Laraib Asdaf Chaudhry Email & Phone Number

Milton, Ontario, Canada

• Founder and manager of the digital archive collection (purana_pakistan) on Instagram with over 150,000 followers.
• Research, verify, and source content for posts that focus on the social history and culture of Pakistan.
• Co-hosted the annual exhibition "Humara Watan" at Line Green Visual Arts Space in collaboration with Alina Akbar (Line Green) and Mahhad Nayyer (Travel Names).
• Moderated talks for Dastaangoi Gallery and the WOW (Women of the World) Festival.
• Wrote a feature on Karachi's social history for The Karachi Collective.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

• Recruited schools for the purpose of the field study.
• Trained in the IDELA (International Development and Early Learning Assessment), AKT (Affect Knowledge Test) and ECERS (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale) to conduct the research.
• Used Qualtrics to record and organize the data online.
• Visited 15+ schools across Karachi at different time points to collect the data.

Thetar Village

• Aligned 12 year old students with the demands of the recently adopted Aga Khan University Education Board (AKU-EB)
• Developed an ESL (English as a Second Language) curriculum from scratch.
• Enabled students with minimal prior knowledge of English to understand the language well and communicate in prose.
• Paced the program in accordance with student needs.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

• Researched and developed slide-packs relating to different testing methods to advise the various curriculum development teams across TCF’s flagship department.
• Translated 8th grade science textbooks from English to Urdu to align them with Pakistan’s Single National Curriculum.
• Conducted workshops for curriculum development teams.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Tolanna Magazine is University of Toronto’s first South Asian women’s annual magazine.
• Oversaw and edited all submissions for the magazine’s publication.
• Contributed as a writer for the magazine as well.

Virtual

• Chosen from a pool of over 100 applicants for the Stanford led South Asian Winter Camp.
• Co-designed a curriculum from scratch for the history course- Introduction to Subcontinental Studies.
• Taught the course to a class of 20 students on Zoom- the students were aged 14-18 from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Kashmir.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Worked with a team of 5 House Council Members to organize events for the students of Loretto College.
• Arranged the food menus for the formal dinners that cater to the Sisters of the Mary Ward Centre and the Deans of Loretto College along with its 120 students.
• Worked closely with the kitchen staff for all events and ensured that the events ran smoothly.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Incorporated conversational skills and phoned the alumni and the friends of the University of Toronto for various fundraising campaigns.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Worked with the Internal Audit Department, representing KPMG in the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).
• Gave consultation to the Internal Auditing team in LUMS in regard to their project with the registrar.
• Compared policies implemented by the University of Toronto with those implemented by LUMS and suggested the CR/NR system to LUMS; which they have now brought into their policies.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

• Troupe member for South Asia’s first all-female improvisational group (founded by Faiza Saleem)
• Performed improvisational comedy in many cities of Pakistan such as Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rahim Yar Khan, and Topi.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

• Initiated the project to literate more than 40 domestic staff members of Cedar College and inducted 4 other members for the executive team.
• Joined hands with 'Literate Pakistan' in order to draft the curriculum.
• Formulated the structure of the literacy society from scratch.
• Carried out over 100 interviews to create a team of 15 teachers and 15 curriculum managers.
• The society is still present and running in Cedar College, Karachi.