Career
Groguhé has a master’s in psychology and in France worked in the area of social and occupational integration for youth and adults in distress. Trained in transactional analysis as a therapeutic tool, she also worked as a trainer for individual and group sessions. A community activist, she was notably chair of the Istres equality association.
Drawing no distinction between civic and political engagement, she ran as an independent candidate in 1994’s cantonal election.
She was elected and was a municipal councillor responsible for integration until 2000. They submitted their visa requests in 2003 and immigrated in 2005.
Naturalized in 2010, Sadia Groguhé joined the NDP. She was a candidate for the party in the 2011 federal election in the Montreal riding of Saint-Lambert and defeated the incumbent Bloc Member of Parliament, Josée Beaudin, by receiving 42.65% of the vote. Appointed the NDP’s deputy immigration, citizenship and multiculturalism critic, she was also Deputy House Leader.
Following Jack Layton"s death, she supported Thomas Mulcair in the 2012 NDP leadership race.
