Dr. Maryam Nabavi (PhD, 2012) an Iranian settler living at the base of the mountains of the unceded and ancestral lands of the Squamish and Tsleil-Wauthus Peoples, as well as in the borderlands of migration, race, gender and inclusion/exclusion. After completing her PhD in Educational Studies in 2012, which was a Cultural Studies look at identities and identifications of young immigrants and its impacts on notions of citizenship, she worked as a Post-doctoral Teaching and Learning Fellow at UBC and later at a national social policy research organization to advance policies for Canadians to whom social structures offer least. Her work centrally orbits a commitment to working toward equity through strategic, innovative and leadership-driven engagement. She works as a Faculty & Staff Strategist with the Equity & Inclusion Office at UBC, where she has successfully shepherded institution-wide change initiatives situated at the nexus of policies, systems of accountability and culture change in service of advancing equity, inclusion and integrative anti-racism. Maryam is trained and holds certificates a variety of approaches for advancing organizational change processes, including conflict engagement, coaching, facilitation tools and frameworks.
Faculty & Staff Strategist with the Equity & Inclusion Office at UBC Faculty & Staff Strategist with the Equity & Inclusion Office at UBC
