Occupation:Senator
Country of Origin:Uganda
City:Vancouver, B.C.
Mobina Jaffer arrived in Vancouver in 1972 after she and her family were exiled from Uganda with “nothing but the clothes on our backs.” Today, she represents British Columbia in the Senate of Canada. She was the first Muslim senator, the first African-born senator and the first senator of South Asian descent.
“I am grateful to my father, who was a member of parliament in Uganda, for nurturing the interest in politics that I developed as a young woman,” she says. “The skills that I acquired and the lessons I learned at my father’s side are ones that I still carry with me today.”
Jaffer has made the celebration of diversity and the defence of human rights her life’s work.
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