Nam

Nam Kiwanuka is an award-winning journalist and is the host/producer of TVO’s (MIS)Treated, a podcast on women's health. She hosted The Thread with Nam Kiwanuka, The Agenda in the Summer and was the co-host of The Agenda with Steve Paikin. She also contributes to columns for TVO.org. Originally from Uganda, Nam spent her early years in a refugee camp in Kenya before settling in London, Ontario. She's lived and worked in the UK, the USA and Sierra Leone. Her remarkable career in journalism includes roles as the first Black woman in Canada to host a magazine sports show with NBAXL and CFL Crunch on Sportsnet; as a VJ/Videographer at MuchMusic and writing a column for the BBC’s Focus on Africa. She's interviewed Britney Spears, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Africa's first female head of state and Nobel Prize winner, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf plus many more newsmakers. Beyond her professional work, she’s a passionate plant collector with a collection to rival Allan Gardens and is determined to perfect her chocolate chip cookie recipe.