Donna Nebenzahl

Donna Nebenzahl left British Guiana -- now known as Guyana -- at the age of 10 and grew up in Montreal. She studied at McGill University and has been a reporter and editor at several major Canadian dailies as well as a freelance magazine writer. Se is an adjunct professor of journalism at Concordia University, and the author of Womankind: Faces of Change Around the World. She conceived and wrote a documentary film about Elsie Reford, Twice Upon a Garden, as well as the environmental blog Earthbound. She and her husband live in Montreal and Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia.