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Anita Li is a globally respected media strategist, commentator and consultant. She is also a journalism professor in the GTA and at the City University of New York. Anita has a decade of full-time experience as a multi-platform journalist in three markets: Toronto, New York City, and Ottawa. She started her career as a reporter and editor at Canadian legacy publications, including The Globe and Mail and CBC. After that, she worked in management-level roles at American digital media outlets, such as Complex and Mashable. Most recently, Anita was director of communities at The Discourse, a disruptive new player in the Canadian media scene that fills in gaps in news coverage for underserved communities. Anita is an expert in community-driven journalism, audience engagement, audience-pay business models, newsroom diversity, media ethics and journalism innovation. She is a member of the 2020–21 Online News Association board of directors, and co-founded Canadian Journalists of Colour, a rapidly growing network of racialized media-makers in Canada, in 2018.