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Annu Kapoor<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]As an alumni of RBC\u2019s Top 25 Canadian Immigrants, Wali Shah is a poet and motivational speaker. He\u2019s delivered TED talks, created poetic messages for corporate groups, narrated voice overs for commercials, and spoken at hundreds of schools and colleges across North America. Wali\u2019s message of social change, and his work with empowering a generation of youth, led him to serving his hometown as Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga. Wali closed out President Barack Obama’s 2020 visit to Toronto, with a poem written particularly for the event. He’s impressed notable figures with his freestyle poetry and performances, including: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kendrick Lamar. Wali\u2019s work inspires thousands to follow his voice, his journey, and his advocacy \u2014 Wali Shah is the people\u2019s messenger.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1207″ img_size=”full” style=”xtd-shadow–large-hard” css=”” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1758465188536{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;padding-top: 60px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758652481096{margin-bottom: 64px !important;}”]\n

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[vc_row el_id=”getting-here”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1759042690060{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Authors [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text css=””] Annu Kapoor [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]As an alumni of RBC\u2019s Top 25 Canadian Immigrants, Wali Shah is a poet and motivational speaker. He\u2019s delivered TED talks, created poetic messages for corporate groups, narrated voice overs for commercials, and spoken at hundreds of schools and colleges across North America. Wali\u2019s message of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1223","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1223\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}