Michelle McQuigge is a journalist with The Canadian Press, Canada’s national wire service and her home country’s counterpart to The Associated Press. A summer internship fresh out of Toronto Metropolitan University’s journalism school eventually led to full-time reporting work, and her articles and features have appeared in newspapers, on radio stations and online across the country. Michelle gradually carved out a beat covering issues that affect disabled Canadians and was the only reporter with a national news outlet to chronicle the drafting, shaping and eventual passage of Canada’s first piece of national accessibility legislation. Today she serves as Weekend and Special Projects Editor, overseeing news operations from coast to coast during weekend hours.
Michelle has also spent nearly a decade on the board of a not-for-profit supporting blind Canadians and currently chairs the board overseeing The Seeing Eye Organization, the school’s Canadian arm. She lives in Toronto and is accompanied everywhere by Lucy, the lively black lab she’s lucky to call her third Seeing Eye dog.
