Alyssa Esparaz Compassion Canada
Alyssa Esparaz is in the International Development Studies program at the University of Toronto.She founded Freedom Creations, a social enterprise that sells handmade knitted accessories and donates 100% of the profits to fight injustice and violence against people living in poverty. She blogs at http://godsgal4ever.blogspot.ca/. In 2013 she received the YMCA Peace Medallion from the YMCA of Greater Toronto, for her contributions to peace building through her blog and other projects. She recently agreed to write a regular column about Compassion for Love is Moving, a youth magazine published by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and distributed along with Faith Today.
She is the host of Compassion Canada’s youth curriculum, True Story: What God wants us to do about poverty, and speaks regularly on behalf of the organization.