Emilie Nicolas is a columnist with Le Devoir and The Montreal Gazette, the host of theDétourspodcast onCanadaland, and a regular analyst and commentator for CBC and Radio-Canada. Emilie has been published in several journals,magazinesand newspapers, both in French and English. Most recently, she won the Quebec’s cultural magazine (SODEP) 2020 Excellence Award for Best Essay, for a piece in the Liberté magazine.
Emilie has contributed to various organizations in Canada and internationally. She currently sits on the board of Informed Opinions, a non-profit organization working towards more gender equality in Canadian media. She was formerly a member of the board of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, a crown corporation dedicated to the elimination of racism.
An active bridge-builder, Emilie is a co-founder of Québecinclusif(2013), a movement that united citizens against racism and social exclusion. She alsoinitiateda coalition campaigning for equality and against systemic racism in Quebec (2016).
Emilie is the recipient of a Harry Jerome Award for leadership along with a Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case.She completed the Action Canada Fellowship (2015) as well as the Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Fellowship (2019).