The Renewed Canadian Welcome Book Tour: Saskatoon
Thank you to those who joined us in person and online for the Renewed Canadian Welcome Book Tour: Saskatoon!
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Meet your speakers
Rena Namago is CPJ’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Policy Officer. She has experience working with human rights organizations, advocacy groups, and grassroots organizers in Palestine, Uganda, and Canada. She is particularly passionate about encouraging Christian faith communities to act for peace and justice. She also coauthored a chapter about settler colonialism, Canadian immigration, and grassroots movements for change in the book A Renewed Canadian Welcome.
Kaylee Perez is Global Migration and Resettlement Strategic Initiatives Lead with Mennonite Central Committee Canada, connecting MCC’s global work on migration and as a Sponsorship Agreement Holder in Canada to implement strategic initiatives through knowledge mobilization, advocacy and public engagement. Raised in a Cuban-Colombian-Palestinian family in Canada, she is a passionate refugee advocate who holds an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies and has worked in the refugee (re)settlement sector since 2013. She is co-author of a chapter in A Renewed Canadian Welcome.
Setara Zahedi arrived in Canada as a refugee from the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. With an economics degree, she has a background in finance, accounting, and administration, and was a Senior Payment & Settlement Officer at Afghanistan International Bank. She currently works as a Program Administrative Specialist at the Saskatchewan Open Door Society while pursuing her CPA designation and continuing to grow her career in finance and administration. She is working with MCC Saskatchewan to bring her mother and siblings to Saskatoon.
Willard Metzger comes from a background in church
leadership and in the aid and development sector. He is the Executive Director of Citizens for Public Justice, a progressive nonprofit organization of members who are inspired by faith to act for social and environmental justice in Canadian public policy. CPJ’s mission is to promote public justice in Canada by shaping key public policy debates through research and analysis, publishing, and public dialogue. This includes the publication of A Renewed Canadian Welcome
To support CPJ’s refugee and migrant rights work, buy your copy of A Renewed Canadian Welcome today!
Are you interested in hosting your own CPJ event?
CPJ members are an engaged and connected community of public justice advocates. If you have an idea for an event that you’d like to host in your own community, we encourage you to reach out to us by emailing ac.jpc@jpc.
We can support you with:
- Sep 14 2026
- Expired!
- 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Free
- 600 45 St W, Saskatoon, SK S7L 5W9
Speakers
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Willard MetzgerExecutive Director at Citizens for Public Justice -
Kaylee Perez Global Migration & Resettlement Strategic Initiatives Lead, Mennonite Central Committee
Kaylee PerezGlobal Migration & Resettlement Strategic Initiatives Lead, Mennonite Central CommitteeKaylee Perez, Mennonite Central Committee Global Migration & Resettlement Strategic Initiatives Lead
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Rena NamagoCPJ's Refugee and Migrant Rights Policy OfficerRena Namago is CPJ’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Policy Officer.
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Setara ZahediSaskatchewan Open Door SocietySetara Zahedi, Saskatchewan Open Door Society
