Adrian Bradbury
Founder and Executive Director, Athletes for Africa and Football for Good.
Last Contribution:
The Government's Newspeak
Contributor Biography
Mr. Bradbury is the Founder and Director of Athletes for Africa, which provides education and opportunities for youth in Africa through sports. Athletes for Africa's best known projects are: "GuluWalk," an annual event with walks in over 100 cities in 16 countries held in support of the abandoned children and internally displaced people of northern Uganda; and, in partnership with the Steve Nash Foundation, "Football for Good," a sustainable social business that brings academy football (soccer), leadership training and educational opportunities for youth to regions of Africa that have been ravaged by war.
He was named a Maclean's Newsmaker of the Year and was among the first of six Canadians to be awarded a Global Youth Fellowship by The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation. His writing has appeared in the The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Walrus, The Sudan Tribune, and Uganda's Daily Monitor. He recently co-authored a children's book on the impacts of conflict on youth, When Elephants Fight (Orca, 2008).
He sits as Vice President of Resolve Uganda, a non-profit organization campaigning for peace in Uganda. Bradbury is a Toronto native, University of Ottawa graduate. He is inspired every day by his two boys, Isaac and Owen.
