Personal Narrative: My Experience At Sunny View Public School

At the age of thirteen, I moved from Tanzania to start a new life with my parents, who were fortunate enough to gather the courage to leave their home country and move to Canada. Their main objective was to provide a better future for my sister and I. Growing up in Tanzania, I witnessed the injustices imposed upon the rural members of society. What troubled me the most was that I saw no progress. The gap between the rich and poor was so evident that it became a norm, a way of life. Although I realized that this was wrong, I never truly understood the complexity of these issues. When I moved to Canada, I saw the importance of practicing democratic values of equality and commitment to social justice, as well as the impact these features have
Through this experience, I learned the importance of fostering and advocating for access­ibility in order to provide equal educational opport­unities for all students. My experience at Sunny View widened my unders­tanding of being able to use a legal profession to provide services to individuals with disabi­lities. Both my practicum experiences strengthen my commitment to advocating for individuals with multiple except­ionalities to ensure that all persons are treated
I plan to continue my engagement with such initiatives with the intention to raise awareness on the maintenance and development of social justice. By apprec­iating my role as an educational facilitator, I chose to pursue a Master's of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. However, while working towards completing my Master's degree, I realized that I wanted to make a larger contri­bution on a societal level to further advocate for social justice. As such, my experiences in education influenced my desire to utilize a legal education as an instrument for social