Sheehan Desjardins has moved 15 times, lived on three continents by the time she was two and went to four high schools in four years. She is comfortable with being uncomfortable, knows the value of curiosity and has learned to never take Google Maps for granted.

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Sheehan grew up as the daughter of a professional hockey coach and a journalist. She often tells people she decided to enter this industry because she grew tired of reading fabricated nonsense about her dad. She says she went to the top journalism school in Canada because she wanted to find out why that’s acceptable. More importantly, though, Sheehan wanted to find out how to do better. She wanted to learn how to find better sources, ask better questions, write better stories and frame better conversations.

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Sheehan has witnessed the power of journalism from both sides of a microphone and knows with absolute clarity that a single story is never black and white. It can’t be. And she also knows that those same stories have very real consequences. Journalism, when done properly though, is essential to a democracy. Sheehan wants to be part of the generation that preserves its better angels and propels it into the future.

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