Amie Tsang
Class of 2021
Amie Tsang is an Occupational Therapist whose career is dedicated to working in partnership with presently and historically marginalized populations, centring narratives of personal resilience in systemic oppression. She has frontline experience in the homeless sector and is most recently the Health Equity Facilitator at CMHA-Toronto. Amie seeks to apply a critical, anti-oppressive lens to her work, whilst always acknowledging there is more to learn and unlearn. She holds Adjunct Lecturer status in the Department of OS&OT at the University of Toronto and serves on the board of directors at HomesFirst Society. She is this year’s recipient of the Maytree Scholarship to support coverage of poverty in the context of Canadian human rights.
Finding shelter space like running an ‘obstacle course’
Policing and evicting people living in encampments will not solve homelessness in Canada
‘I need to do something about this’: Virtual care fills need in treatment of eating disorders
COVID-19 has exacerbated eating problems for world’s youth
‘Ripe for burnout:’ Pandemic adds to ‘longstanding’ challenges for mental-health workers
