Shanika Abeysinghe

Women in Leadership


Biography

Shanika is a founder at Bessie Box, where she leads storytelling, marketing, and customer success. At the age of 23, Shanika was named the executive director of Marda Loop Justice Film Festival (a Calgary-based socially conscious documentary film festival) and worked in communications at the Calgary Drop-In Centre, using storytelling to raise funds and support the city’s most vulnerable. A champion for Calgary, Shanika has sat on committees for many organizations including: Kids Help Phone, Calgary International Film Festival, Canadian International Fashion Film Festival, Famous 5 Foundation, University of Calgary Alumni Arts & Culture Council, and the Calgary Stampede.