My position involves both being the Editor in Chief of the website Muslim Link, Muslim Canadians Online Hub.Responsibilities: • Nurturing a vision for the website so that its content reflects the diversity of Canada's Muslim communities• Developing policies in order to ensure that content conforms to this vision• Identifying, researching and writing articles for the website• Identifying, researching and posting event information for events by and of interest to Muslims in over 13 cities across Canada• Identifying, researching and posting directory information for businesses and community organizations of interest to Muslims across Canada.• Outreaching to Canada's diverse Muslim communities in order to promote Muslim Link• Outreaching to local businesses and organizations in order to sell advertising in Muslim Link's website• Creating partnerships with local Muslim and Non-Muslim institutions in order to promote Muslim Link• Representing Muslim Link at community events, to media outlets, and on panels• Managing content on Muslim Link's Website, Facebook Page, and Twitter Feed• Organizing events and workshops to promote Muslim Link's mission to be a community-builder within Canada's Muslim and Non-Muslim communities• Liaising with the owner of Muslim Link on issues related to financial viability of the publication• Supporting the owner of Muslim Link in the development and implementation of a viable Business Plan

SPEAKER: Fighting Islamophobia 101 in partnership with Professor Corrie Scott (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, 2019)WORKSHOP: I SEE YOU: Storytelling as Community Care for Muslim Creatives (NCCM, Toronto, 2019)SPEAKER: Life After Suicide and Living with Mental Illness (London Muslim Mosque, London, ON, 2019)SPEAKER: Why Do Muslims Die By Suicide? (Annual Muslim Mental Health Conference, Toronto, ON, 2018)FACILITATOR: Islamophobia in Progressive Spaces Discussion (Octopus Books, Ottawa, ON, 2018)SPEAKER: Anti-Black Hate Incidents in Statistics Canada Annual Report on Hate Crimes (NCCM Parliamentary Press Conference, Ottawa, 2017)SPEAKER: Mental Health-Start the Conversation (Islamic Foundation of Toronto, Toronto, 2017)SPEAKER: Loneliness & Zombies (TEDxYouth Nepean, Ottawa, 2016)WORKSHOP: Anti-Oppression in the Context of Community Radio (National Community Radio Association Board, Ottawa, 2016)

My position involved working with the Diversity and Race Relations Section of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS). I coordinated the activities of the Community Police Action Committee (COMPAC). COMPAC is an Advisory Committee which assists the OPS to achieve the goals of providing just and equitable service for racialized and Indigenous communities in Ottawa, building trust between the Police and racialized and Indigenous communities, and addressing on-going and historic diversity and race relations issues which arise between the community and the Police. Responsibilities:• Advising community members of COMPAC on emerging issues with the intention of ensuring public safety and avoiding any escalation of conflict situations• Coordinating debriefing and discussions within the community member network to contribute to the COMPAC agenda and priorities.• Assisting with the recruitment of new COMPAC Community Members by outreaching in Ottawa’s diverse racialized and Indigenous Communities• Assisting the COMPAC co-chairs in maintaining membership accountability in terms of participation, attendance and contributions• Assisting the community members of COMPAC to increase the community participation in COMPAC through outreach efforts, including but not limited to: placing advertisements in appropriate directories and publications, information tables at events, organizing a response to requests for speakers• Assisting the community members of COMPAC to advocate on issues from individuals and the community to the Police.• Taking notes during meetings in order to produce minutes and action reports• Circulating minutes, agendas and meeting notices to COMPAC members• Organizing meetings, including reserving meeting space, ordering refreshments

I authored this report based off of discussions and recommendations made during the Addressing Anti-Black Racism Forum in August 2016. I spearheaded the organizing and visioning of this forum and was then commissioned to write a report about the event by the Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership (OLIP), one of the organizations that sponsored this event in partnership with the City for All Women Initiative.Jim Watson, the Mayor of Ottawa, spoke at the report's launch at City Hall.

City for All Women Initiative (CAWI) is an organization of women from diverse communities, organizations, and universities working with city decision makers and community leaders to create a more inclusive city and advance gender equality.City for All Women Initiative (CAWI) is working with two community agencies to adapt the City of Ottawa Equity and Inclusion Handbook for community use.Responsibilities:• Co-design, prepare and facilitate training for Somerset-West Community Health Centre staff and Board• Prepare and provide coaching to centre Board and staff• Developed a series of online resource lists to enable people to learn more about the realities of various marginalized communities including Indigenous Communities, Immigrant Communities, LGBTQ Communities, People living with disabilities, etc

WORKSHOP: Anti-Oppression in the Context of Community Radio (National Community Radio Association Board, Ottawa, 2012, 2014, 2015)FACILITATED DISCUSSION: Islamophobia & Muslim Workers (Canadian Union of Public Employees/CUPE, Ottawa, 2015)WORKSHOP: Anti-Oppression 101 for Youth (YOUCAN Connect Employment Program, Ottawa, 2013)EDUCATIONAL SESSION: Sharing Our Truth- Indigenous Youth and Refugee Youth in Solidarity Through Spoken Word (KAIROS Covenant Chain Link III, Ottawa, 2012)WORKSHOP: Women’s Action Forum in Celebration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (City for All Women/CAWI, Ottawa, 2012)WORKSHOP: Citizen Journalism (Engineers Without Borders Conference, Ottawa, 2012)WORKSHOP: Girls and Cyberbullying: What's with all the Violence? (Teachers' Union Education Sessions Organized by Renfrew County District School Board Teachers, Renfrew, 2011)WORKSHOP: What the Jersey Shore Can Teach You about Love (In Love and... In Danger Organized by Family Services Ottawa, Ottawa, 2011)EDUCATIONAL SESSION: First Voice of Muslim Youth Provincial Election Civic Engagement Session (Organized in partnership with local Somali Canadian Muslim youth and Ontario Provincial Candidates, Ottawa, 2011)WORKSHOP: Oral History as a Tool for Social Change in Multicultural Classrooms (Developing a Global Perspective for Educators Winter Institute, University of Ottawa Faculty of Education, Ottawa, 2011)WORKSHOP: Introduction to Anti-Racism (Ethno-Cultural Youth Advisory Committee Training, Youth Services Bureau, Ottawa, 2009)GUIDED WALKING TOUR: Communities Not Ghettos (Citizenship in the City: Exploring the Kind of Problem a City Is, Trudeau Foundation Conference, Ottawa, 2009)

My position involves preparing lesson plans in order to increase awareness among 100 girls at five local high schools, aged 14 to 19, from immigrant, refugee and visible minority backgrounds about issues such as healthy body image, healthy relationships, self-respect, and assertiveness in a youth friendly and culturally appropriate environment. My position also involves referring girls to the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre (ORCC) or other service providers if needed. I liaise with multicultural liaison officers, youth workers. school administration, and community services in order to meet these girls’ needs. Due to the sensitivity of working in this field, I must adhere to ORCC’s Client Confidentiality Policy. My position involves facilitation of workshops and staff trainings, writing reports, developing hand-outs and creating evaluation tools. I successfully wrote a proposal to get funding to develop a workshop for the 2011 Women's Worlds Conference based on ORCC's work with Girls' Chat.Responsibilities:• Facilitating Girls’ Chat sessions in five local high schools• Facilitating Girls’ Chat’s Two-Week Summer Program• Referring girls to the ORCC or other service providers if needed• Writing progress reports and small project funding proposals • Developing evaluation tools for the program• Producing, Directing, and Co-Editing a promotional video about Girls' Chat

My position involves working with the United Nations Association in Canada (UNA-Canada) on their diversity education project titled Multiculturalism & Multimedia (M&M). Building on its diversity research findings on barriers created and perpetuated by the media in Canada that can limit full participation in society for some groups, UNA-Canada launched this project to address realities and challenges faced by ethno-cultural/racial minorities in all levels of Canadian media. It aims to increase the capacity and willingness of ethno-cultural/racial minority youth and their communities, to access, engage and work effectively with and within the Canadian media. As well, the project aims to the capacity and interest of Canadian media and post-secondary institutions to produce representative and inclusive media.Responsibilities:• Identifying ethno-cultural/racial minority communities, high schools, media outlets, and related non-government organizations (NGOs) to participate in project activities• Organizing local networking events around the project• Compiling lessons learned in implementing M&M in the targeted region to be shared with other Regional Coordinators and stakeholders as needed• Supporting project interns during their 6-week internships and working with them to develop workshops to share their experiences with other ethno-cultural/ racial minority youth interested in careers in multimedia• Identifying professionals with established careers within Canadian multimedia organizations to mentor project interns• Hiring and supervising photographers and videographers to cover local networking events

My position involved working with Making Ottawa Safer Together (MOST) as Project Coordinator. MOST is an organization committed to encouraging the civic engagement and mobilization of Ottawa’s immigrant and visible minority communities. MOST began as a project of Catholic Immigration Centre in partnership with Local Agencies Serving Immigrants (LASI) in 2004. I have been a volunteer with the organization since 2006 and began working for MOST in 2008. MOST focuses on combatting discrimination against immigrants and visible minorities in the areas of 1) Media Representation 2) Policing 3) Schooling.Responsibilities:• Coordinating events, including the MOST AGM, Community Forums and Strategic Planning Sessions• Working with members of Ottawa’s Immigrant, Refugee and Visible Minority Communities on issues related to civic engagement• Supporting the board of directors in the operations of the organization• Developing and writing proposals• Writing reports for project fundersSpeaking for Ourselves Project Coordination• Writing two successful proposals to the City of Ottawa and Crime Prevention Ottawa to fund an project connecting Immigrant, Refugee and Visible Minority youth with local Spoken Word Artists for a 20-week Program aimed at developing the youth’s literacy skills through the writing and performance of Spoken Word Poetry• Establishing connections with Ottawa’s Spoken Word Artist community• Recruiting and supervising 7 Project Facilitators for the 4 Project Streams (All Girls, All Boys, Francophone, and English as a Second Language)• Creating partnerships with local schools and community centres in order to provide space for the project and recommend project participants• Supporting over 40 youth participants up to their graduation from the project• Managing Project Budgets• Writing Progress and Final Reports to the funders

My position involved tutoring students, ages 7 to14, in a multicultural, low-income housing community. My responsibilities involved outreaching to parents and students to encourage them to participate in the program, liaising with school staff regarding children with serious academic or social needs, recruiting volunteers to provide additional support to students, organizing field trips for students, and maintaining attendance records and monthly statistics.

My position involved designing a workshop for parents of children aged 6 to 12 who live in Ottawa's Social Housing Communities. The goal of the workshop was to inform them about resources in their communities that could support the healthy development of their children, with a focus on addressing risk factors of youth crime. The workshop was designed on behalf of the Coalition of Community Health and Resource Centres of Ottawa. I facilitated the workshop in English and French in 12 communities across the City of Ottawa. I designed evaluation tools for participants of the workshop and wrote a final report.I had the opportunity also to co-facilitate this workshop for Spanish-Speaking, Somali-Speaking, Arabic-Speaking, and Farsi-Speaking Communities.

PANEL: “Organizing Among Diverse Groups of Women Today – 21st century challenges for feminism” (May 6, 2007) Ottawa, Plenary for the Women Resisting Poverty & Exclusion Forum Organized by Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) PANEL: “Muslim Women at Work: Challenges and Successes” (February 9, 2007) Montreal, McGill University Career and Placement Services Panel Discussion Organized by McGill University’s Career and Placement Services, the Muslim Student Association and the Centre for Research and Teaching on Women.WORKSHOP: Working with Muslim Girls and Young Women (Member Retreat, Girls' Action Foundation, Montreal, QC, 2006)WORKSHOP: Anti-Oppression and Anti-Racism from a Feminist Perspective (Staff Training, Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre, Ottawa, ON, 2006)WORKSHOP: Anti-Oppression for the Youth Environmental Movement (Green Justice Retreat, Youth Environmental Network, Saskatoon, SK, 2005)WORKSHOP: Islamophobia: A Challenge for the Anti-Racism Movement (National Youth Anti-Racism Network Launch, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Edmonton, AB, 2005)WORKSHOP: Challenging Racism in the Environmental Movement (Youth Action Gathering, Sierra Youth Coalition, Ottawa, ON, 2004)WORKSHOP: Lights, Camera, Anti-Racism! Using Popular Theatre to Confront Racism (RUCKUS 2003, Youth Action Network, Toronto, ON, 2003)