Pamela Uppal

Pamela Uppal

Pamela Uppal is the Project Lead, Decent Work for Women at the Ontario Nonprofit Network. Over the past 10 years she has been connecting theory with practice, engaging on three fronts: research initiatives, frontline work, and policy dialogues. She led a nonprofit organization at the University of Toronto, was a frontline worker in family services, built diversity equity and inclusion capacity in the human services, and undertook multiple research projects exploring gender issues in the South Asian community. Currently, she is leading a project for the Ontario Nonprofit Network exploring women’s employment experiences in the nonprofit sector. Uppal also works as a group facilitator and is a board member of Laadliyan. She holds a Master’s degree in Women Studies & Feminist Research.