Zuhra Abawi is an assistant professor of education at Niagara University Ontario. She is the author of The Effectiveness of Educational Policy for Bias Free Hiring: Critical Insights to Enhance Diversity in the Canadian Teacher Workforce (2021), and co-editor of Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care (2021) and Enacting Anti-Racist and Activist Pedagogies in Education: Canadian Perspectives (2023). Her work focuses on that discourses of race, equity and identity are negotiated, mediated and socialized in education.