TJK One On One with Ilana Landsberg Lewis| EPISODE 16

BA 1988 UC - 2016 Award Recipient Human rights lawyer Ilana Landsberg-Lewis is the co-founder of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, an organization working to turn the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa. She has travelled extensively in developing countries, working directly with more than 300 grassroot organizations on 1,400 initiatives. She spent eight years at the United Nations Development Fund for Women, working to strengthen the United Nations’ implementation of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. She was named a YWCA Woman of Distinction in 2009, and in 2012 she was named one of the Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada. She is the daughter of inaugural UC Alumni of Influence award recipients, humanitarian Stephen Lewis (1959 UC) and journalist Michele Landsberg-Lewis (BA 1962 UC), and the sister of documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis (BA 1988 UC), a fellow honouree this year. For several years now, the Stephen Lewis Foundation (SLF) has been asserting that if only a