Niki Ashton
Politician
In 2008, this New Democratic Party politician and Ahmed Ali Hashi Human Rights Scholarship recipient began serving the Churchill constituency in the Canadian Parliament.
Before beginning her political career, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Manitoba and a master's degree from Carleton University.
She taught several classes at Manitoba's University College of the North.
The child of a Greek mother and a Canadian politician father, she spent her youth in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada. In late 2011, she married Ryan Barker.
Her struggle to keep a newly-Brazilian-owned Manitoba refinery open attracted the attention of activist and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.