SANDY HUDSON is a multidisciplinary creative, writer, and activist with a talent for inspiring others to imagine just futures. She is the author of DEFUND: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for all and co-author of the bestselling anthology Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada.
The founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada, Sandy also co-founded and is Chair of the Board at the Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism, a Black-owned and operated community centre in Toronto, and the Black Legal Action Centre, a specialty legal aid clinic, which provides direct legal services and test case litigation for Black communities in Ontario, Canada. Sandy is Co-Executive Producer of the 8-part CBC documentary series Black Life: A Canadian History, ann official selection of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, and a partner with Bathurst & Sunset Productions.
A dynamic and matter-of-fact communicator, Sandy co-hosts the Sandy & Nora Talk Politics Podcast, and has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, the Toronto Star, CTV News, CP24, Global News, Buzzfeed, and KTLA. Her published work appears in Maclean's Magazine, Chatelaine, FLARE magazine, the Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and the Huffington Post, among others. Tackling a range of social justice issues from anti-Black racism to feminism, Sandy is a natural thought-leader and has a gift for finding the common ground we need to make a better society.
An award-winning writer, Sandy was named one of Maclean’s most powerful people in Canada, Toronto Life’s 50 Most Influential Torontonians, one of Post City Magazine’s Most Inspiring Women, and one of Canada International Black Women’s 100 Black women to watch. Sandy believes that the key to creating justice for the society’s most challenging problems is through cultural change.
A woman of boundless energy and a lust for learning, Sandy holds a JD from the UCLA School of Law and a Master of Arts in Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto.
