Garvia Bailey
Garvia Bailey is an award-winning broadcaster, producer, and co-founder with over two decades of experience in Canadian media, including the CBC and JazzFM. A Jamaican-born, Stratford-raised Torontonian, she is a co-founder of Media Girlfriends, which amplifies underrepresented voices in media. Her work includes the award-winning Canadian Black history podcast series, Strong and Free/Fort et Libre, which she hosted, co-wrote, and co-produced in cooperation with Historica Canada. Garvia is also the co-creator of Storytelling with a Focus on Podcasting, a Carleton University course, and serves as a judge for the prestigious Hillman Prize for Investigative Journalism. In 2023, she was named a 2023/2024 Massey Journalism Fellow.
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Recent news mentions
Garvia Bailey hosts a podcast exploring happiness in the context of stress and burnout.
How can I effectively lead a large team?
Canada· 2025-03-15
Garvia gets some crowd-sourced wisdom from people nominated by loved ones as ‘the happiest people in Canada’.
What can we learn from some of the happiest people in Canada?Canada· 2025-03-04
Garvia Bailey is the host of the podcast Happy Enough, where she speaks with experts and real people about happiness.
Coming soon: Happy Enough, a new podcast about happinessCanada· 2025-02-14Garvia Bailey is an award-winning broadcaster, producer and co-founder with over two decades of experience in Canadian media.
Coming soon: Happy Enough, a new podcast about happinessCanada· 2025-02-12