
professional p r o f i l e: j o s i a h s i n a n a n

Josiah Sinanan is a multi-media host, reporter, journalist and award-winning podcaster; most recently featured on CBC Radio One across southwestern Ontario and recognized for "Outstanding Society and Culture" from the 2021 Canadian Podcast Awards for his show, anticulture.
Coming from a mixed-race, Canadian family and experiencing a wide array of international experiences, Josiah's passion is people, diplomacy and connectedness. His educational background is a degree in International Relations from the University of Calgary, with focuses on Security and Strategy and French, undertaking a portion of his studies at the prestigious SciencesPo institution in Paris, France. Josiah is a Francophile and loves conversing in his second language of French.
Josiah has always led with his heart and loves people. In 2016, Josiah was deployed to Sierra Leone in West Africa, where he helped author and develop a locally sustainable and asset-based curriculum to combat the unusually high maternal and infant mortality rates in the country, in partnership with the NGO, Freedom Tree. The curriculum is still in use today and has restored healthy birthing practices to a number of remote villages. This is the second time Josiah has co-authored a program, also implementing a course at the Calgary Drop-in and Rehab Centre for Calgarians re-entering the workforce.
No stranger to the online world, Josiah previously held the role as "Digital Lead" at the digital marketing agency, Arcade Studios, where he managed over $1M in digital advertising budgets, managed various, cross-industry social media accounts and was part of the social media team for John Krasinski's "Some Good News" project.
Currently, Josiah is based in Windsor, ON, where he works as a producer, reporter and guest host for Afternoon Drive, a CBC program broadcast between Windsor and London in Southwestern Ontario. The opportunity arose following a year of freelance work for the CBC, appearing as a culture panelist on "Canada Tonight" with Ginella Massa, and guest hosting the Alberta radio program, "The Key of A".
Josiah is also a huge lover of music, and when he isn't sharing stories you may find him belting out at karaoke, writing his own songs with his guitar, curating the perfect playlist, or showing up best dressed at a Beyonce, Florence + The Machine...or Aly & AJ concert.