Jen Hassum
Executive Director
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Jen Hassum is the Executive Director of the Broadbent Institute. In the last two decades, Jen led teams at the municipal, provincial and national levels. She is recognized as an innovator in building online community and mobilizing users to real-world action.
Most recently as the Publisher of PressProgress, she helped oversee its growth into an award-winning national news organization read by millions of Canadians. Over the years, her work has contributed to historic electoral victories, winning new organized workplaces and helping win important public policy gains for working-class people. She studied history at York University and the University of Toronto and lives in Cambridge, ON with her partner and two young kiddos.
Recent Publications
September 6, 2024
National Observer
A free NDP is party’s best chance to win back Canada’s working class
Now, free from the agreement with the federal Liberals, the NDP can lean into its historic bread-and-butter roots of championing working-class people against corporate profiteering and a laissez-faire government.
April 2, 2024
Toronto Star
Opinion | To solve the housing crisis, we must get government building housing again
We cannot wait for the market to fix itself. This is a moment that calls for bold thinking. But it is also a moment that calls for old thinking. Because to solve today’s crisis, we should look at how Canada successfully solved the housing crises of the past.
