Manjula Selvarajah

Manjula Selvarajah is a Toronto-based freelance journalist, technology columnist for CBC Radio and producer for local CBC Radio shows, including the very popular Toronto morning show, Metro Morning. She is a 2014 graduate of Durham College’s Journalism – Print and Broadcast program (now known as Journalism – Mass Media).

Manjula talks to CBC radio audiences across the country about interesting developments in technology. She has guest hosted CBC Radio’s Toronto music show, Big City Small World, which showcases the city’s music talent and presented a column called Live and Learn on CBC’s Fresh Air, where she profiled people dipping their toes into new experiences. She also co-hosted one of the few English shows on Canadian Tamil television, Crossroads on Tamil Vision International.

Prior to earning her diploma, Manjula was vice-president of Marketing and the thirteenth employee at Toronto start-up software firm Eloqua. There she managed a team of nine marketers and inside sales representatives to design and execute creative marketing campaigns, to build a quantifiable sales funnel for Eloqua’s growing North American sales team.

Manjula is the co-founder of the volunteer-run organization Tamil Women Rising. She has volunteered extensively with the Canadian Tamil Youth Development Centre, the Canadian Tamil Congress, and for fundraisers in support of the Tamil Studies Conference and charities in the north and east of Sri Lanka. She is the chair of the Durham College Journalism Program Advisory Committee and returned to the college in February to speak to students during the college’s annual Alumni in the Pit event.