Miru Yogarajah is Planning Coordinator at Parkdale People’s Economy, documentary filmmaker, writer, community organizer, and researcher. Miru aims to showcase the multifaceted experiences of being a person on the margins and the delicate and intimate experiences they host alongside survival. They strive to interrogate the systems that work for and against people in the margins. 

Their film works have been produced by National Film Board of Canada, in development with CBC, premiered at the 2020 Inside Out Film Festival, 2020 Regent Park Film Festival, and premiered at the 2021 F-O-R-M Film Festival. They received the 2022 Hot Docs Cross Current Fund to develop their feature-length documentary Im/migrant Buyers’ Club.

Miru was a 2021 The Local fellow and wrote a piece on the failures of the Employment Insurance system in Canada. They also have words in West End Phoenix, Briarpatch Magazine, GUTS Magazine, LOGO TV, and many more.

They have their Master of Public Policy from the University of Toronto and their Bachelor of Arts in Government and African and African diaspora studies from the University of Texas at Austin.