Paula Todd is a Canadian journalist, lawyer, television host. Todd currently hosts and co-produces TVO's Person 2 Person with Paula Todd, which profiles citizens exploring issues and facing challenges in the political, social and cultural spheres.
For a decade, she also co-hosted TVO's Studio 2, the popular Gemini-award winning nightly current affairs program.
Todd entered public broadcasting after more than a dozen years at Canada's largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, where she worked as a political reporter, news reporter and feature writer. The last four years at the Star, Todd served as an editorial writer and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
Todd served as a judge for the National Newspaper Awards, the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Awards and is a National Magazine Award nominee. She is the 2004 recipient of the Paramedic Association's Media Award for public education, and serves on the volunteer Board of Directors of Integra, an organization that assists children and teens with learning disabilities. She works extensively as a moderator in politics, law and business, and is a well-known inspirational speaker.
Todd, who holds a B.A. and an L.L.B., studied literature and political science at York University and law at Osgoode Hall, and is a member of the Ontario Bar.
Todd has worked extensively in print, radio and private and public television, including CBC Television, CBC Radio, Newsworld, and Global.
She has written more than a 1,000 articles for such publications as the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Elm Street Magazine, Reader's Digest, Homemaker's, and The Law Times.
Paula Todd is the author of the best-selling book, A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us published by Thomas Allen.
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