Background
She was born in Grenada and grew up in Saint Catharines, Ontario and now lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Joanne Gairy
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Education
She studied Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University, Toronto.
Career
She is a hip-hop poet, and works in Canadian broadcasting. She was formerly a host on Flow 93.5 FM and volunteered for the Ryerson University campus radio station CKLN-FM. She is a music critic on Much Music and is an influential young Caribbean-Canadian woman. The Literature Alive series about Caribbean-Canadian authors (broadcast on Bravo! Television October 6 to December 29, 2005), produced a documentary about Jemeni called Jemeni in the City.
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She defended Nalo Hopkinson"s novel Brown Girl in the Ring for the prestigious Canadian Broadcasting Company Canada Reads book competition in February 2008.
