Jane Farrow

Jane Farrow
Born	1961 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education	BA Hons Anthropology, University of Toronto 1989
Occupation	Community organizer

Jane Farrow is a Canadian author and broadcaster and community organizer. Her written works include Wanted Words, Wanted Words 2, and (with Ira Basen, David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace) the Canadian Book of Lists. She worked for CBC Radio from 1998 to 2007, producing segments for programs such as This Morning and The Sunday Edition, including the popular word-game segment Wanted Words (from which the books of the same name were derived). Farrow hosted and co-created other short series and shows including Workology (all about the modern workplace, cube farmers and clockwatchers) ' and the etymological program And Sometimes Y, Home (about our obsession with domesticity) and The Omnivore (about our complex relationship to food and eating). She and her producers won a Silver Medal at the New York Radio Awards for “The Brain and Language”, an episode of ‘And Sometimes Y’ on CBC Radio One in 2009.

In the 1990s Farrow worked as a program director, manager and DJ in campus/community radio in Halifax (CKDU Program Director) and Toronto (CUIT Station Manager) while also acting as the Vice President of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA). While living in Vancouver she organized a conference for the National Association of Women and the Law in 1994. Returning to Toronto, she made several indie Super 8 films becoming the Operations Director and Program Coordinator for the Inside Out Film and Video Festival, where she helped open the door for many LGBT film and video makers.

While a resident of Ward 18 in the Queen West Triangle, Farrow helped form and later chaired the residents' association Active 18. This coalition of citizens, residents and business-owners came together in 2005 and continues to advocate for good urban design and positive local development that genuinely contributes to and engages with local community and the city.

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