A graduate of Milliken Mills High School in Markham, Ontario, Abbas Somji is a Centennial College / UTSC Journalism Joint program graduate from 2008. Somji interned at CBC Radio in Toronto, before moving to Moncton in the spring to work for CBC Radio News. His news report about diversity at the University of Toronto Scarborough was aired on CBC 99.1 FM. Listen here. While an undergraduate, Somji worked a summer as a tour guide on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, freelanced for newspapers in Markham, edited Toronto-based AMÖI Magazine and dabbled in events photography for South Asian publication, Anokhi Magazine. He speaks several languages, including French, Gujarati and is brushing up on his Swahili. While covering the October 2008 federal election, Somji got a chance to interview Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and tailed the Prime Minister's campaign bus as it passed through New Brunswick. Somji's time at Centennial College helped spark his interest in broadcast journalism, where he practised interviewing, editing and delivering radio newscasts live to air on the Centennial College journalism school's radio station, Observer Radio News. Somji also appeared on Centennial's television news program, CCTV News. | 
