Barinder Rasode is proud to be called disruptive: heck, that just means she is getting stuff done. While Barinder’s so-called “disruptiveness” has at times rubbed people the wrong way, she sees being disruptive as a good attribute, and would like to encourage other women to identify with it positively as well.
As a long-time social justice advocate, Barinder became the first female South Asian city councillor in North America in 2008. In 2014, she ran for mayor of the City of Surrey, and despite being a front-runner in the campaign, she says she received a ton of backlash from her community as it was not widely encouraged in the South Asian community for women to speak out.
Despite these challenges, she has been the recipient of a Ruby Award for the work she has done in the community and was listed as one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Vancouver in 2014.
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