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Sydney Piggott is a social impact leader and advocate for gender equity and social justice on a global scale. She is the Senior Social Impact Manager at Shopify, she is also a member of the Equal Futures Network Advisory Committee and Reach Alliance Advisory Committee. She has been a subject matter expert in several international forums including the Commission on the Status of Women, Women Deliver, Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference for Young Parliamentarians and RightsCon. Passionate about supporting young changemakers, Sydney previously held leadership roles at YWCA Canada and Elevate, has worked with several youth initiatives including the Ontario Council for International Cooperation’s Youth Policy-Maker’s Hub and the Online Thinkathon Challenge in partnership with the European Union. Sydney brings an intersectional feminist lens to all of her work informed by her proud Afro-Caribbean heritage. She holds a Master of Global Affairs from the University of Toronto where she founded the Intersectional Feminist Collective and was a Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Scholar.
