Andria Spindel is the Executive Director of the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation.
She was raised in Calgary and moved to Toronto in 1981 to assume the ED role at Ontario March of Dimes. Stayed there 38 years and grew the agency into March of Dimes Canada, retiring as President and CEO in 2018. Educated at U of Calgary. BA in Sociology, UBC, MSW, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from U of Guelph in 2013.
Taught one year in the Canadian Arctic, in Igloolik; taught one year in a residential school in rural Kenya, travelled across Asia one year, including Afghanistan and Iran. 
She began work with Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation immediately upon retirement in 2019, and continued until now as volunteer ED, hosting regular information webinars, writing a weekly Bulletin and leading major advocacy projects; and helped establish End Jew Hatred Canada, the civil rights movement for the Jewish people.
Formed the Jewish Diversity Committee of Darchei Noam in 2004 after attending a conference sponsored by the Jewish Multiracial Network in the US. That led to her serving as a board member for Kulanu, a US Jewish charity, for 7 years which took her to Ethiopia to meet the Kachene Jews, the south of Italy to meet the Anousim in various small communities, and connected me with leaders of many Jewish communities
around the world. She has supported efforts to educate Canadian Jews and others in learning about the diversity of the Jewish people. Through the synagogue she organized Jewish speakers from around the world, including from among the Ibo of Nigeria, the Ghanaian Jews of Sefwi Wiwaso, the Jews of Ethiopia who identify as Beit Avraham, and others from Uganda, Iran, Iraq, China, Libya, Yemen, Morocco, and Tunisia, as well as Suriname and India. That led me to incorporate a new charity, Kulanu Canada in 2014, which helps these isolated and remote communities directly, by funding projects, supporting Jewish education, linking
with Jewish resources, educating our communities here about their communities abroad, and responding to their requests.
Through CAEF programs such as webinars, we have expanded significantly and now reach over 8000 people in Canada, the US, Europe and Israel and occasionally listeners join us from Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. Their focus is combating antiZionism which is but the latest form of the oldest hatred, Jew hatred. Antisemitism is growing and spreading like a virus, and its many manifestations are becoming normalized. It is essential that Jews know their own history, understand that Israel is an essential part of Jewish life, without which there is no Judaism, and that there is a
collective responsibility to protect and support Jewish self-determination in their ancestral homeland.