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== Career == Manji began her career working in politics in the 1990s. She was a [[legislative aide]] in the [[Canadian parliament]] for [[New Democratic Party of Canada|New Democratic Party]] member of parliament [[Dawn Black]], then [[press secretary]] in the [[Ontario government]] for [[Ontario New Democratic Party]] cabinet minister [[Marion Boyd]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Todd |first1=Douglas |title=The Trouble with Irshad Manji |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/the-trouble-with-irshad-manji |access-date=28 August 2020 |work=Vancouver Sun |date=13 May 2008}}</ref> and later speechwriter for federal NDP leader [[Audrey McLaughlin]]. At the age of 24, she became the national affairs editorialist for the ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]''<ref name="Popescu" /> and the youngest member of an [[editorial board]] for any Canadian daily. She was also a columnist for Ottawa's new [[Gay media|LGBT newspaper]] ''[[Capital Xtra!]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/Looking_back_on_issue_1_of_Capital_Xtra-6265.aspx|title=Looking back on issue #1 of Capital Xtra|last=Smith|first=Dale|date=11 February 2009|website=Xtra!|publisher=Pink Triangle Press|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303223005/http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/Looking_back_on_issue_1_of_Capital_Xtra-6265.aspx|archive-date=3 March 2009|access-date=28 February 2009}}</ref> She participated in a regular "Friendly Fire" segment on [[TVOntario]]'s ''[[Studio 2]]'' from 1992 to 1994, head-to-head against right-wing writer [[Michael Coren]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tMvzNiHF-XIC&pg=PA70|title=Joe's Toronto: Portraiture|last=Joe|first=Mendelson|date=2005|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-55022-715-4|pages=70|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rrj.ca/a-talking-contradiction/|title=A Talking Contradiction|last=Habib|first=Samra|date=17 March 2003|website=Ryerson Review of Journalism|language=en-US|access-date=8 October 2019}}</ref> Manji hosted and produced several [[Public affairs (broadcasting)|public affairs]] programs on television, including ''Q-Files'' for [[CP24#CHUM era|Pulse24]] and its successor ''[[QT: QueerTelevision]]'' for the Toronto-based [[Citytv]] in the late 1990s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwFuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|title=The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television|last=Burwell|first=Jennifer|date=24 April 2012|publisher=Cleis Press Start|isbn=978-1-57344-882-6|editor-last=Summers|editor-first=Claude|pages=65|language=en|chapter=Canadian Television|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwFuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vancouverobserver.com/5-minutes-with/irshad-manji%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-moral-courage|title=Irshad Manji's moral courage|last=Chiu|first=Joanna|date=5 November 2012|website=The Vancouver Observer|page=2|language=en|access-date=8 October 2019}}</ref> When she left the show, Manji donated the television set's "big Q" to the [[Pride Library]] at the [[University of Western Ontario]].<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Cooper|first=Danielle|title="Big Gay Library": An Ethnography of the Pride Library at the University of Western Ontario|date=2011|degree=Master of Information|publisher=University of Toronto|url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/30559/1/Cooper_Danielle_201111_MI_thesis.pdf#page=41}}</ref> She has also appeared on television networks around the world, including [[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]], the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]], [[BBC]], [[MSNBC]], [[C-SPAN]], [[CNN]], [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]], the [[Fox News Channel]], [[CBS]], and [[HBO]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/IrshadManjiTV|title=Irshad Manji|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=25 May 2019}}</ref> She was also a visiting professor at [[New York University]] (NYU) from 2008 to 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wagner.nyu.edu/community/faculty/irshad-manji|title=Irshad Manji | NYU Wagner|website=Wagner.nyu.edu|access-date=22 July 2017}}{{Dead link|date=May 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kwese.espn.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8157338/ioc-bar-saudi-arabia-olympics-women-added-team|title=IOC should bar Saudi Arabia from Olympics unless women added to team|date=12 July 2012|website=Kwese.espn.com|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref> Manji joined NYU's [[Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service]] to create the Moral Courage Project, an initiative to teach young people how to speak truth to power within their own communities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irshadmanji.com/moral-courage-project|title=Explore the Issues|last=Manji|first=Irshad|website=IrshadManji.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901122500/https://www.irshadmanji.com/Moral-Courage-Project|archive-date=1 September 2012|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref> Her courses focused on how "to make values-driven decisions for the sake of their integrity β professional and personal".<ref>{{cite web|last=Wagner|title=Moral Courage Project|url=http://wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/affiliates|publisher=Wagner School of Public Service|access-date=24 January 2014}}</ref> In April 2013, Moral Courage TV (on [[YouTube]]), was launched by Manji and [[Cornel West]], a professor and activist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GguSvt-Ow|title=Cornel West & Irshad Manji at NYU Reynolds, 4/16|date=5 June 2013 |publisher=[[YouTube]]|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref> West spoke of Manji's work as a "powerful force for good."<ref>{{cite web|title=Cornel West and Irshad Manji at NYU Reynolds on 4/16/2013| date=5 June 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GguSvt-Ow|publisher=NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship|access-date=1 October 2013}}</ref> In 2015, Manji developed "the West Coast presence of Moral Courage" at the [[Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy]] of the [[University of Southern California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://communicationleadership.usc.edu/news/muslim-reformer-named-cclp-senior-fellow/|title=Muslim reformer named CCLP senior fellow|last=Chapman|first=Justin|date=11 September 2015|website=[[Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy]]|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref>
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