Ce qui nous voile / Our Veil
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools" – Martin Luther King Jr.
Andreanne Pâquet is a social anthropologist, human rights activitst, manager and communicator. She studied both anthropology and cinema and is passionnate about visual anthropology: films and images that shape our knowledge of the Other. That's why she launched the Our Veil project in 2010, in order to offer an alternative image of Muslim women wearing the veil. Her work is now featured in the Museum of World Religions of Nicolet, Quebec, and will be part of the future Canadian Museum for Human Rights that will open up in 2014 in Winnipeg, Canada.
She worked 8 years for ENSEMBLE for the respect of diversity first as a Workshop Facilitator, than a Project Coordinator and finally as the COO, organizing workshops in high schools to promote understanding and openess to differences. She presided Tools for Peace, a network of Montreal-based NGOs working toward peace in Quebec. Member of Amnesty International, she is a long-time contributor to the French-Canadian branch of the movement as a group leader, youth ambassador and lecturer. Andreanne published various texts and pedagogical tools and contributes to Vues & Voix Radio, a web radio dedicated to people living with a visual handicap.
She is also Treasurer of the Board of her housing cooperative, where she enjoys living with her husband and 7 year-old daughter.
