Lyndsie Bourgon is a freelance journalist, researcher and editor. She is currently based in Toronto, but has previously lived and worked in Ottawa, Halifax, Botswana, Turkey, Edinburgh and Italy. She grew up in a very, very, very small town in Southern Alberta. She is a graduate of the University of King’s College’s four-year journalism programme, and has a minor in gender and women’s studies.
Lyndsie’s writing has been published in Canadian Business, Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and with The Canadian Press, among other magazines, newspapers and websites.
She has won numerous awards, including:
- The Atlantic Journalism Award Student Prize for Journalistic Excellence (2008)
- The John F. Godfrey Alumni Book Award (2008)
- A Canadian University Press John H. MacDonald Student Journalism Award in the News category (2007)
- The John F. Godfrey Scholarship for International Development (2006)
- An Alexander Rutherford Scholarship (2004).