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PhD (ABD), Policy Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University

Binish Ahmed (she/her) is a PhD Candidate (ABD) at the Toronto Metropolitan University. She received her MA in Public Policy from Brock University, and a BA Hon. with a major in Political Science, and double minors in History and South Asian Studies from University of Toronto (St George.) Twitter @binishahmed / www.binishahmed.com

Her writings have appeared in the Indigenous Policy Journal, Critical Policy Studies Journal, Room Magazine, Feral Feminisms Journal, Rabble, Himalaya journal, UppingTheAnti, The Conversation, among other places. She works as a researcher, writer, educator, community connector, and artist. She is an organizer with Kashmir Gulposh, a transnational collective dedicated to peace and security in Kashmir. She is also the host of 'Azaadi Now', a show dedicated to Indigenous resurgence globally.

Topics her scholarship has intersected include Indigenous self-government, self-determination, settler colonialism, decolonization, reconciliation, transnational and post-colonial feminism, secularism, racialization, anti-Muslim racism/Islamophobia, nationalism, multiculturalism, immigration, migration, immigrant and refugee settlement and retention.

Her scholarship examines governance and policy issues critically at the municipal, provincial, trans-/national, as well international level, and places policy issues and questions within a multi-level governance framework.

Binish has taught at the Politics Department at Brock University and at the Toronto Metropolitan University’s Departments of Politics and Public Administration, Urban and Regional Planning, and Sociology.

Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, she currently lives and works in Tkaronto, the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant territory, homelands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Mississaugas, Huron-Wendat, Petún First Nations and the Métis.

Experience

  • –present
    PhD Candidate, Ryerson University

Education

  •  
    Ryerson University, Policy Studies

Honours

Rotaract Civic Leadership and Volunteerism Award, Graduate Spirit of Brock Medal, Graduate Fellowship at Brock University, Graduate Fellowships at Toronto Metropolitan University