Raji Aujla is the president of Willendorf Cultural Planning and editor-in-chief of Newest Magazine, sister companies that research better representation, inclusion, and expression of IBPoC voices in Canadian arts and culture. She has been a cultural builder, curator, creative director, and advocate in the Canadian arts sector for the past ten years. Prior to this, she worked in journalism, spending her efforts to research and develop stories focused on racial, gender, and caste injustices. Throughout this experience, storytelling has been her greatest superpower to help bring together people of different backgrounds and beliefs and to empower our generation to design a better future for our children.

Raji studied Visual Culture at the University of Toronto and is a Masters candidate of Cultural Studies at Queen's University. She is a Senior Fellow and Senior Resident at the Massey College and also sits on the boards and committees for Canadian Art Foundation, Canada’s National Ballet School, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Baaz News Org. She was selected as Independent Curator for the City of Toronto’s Year of Public Art 2021 and sat on their Peer Review Panel distributing over $3 million dollars to Toronto-based artists. She freelances for the Globe and Mail and has bylines in the CBC, Chatelaine, Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, and Baaz News.