Helping the downtrodden and voiceless remains focus of nonconformist Sadie Amin

Sadie Amin

If unconventional was a person it would have to be Sadie Amin, a woman who wears the hats of human rights advocate, sexual and reproductive health advocate, environmental advocate, cancer survivor and politician.

During a conversation with the attorney, who has no qualms about picking up garbage someone dropped on the roadway and asking the offender to throw it in the bin, one can go from hearing about how she chained herself to a tree in California to protest the felling of trees, to how she likes her rum and can match drinks with any man and not get wasted.

Amin talked, too, about how she is learning Spanish to assist Venezuelan and Cuban migrants who are being exploited and then with a deadpan expression shared how she ordered her husband, Reggie Bhagwandin (former chief executive officer of GuyOil) out of a bar because he was associating with someone whom she had cut off. In her words, they were partners and as partners they needed to do things together.