Fonds 10-077 - Helen Fallding fonds

Helen Fallding is a journalist and human rights advocate. She has an honors B.Sc. in biology and an MA in journalism. She was the first coordinator of the Women's Centre at the University of Toronto (1986-1988). She also coordinated the Women's Centre in Victoria, B..C.. She helped the Carcross-Tagish First Nation to negotiate a land claim. She co-founded Yukon's first organization and was founding manager of the University of Manitoba Centre for Human Rights Research in Winnipeg. She worked as a journalist for the Northern Native Broadcasting Yukon and Winnipeg Free Press. She won awards for feminist activism and for journalism such as with Amnesty International Canada and the Sidney Hillman Foundation for her reporting on First Nations drinking water issues.