Anuja Purohit
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About Anuja Purohit
Anuja Purohit is a law student at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law | Common Law. She has completed her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Environmental Studies (Wilfrid Laurier University) and a Masters of Environment and Sustainability (University of Toronto). She began her involvement with Women’s Healthy Environments Network (WHEN) during her Masters where she conducted a critical review of the Bill S-5 amendments for the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 and now sits on WHEN’s Board of Directors.
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