Photographer takes people’s headshots for free

If you are a woman or non-binary individual in the Toronto area, Yuli Scheidt wants to take your headshot.
Scheidt, a product designer and freelance photographer, is taking free or pay-what-you-can headshots for the month of November to help people with their professional images.
She particularly wanted to help people trying to enter professional careers, specifically in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, though the project is also open to media workers.
“It’s really close to my heart as someone who went to school for design, because I see the difference between the number of women in the schools compared to the number in the actual workforce,” Scheidt said.
There is still a lack of female voices in the newsroom. According to a 2014 report by the Women’s Media Centre, a U.S. based non-profit organization, nearly 63 per cent of bylines and on-air appearances in American print, television and online mediums in 2013 were men.
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