Who gets to belong , Carol Off, TEDx Toronto

Who decides who belongs in our society For more than three decades, journalist Carol Off has been meeting and interviewing people from around the world for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She explores the fundamental question of belonging, how we see some people as others, and our bigger, human story. Since 2006, Carol Off has been the host of CBC Radios As it Happens, after an extensive journalism career that began as an arts reporter and Ottawa correspondent in the 80s, to an international correspondent in the 90s and 00s. Carol is an awardwinning documentarian and author, wellknown for her work on Canadian military missions that took her around the world, across the Middle East, Balkans and Soviet Union to name a few. Her most recent book, All We Leave Behind: A Reporters Journey into the Lives of Others, is a riveting true story told from Carols experience with a family fleeing the death sentence of a ruthless warlord. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference