Author Biography: Megan Ainscow

Megan Ainscow has longed to do the kind of journalism that can make an impact in communities where the voices of the marginalized need to be heard. Megan lives and breathes media. She worked for three years in FM radio. She has freelanced for several university and weekly community papers. She has interned at Global Television in Montreal. While on exchange in Paris, Megan spent six months working with Peter O’Neil, European Correspondent for Postmedia and following that spent nine months working at a financial newswire in Montreal as a reporter and broadcaster. To satisfy her desire to engage in some kind of human rights advocacy, since November 2009 Megan has been a volunteer on the communications subcommittee for Human Rights Watch. Since beginning her journalism degree at Concordia University in 2004 she has been following Journalists for Human Rights and decided this year the time had come to shake things up and apply for an overseas position. Megan is heading off to Tamale, Ghana located in the remote Northern Region to work at Diamond FM.