Omar Siddiqui
Communications Specialist
Omar Siddiqui is the Communications Specialist for the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation. He has been with CCLF since 2019, when he joined as a Communications Assistant. Since then, he has helped with the administrative and communications aspects of CCLF’s major programs, such as Read On Canada! and Lost & Found.
Omar began his career at the Toronto International Film Festival, first working as the Assistant, Government Relations and Philanthropy, and later taking the position of Coordinator to the CEO. He spent three years in the latter role, during which he developed his administrative and logistical skills. His educational background is in political science and film editing.
Omar credits his love for literacy to his childhood, which was spent curled up in library corners with whichever volume of Brian Jacques’ Redwall series that he found that day.