Mary Anne Chambers and University Toronto

Harvard Business School: Across the tiny room perches a petite, Yale University-educated woman hailing from Addis Ababa, the capital city in the heart of Ethiopia, according to Toronto Star. Their guest, Jamaican-born Order of Ontario recipient and former Liberal cabinet minister Mary Anne Chambers, recounts intimate stories about her decades-long career. On this particular Thursday, a vibrant, smiling woman, born in Kuwait and now entering family medicine residency at the University of Toronto, sits on a couch alongside a Harvard Business School graduate, the son of two immigrants from the Caribbean island of Antigua. Thought-provoking gatherings are a regular occurrence for this congregation of young intellectuals, who are flying under the radar of the outside world but hope to change it for the better. A half-century older than most of the faces in the room, Alexander — mentor to these young men and women — sits among them, his eyes fixed on Chambers as she doles out advice from her years in business and government. Bruce Alexander calls them the Shadow Cabinet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.