A former Canadian journalist who was held hostage in Somalia for 460 days will deliver a keynote address in Yellowknife ahead of International Women’s Day.
Amanda Lindhout is set to speak at the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce’s upcoming Trailblazers Symposium.
Lindhout is expected to discuss the mindset she developed to get through the ordeal and steps others can take to “better navigate change, uncertainty and the unexpected in every aspect of business and our personal lives.”
In August 2008, Lindhout, then a 28-year-old freelance journalist from Alberta, was traveling near Mogadishu when she and others were abducted by armed men. Kept hostage and abused for months, Lindhout was released in November 2009 after her family paid a ransom.
She has since published a memoir, A House in the Sky.
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The Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce hosts a Trailblazers Symposium annually to celebrate female entrepreneurs and leaders.
Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s first Indigenous attorney general and justice minister, delivered the keynote speech at last year’s event with a focus on consensus.
This year’s event with Lindhout will include a buffet lunch, a question-and-answer period and a book signing.
Copies of A House in the Sky will be available for purchase from Yellowknife Books.
The symposium is set to take place at the Explorer Hotel on March 6 starting at 11:30am. Tickets are available on the chamber’s website.
