Charlemagne, Quebec
General Coordinator, Hoodstock
With a bachelor’s degree in management from HEC Montréal, Cassandra Exumé left the business world to devote herself to community activism. For more than five years, she has led Hoodstock, an organization committed to fighting systemic inequalities and the recipient of the Jack Layton Award (2021) and the Richard Cloward & Frances Fox Piven Award (2022). Through the Black Inc. podcast, she has hosted impactful conversations on the impact of the Black vote in municipal politics and social justice issues, particularly in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Selected as one of the 20 women of the Young Women Leaders Network (2022), she works to ensure the full participation of Black communities.