Oumy Ndour

• Name — Oumy Ndour • Born — 1980 • Birthplace — Dakar • Education — University of Dakar Conservatoire Lassalle • Field — film director journalist

Ndour was born in Thiès. In 1998 she graduated from the l'Ecole de Bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes (EBAD) at Cheikh Anta Diop University. In 2002 she continued her studies at the same university in the Centre d'études des sciences et techniques de l'information (CESTI), with a focus on television and graduating in 2002. Ndour then moved to Montreal and attended The Conservatoire Lassalle, earning a diploma in video in 2004.

After leaving RTS she co-founded Ladies Club in April 2016 with Mame Codou Dieng Cissé. Ladies Club network is a platform for women only to discuss and network, to enable women to talk about issues affecting them, to find solidarity amongst other women, and to provide community and help for women in need. The network offers monthly meetings, entrepreneurial training workshops, and help finding work, housing and healthcare.

Oumy Ndour chose to wear a hijab on television and was a member of Collective Muslima, an activist group against stigmatization of veiled women, making them more visible citizens of society.

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation journalist. Institutional cataloguing adds that oumy Ndour is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded with the occupation filmmaker. The record continues: oumy Ndour is recorded as a citizen of Senegal. Recorded with the gender female. Institutional cataloguing adds that oumy Ndour was born on 1 January 1980.