About
Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos
Author of a novel about Montreal street children, and two books about English–French relations in Canada, Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos shared a Governor General’s Literary Award and has earned several journalism prizes for exposés about marginalized women and minorities.
Now she is focusing on the expansion of the social economy, whether in developing countries such as India or at home in Canada.
A reporter first
The Montreal Star
As an investigative journalist, she worked underground in several Montreal sweatshops and wrote about the exploitation of immigrant women.
Reporting abroad
She has reported from France, Greece, India, Switzerland and China.
Teaching
For many years she was a professor of journalism in Montreal, at Concordia University.