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FINALREPORT

SIX DEGREES JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP 2016

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“Young minds fuelled by ambition andthe desire to participate will get their chance in our Junior Fellowship Program.”

THE RT. HON. ADRIENNE CLARKSON AND JOHN RALSTON SAUL, CO-CHAIRS AND CO-FOUNDERS OF THE ICC

<< Nos programmes pour les jeunes, en particulier nos jeunes Fellows, sont essentiel pour l’évolution de 6 Degrés. Nous comptons sur leur enthousiasme, leur perspective et leur courage pour engager la conversation et créer des projets nous indiquant ce qu’il faut garder à l’esprit et ce qui est à venir. >>

CHARLIE FORAN, CEO

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SUMMARY OF 6 DEGREES JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMIn 2016, 6 Degrees and the Institute for Canadian Citizenship launched the 6 Degrees Junior Fellowship, creating a unique opportunity for young leaders from across the globe to make a change in their own community through the creation and implementation of projects on inclusion and citizenship. With an inaugural cohort of ten Junior Fellows from five countries, these outstanding young people were chosen based on their dedication to fostering inclusion and building citizenship in their respective communities. To kick off their fellowship, the Junior Fellows were invited to participate in the inaugural 6 Degrees Citizen Space, hosted in Toronto, Canada in September 2016. Over the eight-month duration of their fellowship, the Junior Fellows were paired with experienced mentors and provided with project seed funding, all with the goal of leveraging and amplifying the impact of their projects. As we look ahead to 6 Degrees Citizen Space 2017, we are excited to build on the success of the inaugural cohort by expanding the program with new fellows and new projects. Reflecting on the strengths exhibited by the 2016 program, the incoming cohort of 6 Degrees Junior Fellows will benefit from:

Developing their leadership capacity in an environment that welcomes risk-taking, vulnerability, and innovation;

Celebrating the necessity for, and urgency of, inclusion in an unsettled age;

Workshopping community projects under the guidance of 6 Degrees staff;

Engaging with experienced mentors who are committed to equipping the next generation of leaders with the perspective necessary for success;

Building their global professional network with like-minded peers who share their dedication to inclusion and citizenship; and

Participating in 6 Degrees Citizen Space 2017, a global hub connecting thinkers and doers who are committed to driving the global conversation on inclusion and citizenship. More than anything else, the Junior Fellows are both the legacy and the future of 6 Degrees. They represent the breadcrumbs that each 6 Degrees Citizen Space will leave behind. They embody the optimism that inclusion needs. By identifying, cultivating, and channeling the dynamism of the Junior Fellows, we are amplifying 6 Degrees beyond our borders year-round.

Diversity is a reality. Inclusion is a choice. We choose inclusion.

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JUNIOR FELLOW

FlorenciaAlejandre

"Going through 6 Degrees made me take the conversation over inclusion and citizenship to every aspect of my life: family dinner, friends’ reunions, and working spaces were filled by my views and excitement after three days of intense sharing in Toronto and sparked passionate discussion.

Access was real and easy: everyone was willing to get to know and listen to everyone else, almost regardless – or, what’s better, precisely because of – their different background."

JUNIOR FELLOW

MunazaGulzar

"Being part of the sessions was continually exhilarating and while I enjoyed the interactive dialogue, and the areas of discussion touched on – I found most valuable the opportunity to interact and share thoughts with and learn from fellow participants: be it the fellows, advisors, organizers, framers, and speakers."

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BRONWYNBRAGGis a scholar, researcher and facilitator based in western Canada. Her research draws on a participatory anti-oppression framework to explore questions of inclusion and belonging in Canadian cities.

Bronwyn has extensive experience working in a community-based capacity with racialized immigrant communities in Calgary, Alberta. Her research has explored the educational experiences of refugee youth, the employment outcomes of immigrant women, the impact of restrictive family reunification policies on immigrant families and the challenges facing temporary foreign workers and caregivers in Alberta and Ontario. Bronwyn’s current research focuses on the integration trajectories of Syrian refugee families in Vancouver and Calgary.

Bronwyn is a recipient of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council grant. She has a Master’s in Sociology and Equity Studies from the University of Toronto and is currently working on her PhD in human geography at the University of British Columbia.

Bronwyn’s initiative explored the early resettlement experiences of Syrian refugees in Calgary and Vancouver.

FLORENCIA ALEJANDRE seeks to understand and design public interventions that are truly empowering and transformative. Right now, she is exploring how participatory forms of service provision can expand citizenship to informal communities for her Master’s thesis. Before starting the MSc Social Policy and Development at the London School of Economics, Florencia studied International Relations and Public Policy in Argentina. She has worked with local governments in the evaluation of programs related to women’s health and the inclusion of informal entrepreneurs; and with NGOs in education projects. Other passions include shower singing, free-style dancing, and chocolate

–  in all its forms.

Florencia’s initiative was to generate a participatory action research proposal to understand the meaning and needs of citizenship in informal recyclers of Buenos Aires and co-design with them local and empowering waste management policies.

ANDREAANDERSENis an Inuk female from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut. She is currently in the process of getting her licence to practice physiotherapy.

She is the youth executive for the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC). NAFC is a grassroots movement supporting urban Indigenous peoples of Canada. The NAFC’s doors are open to all peoples of this country with a focus on youth, elders, prevention of violence against Indigenous women, and culture revitalization.

Andrea’s initiative was to promote youth engagement and language revitalization in Inuit communities across Labrador.

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TARAS DZYUBANSKYYholds a B.A. in Philosophy and has studied at various papal institutes in the Vatican. In 2012, through the prestigious Russell Berrie Fellowship, he obtained his PhD in Theology and Interreligious Dialogue. Since October 2012, Taras has been working as an adviser to the mayor of Lviv for religious issues. In May 2013, he inaugurated an interfaith center “Libertas.” He is now an adviser to the President of the Lviv Chamber of Commerce and Industry on social issues.

Since the beginning of the armed conflicts in the east of Ukraine, Dzyubanskyy initiated a number of programs specifically related to the issue of migrants and internal refugees. In the fall of 2015, he participated in the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Fellowship in Intercultural and Dialogue, visiting Middle East and North African countries. The author of three books, Taras is strongly committedto promoting interfaith and intercultural dialogue.

Taras’ initiative promoted social inclusion and responsible citizenship by preparing young professionals in CSR to hire internal refugees and migrants.

GRACIA DYER JALEA is the founder of the Toronto Ward Museum, a non-profit dedicated to telling stories of migration to Toronto. The museum seeks to create space for local residents to co-create, lead and deliver the museum’s programming. To date the museum has 15 institutional partners and has recently launched a series of pilot projects.

Prior to the Museum, Gracia was the Programming Director for Friends of the Pan Am Path, working on the city’s largest Host City Showcase project for the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. Prior to the Games, she worked for the Montreal Life Stories Project, and co-authored Mapping Memories: Participatory Media, Placed-Based Stories and Refugee Youth. In 2012 she produced the project’s Rencontres, a series of 48 events that took place throughout the city to disseminate the life stories of newcomers and refugees to Quebec.

Gracia holds a BA in Cultural Studies and World Religions from McGill University and a MA in Media Studies from Concordia University.

Gracia’s initiative, Pathways to Toronto, is an existing digital platform that shares stories of migration to Toronto and asks users to contemplate the impact of movement on identity, citizenship and belonging.

ASADCHISHTIis an inventor at Chairs and Tables where they build (metaphorical) furniture around themes such as happiness, home, health, and history. He is also a first-generation immigrant who finds his life inextricably linked to navigating topics such as inclusion, migration, identity, culture, belonging, and citizenship.

Asad’s initiative was to build a digital map of Canada to add some context to the where and when of this place and time we call home.

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MUNAZAGULZARis an educator and aspiring educational consultant. She completed her undergraduate degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of Toronto, ON in 2013. She has worked in the areas of library services, high school college guidance, graduate school student coordination and most recently, teaching at the international school in Karachi. Most notably, she spearheaded a student-exchange program between the Guanghua School of Management, China and the Karachi School of Business & Leadership, allowing students to proceed on a unique two-week leadership program in Beijing in June, 2015. In 2015, she founded Boundless Education: Consultancy, which offers advising to students and aims to address education challenges in the local community. She is passionate about social development, loves cooking and travelling and comes from Karachi, Pakistan.

Munaza’s initiative was to build and sustain a public-access library in Karachi, which also serves as a community space to foster social ties and a hub for workshops, programs, trainings in literacy, awareness and leadership.

MICHELLEHASSLERarrived in Canada on November 11, 2011, straight from Davao City, Philippines. She joined her Canadian husband Steve and his two children Davin and Kaylee. Michelle lives in a small town called Birch Hills, Saskatchewan, and travels each day to Prince Albert for work. She is the Assistant Executive Director of the Prince Albert Multicultural Council, a non-profit organization that helps and assists with settlement support and free English classes for newcomers and refugees in the Prince Albert area.

Michelle enjoys the Saskatchewan prairie and loves the outdoors. She is happy to be a member of a family that loves summer camping, ice fishing, hunting, trapping, winter sports, and summer fishing.

Michelle’s initiative was the Tapestrama Cultural Festival, a two-day event full of cultural food, dance, music, activities, customs and traditions.

TESSICATRUONGis a sustainability activist, a serial changemaker, and an engagement innovator. In high school, she kick-started Vancouver Youth4Tap, a city-wide movement to promote tap over bottled water and co-founded the Vancouver School Board Sustainability Conference. She has served on the Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force, the Simon Fraser Student Society, SFU Senate, and as board chair of Sustainable SFU. For her work, she was awarded both SFU President’s Leadership in Sustainability Award and Vancouver’s Greenest City Leadership Award in 2015. She is currently co-founding CityHive to build communities where youth fully participate in shaping and co-creating their cities.

Tesicca’s initiative was CityHive, a youth-led organization empowering youth to influence, shape, and co-create their cities.

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GRACEWILLIAMSis a student of Law, Economics and Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. Born in Ghana, she has worked extensively with the Launceston Tasmanian community to encourage diversity and inclusion. Her work has involved developing workshops to aid newly arrived migrants to integrate into Australian society. Grace believes that individuals have the power to change the world. She hopes to challenge people and society as a whole to transform from a state of apathy and dare to be agents of positive change. This hope has motivated her passion for community building via volunteering and empowered her to advocate for the human rights of all people.

Grace’s initiative was to train professionals in the mental health and disability sector to use assistance dogs for therapeutic purposes within Tasmanian communities.

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SUMMARY

PROGRAMIMPACT

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LEADING FELLOWSHIP PARTNER FELLOWSHIP PARTNERS

From the outset, the Junior Fellows program was among the highest priorities for 6 Degrees. We wanted to create a platform for established thought leaders and artists from around the world to gather.But this gathering would be only a half success if we didn’t include up-and-coming leaders as well, young people with the talent, vision and determination to want to be in that same room. The vision of 6 Degrees is to do away with hierarchies and focus instead on meaningful exchanges and connections – on getting important work done together.

In a sense, the ‘Junior Fellows’ is the most demanding category of participant. We don’t just invite them to come to Toronto for 3 days and talk, listen, and exchange. We ask them to bring a project, something they are passionate about, and think will help make the case, at the ground level, for how inclusion can work in their communities. Then we assign a mentor, who consults with them about the idea at the citizen space, and send them home to do the work, and create a report. Lastly, we take those reports and push them, and their authors, into the public sphere, to see if the outcome can withstand scrutiny. This is deliberately difficult – exactly the kind of challenge gifted young adults respond to, and need. New directions and entire careers can be made from such formative experiences.

For our debut Junior Fellows cohort, we selected 10 people from 5 countries. We chose them for the passion of their cover letters, the potential of their project ideas, even simply for the enthusiasm, intelligence, and caring we detected in conversations with the finalists. We weren’t disappointed, either by their dynamic, energizing presence at 6 Degrees in 2016, or by the work they subsequently did, either directly for the program, or ancillary to it. Just a few examples: Munaza Gulzar returned from 6 Degrees to Karachi, Pakistan, to explore how to create a public library system there; Andrea Anderson, an Inuk from Nunatsiavut, carrying on research into revitalizing her native language; Taras Dzyubanskyy, who went home to the Ukraine to advance his work on promoting dialogues around the fraught issue of internal refugees, and who later joined us in April of this year for 6 Degrees Den Haag; and Gracia Dyer Jalea, whose ongoing project of creating of a digital museum celebrating Toronto’s own historic diversity will culminate, in part, in an event held the day before we open 6 Degrees 2017.

We couldn’t be more proud of Andrea, Asad, Bronwyn, Florencia, Grace, Gracia, Michelle, Munaza, Taras, and Tessica. They honoured us by participating in the inaugural program. So much so, we hope to have some of them back in September, and we intend to both grow the 2017 Junior Fellows program, in terms of #s, and its profile, effectiveness, and impact. To ensure this happens, we’ve put the program under the auspice of Ideas&Insights, the new research branch of 6 Degrees. The program was strong in 2016, thanks to those Fellows, and to the partners – the Inspirit Foundation, most notably, along with the Global Centre for Pluralism and the City of Vancouver -- who committed to a project, sight unseen. n 2017, the 6 Degrees Junior Fellowship program will take the lessons learned from 2016 to ensure that we are creating a unique experience for some of the world's top young leaders in inclusion and citizenship.

IMPACT OF 6 DEGREES JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

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SUMMARY

WHAT IS 6 DEGREES?

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6 Degrees challenges our unsettled age. It is about what we can do to counter rising nativism and exclusion, and how we can go about doing it. 6 Degrees is about connection, conversation, artistic representation, and the power that comes from bringing engaged people together. It is also about language: how better language can make for better thinking; how we can reframe issues to open hearts and change minds.

So much of the world now seems in crisis. Regressive definitions of belonging, of Us vs Them, are once more dominant. Walls are going up. Borders are being sealed. Europe is calling “multiculturalism” a failure without having tried it. The United States flirts with a nativism that denies its past and imperils its future. In other countries, nationalism and crude politics are undermining hard won practises of liberal democracy.

6 Degrees is not a conference or summit. It is a public ‘citizen space.’ Too many large-scale events gather remarkable individuals without fostering the right dynamic for genuine exchanges and connections. Too many emphasize who is on stage and who is merely in the audience. So much opportunity is lost by being conventional. At 6 Degrees, we break down barriers to get everyone thinking and working together – to find, in effect, different ways to talk about these urgent matters.

Part of this difference lies with the design of the events, most notably our signature 360s, dialogues done in the round and with as many interventions from the room as we can manage. Part of it lies as well in where we hold our daytime programming: a safe, immersive, inclusive 48 hours in the learning centre at the Art Gallery of Ontario, a space designed to be once involved and informal, and to welcome a mix of 300 plus senior leaders, artists, activists, politicians, Senior and Junior Fellows, and students, all given lots to do and plenty to consider. This is our actual ‘citizen space,’ and we curate it to ensure maximum engagement and surprise.

For 2017, we are programming for the same – and more. It is essential that we bring participants from around the country and world alike. After all, Canada is itself a nation-state experiment, and Toronto the most diverse city on the planet. We need to better understand our rapidly transforming society; we need to find language for it as well.

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HIS HIGHNESS THE AGA KHAN, 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, and inaugural recipient of the Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, internationally acclaimed composer and artist

KWEKU MANDELA, filmmaker and co-founder of the Africa Rising Foundation NAOMI KLEIN, award-winning author, journalist and activist

LUIS LARRAÍN, Founder and Former President of Iguales

JENNIFER WELSH, Chair of International Relations at the European University

PETE SWEETNAM, President of the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS)

CATHERINE HOPPERS, academic from the University of Pretoria

NIIGAAN SINCLAIR, international commentator on Indigenous issues YUSUF S. MÜFTÜOĞLU, former advisor to President Abdullah Gul of Turkey

MATHIEU LEFÈVRE, activist on a mission to reinvent the European dream

ABDUL-REHMAN MALIK, London-based journalist and commentator

RENU MANDHANE, Commissioner at the Ontario Human Rights Commission

KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE, award-winning author

RABIN BALDEWSINGH, Deputy Mayor of The Hague

CRIS DERKSEN, cellist

JOSEF HASLINGER, President of PEN Germany

AHMED SHIHAB-ELDIN, AJ+ senior correspondent

PAULA MARTIN, Advisor to the CEO at VanCity

ROHINTON MEDHORA, President of the Centre of International Governance and Innovation (CIGI)

BESSMA MOMANI, Senior Fellow at 6 Degrees and CIGI

STEPHEN CORNISH, President of Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

THE HON. KATHLEEN WYNNE, Premier of Ontario

A TRIBE CALLED RED, Indigenous DJ crew JOSEPH BOYDEN, award-winning author

NAHEED NENSHI, Mayor of Calgary

JOHN TORY, Mayor of Toronto

THE RT. HON. ADRIENNE CLARKSON, 26th Governor General of Canada and Co-Chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship

BENJAMIN SMITH, President – Passenger Airlines, Air Canada

MOHAMED FAHMY, journalist

JOHN RALSTON SAUL, award-winning essayist and novelist, and Co-Chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship

MONIA MAZIGH, author

SHAMINA SINGH, President of the MasterCard Centre for Inclusive Growth MADELEINE REDFERN, Mayor of Iqaluit

PICO IYER, award-winning author and traveller

DENISE DRESSER, activist, journalist and academic

THE HON. RATNA OMIDVAR, Senator of Canada

JAMES ORBINSKI, Former President and Founder of Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

SOL GUY, cultural producer and founder of DAIS

ROBERT JOHNSON, President, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

RICHARD VAN DER LAKEN, Founder and President, What Design Can Do

6 DEGREES 2016SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS

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MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS

2,575 6 Degrees subscribers20,000 in the ICC network

DYNAMIC POSTER CAMPAIGNS

800 posters across the city4,000 posters in GTA's universities and colleges

DYNAMIC POSTER CAMPAIGNS

Koerner Hall’s Exterior Advertising Board:3 weeks on busy Bloor Street

The inaugural 6 Degrees was launched with the support of a powerful brand and an integrated and expansive marketing campaign. From highly visible outdoor advertising that postered the city, to traditional full page print ads in Canada’s largest newspapers, we made a huge splash. The result was close to 12 million impressions, not including our media and social media coverage (see pages 26-29).

COMMS & MARKETING CHANNELS

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ADVERTISEMENTS

8,961,400 Gross Impressions(May-Sept)

PRINT ADVERTISING

4 full page ads in the Globe and Mail over 3 months2 full page ads in The Hill Times 1 month prior

ONLINE ADVERTISING

1,000,000Big Box + Leaderboard Impressions

at Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Canadian Business

Daily Newspaper, Out of Home and Digital/Social

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MEDIA PARTNERS

Globe and Mail, Opencanada.org, Monocle Radio, The Hill Times

MEDIA REACH

Television, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, Podcasts, Online Journals and Blogs

6 Degrees was exceptionally well received by Canadian and international media, culminating in over 50 news articles. This included coverage across all media types, from television, radio, newspaper and magazine, to podcasts, online journals and blogs. Our media partnerships with the Globe and Mail, OpenCanada, The Hill Times and Monocle Radio produced high-quality and in-depth content showcasing the exceptional caliber of participants and organizations at 6 Degrees.

MEDIA

COVERAGE

50+ Canadian & International News Articles

GLOBE AND MAIL ESSAYS SERIES

6 Essays by the ICC Co-Chairs and CEO

OPEN CANADA PLURALISM SERIES

3 EssaysStreet VideosSpeaker Round Up

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1 Performance by A Tribe Called Red, covered by The Globe and Mail

Kweku Mandela and David McKay, as photographed by Vasko Photography

Richard van der Laken at 360 Exodus, on the camera of Shael Rosen

Josef Haslinger, Pico Iyer, Denise Dresser, and Abdul-Rehman Malik on the set of TVO's panel “Diversity: Gift or a Threat?” on The Agenda with Steve Paikin

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LIVESTREAM

23,000+ people livestreamed the LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture and Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship

Linq @linqlab

¡Gracias nuevamente por la invitación @6DegreesTO! Seguiremos impulsando la dicusión sobre inclusión desde Quito. #6degreesto

Our website was designed to be a hub for information about the inaugural 6 Degrees. We successfully launched a News and Articles section to engage our visitors with unique content from our diverse partners and participants. In 2017 we will continue building momentum and readership through a digital platform. Throughout 6 Degrees, our website had 122,000 views and over 23,000 people tuned into our livestream of events.

ONLINE FACTS

@SARAHSTARFACE

@6DEGREESTO

6 Degrees @6degreesto

Announcing His Highness, the #AgaKhan as the 1st recipient of the Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship!

TOP TWEET10.9K IMPRESSIONS

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WEBSITE

37,216 Users121,868 Page Views53,698Total Sessions

TWITTER STATISTICS

169 Tweets279,000 Impressions2.7% Engagement Rate5,929 Profile Visits745 Mentions338 New Followers

@ANDRE_NADDEO

RBC @RBC

Thank you to everyone who took part in the inaugural #6DegreesTO, let’s keep these important conversations going!

@MIOKOSON

@WORLDDISPATCH

6 Degrees @6degreesto

BIG heartfelt thank you to the people & partners that are bringing this citizen space to life! @ICCICC #6degreesto

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IMPACT

IDEAS: RESEARCH

Thought leadership through more research collaborations

IDEAS: ONLINE

Digital Space: a hub of online content about all things 6 DegreesIdeas shared across Facebook and Twitter

PEOPLE: JUNIOR FELLOWS

Taras Dzyubanskyy• Promoting responsible citizenship in the Ukrainian corporate landscape• Taras has led two Interfaith symposia to date

Michelle Hassler• Celebrating culture, diversity, and understandingt at Saskatchewan's Tapestrama Cultural Festival 2016

PEOPLE: YOUNG ADVISORS

Young leaders expand beyond Toronto and continue to advise on the growth of the platform

PEOPLE: SENIOR FELLOWS

3 Senior Fellows2 Major Research Projects

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