My name is Aalaa Rehman, and I want to be your Ward 10 Councilor.
I am a Ward 10 resident, youth leader, community builder, and an environmental advocate. I call Kitchener my home and I'm currently pursuing a degree in Biomedical Engineering.
Kitchener has been my home for ten beautiful years. I live with my two younger siblings, and my two wonderful parents. I am a Biomedical Engineering student at the University of Guelph, but I live right here in Ward 10.
Although I am young, I have a wealth of experience within the municipality in leadership and advocacy. Through my company Aalaa Conseil, I've conducted quite a few projects, even before I moved to Kitchener, and continue that once I came to Kitchener. You can see these past projects, my awareness campaign, and my radio show under 'more'.
When I first moved to Kitchener, when I was 10, I started my awareness campaign on the importance of Youth and Minority vote. I was inspired by my mother, who ran for Schoolboard Trustee back when I lived in Toronto (around when I was 6-8 years old). At that time, I went door knocking with her, and that gave me a really great opportunity to find out more about the work that goes into a campaign and the importance of talking to the community. The issue we kept seeing was many people from the same marginalized communities shared this sentiment. Putting that into account, we would see large demographics of people thinking that their vote did not matter, thus not voting as a product of that, thus being unable to see changes that they need for their communities.
Through my awareness campaign, I talked to various community leaders (eg. politicians, activists, union leaders), in order to show marginalized communities just how much their vote mattered. I stumbled into an amazing opportunity when I was around 11, which was to start my radio show, #CANYouthVoteMatter & #CANMinorityVoteMatter, based on my awareness campaign. Through this show, we got an opportunity to reach an even larger audience through CKMS 102.7, and myself and my two younger siblings were able to get our radio licenses.
At the age of twelve, I became the youngest member of the Mayor’s Task Force for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. I am a huge advocate for the community to be represented through our leadership. I became the co-lead of the Community Engagement Subgroup within the task force, which meant that when the pandemic struck, it was my responsibility to continue finding ways to engage with the community with new strategies to mitigate the fact that the work could not be done in person. It was definitely a struggle, but with the help of my group, we were able to get the necessary data needed to continue the work of the Task Force.
After this, I became the Youth Representative for the WR’s Anti Racism Advisory Working Group. In this role, I looked through policy throughout the region to make sure that at its heart, there was no bias, and that there was an anti racist lens present throughout. I also got to edit and create policy and anti racist training through this role. I also was one of the main faces of the working group, so I attended most of their public events and was one of their main speakers, helping to deliver town halls as well. It has been a very insightful role for me, and helped me grow a lot professionally.
Just as I've done for the last ten years, I want to advocate for the people in my community. Kitchener has taught me about the importance of listening deeply, in order to deliver, and that's exactly what I intend to do. I will always strive to keep communication as open as possible, in order to serve you!
I am a Ward 10 resident, youth leader, community builder, and an environmental advocate. I call Kitchener my home and I'm currently pursuing a degree in Biomedical Engineering.
Kitchener has been my home for ten beautiful years. I live with my two younger siblings, and my two wonderful parents. I am a Biomedical Engineering student at the University of Guelph, but I live right here in Ward 10.
Although I am young, I have a wealth of experience within the municipality in leadership and advocacy. Through my company Aalaa Conseil, I've conducted quite a few projects, even before I moved to Kitchener, and continue that once I came to Kitchener. You can see these past projects, my awareness campaign, and my radio show under 'more'.
When I first moved to Kitchener, when I was 10, I started my awareness campaign on the importance of Youth and Minority vote. I was inspired by my mother, who ran for Schoolboard Trustee back when I lived in Toronto (around when I was 6-8 years old). At that time, I went door knocking with her, and that gave me a really great opportunity to find out more about the work that goes into a campaign and the importance of talking to the community. The issue we kept seeing was many people from the same marginalized communities shared this sentiment. Putting that into account, we would see large demographics of people thinking that their vote did not matter, thus not voting as a product of that, thus being unable to see changes that they need for their communities.
Through my awareness campaign, I talked to various community leaders (eg. politicians, activists, union leaders), in order to show marginalized communities just how much their vote mattered. I stumbled into an amazing opportunity when I was around 11, which was to start my radio show, #CANYouthVoteMatter & #CANMinorityVoteMatter, based on my awareness campaign. Through this show, we got an opportunity to reach an even larger audience through CKMS 102.7, and myself and my two younger siblings were able to get our radio licenses.
At the age of twelve, I became the youngest member of the Mayor’s Task Force for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. I am a huge advocate for the community to be represented through our leadership. I became the co-lead of the Community Engagement Subgroup within the task force, which meant that when the pandemic struck, it was my responsibility to continue finding ways to engage with the community with new strategies to mitigate the fact that the work could not be done in person. It was definitely a struggle, but with the help of my group, we were able to get the necessary data needed to continue the work of the Task Force.
After this, I became the Youth Representative for the WR’s Anti Racism Advisory Working Group. In this role, I looked through policy throughout the region to make sure that at its heart, there was no bias, and that there was an anti racist lens present throughout. I also got to edit and create policy and anti racist training through this role. I also was one of the main faces of the working group, so I attended most of their public events and was one of their main speakers, helping to deliver town halls as well. It has been a very insightful role for me, and helped me grow a lot professionally.
Just as I've done for the last ten years, I want to advocate for the people in my community. Kitchener has taught me about the importance of listening deeply, in order to deliver, and that's exactly what I intend to do. I will always strive to keep communication as open as possible, in order to serve you!
This page was created on August 23rd, 2026.