sea change in the way we look at young men, and for how they see themselves.

Yassmin's Story

At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian background Muslim woman. With her hijab quickly christened a ‘tea cosy’ there could not be a more unlikely place on earth for a young Muslim woman to want to be. This is the story of how she got there, where she is going, and how she wants the world to change.

Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

Michel is like many other five-year-olds: he has a loving family and spends his days going to school and playing soccer. But in 1993, the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Michel and his family live, is a country in tumult. One afternoon Michel and his friends are kidnapped by rebel militants and forced to become child soldiers. Child Soldier is the sometimes heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring true story of the triumph of the human spirit.